Netflix reveals its biggest movie opening of 2024, which has just been released

On By Littum

With just two weeks until the new year, Netflix has found its biggest original movie hit of all of 2024. That would be the new movie, Carry-On, a thriller starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman.

Netflix has just revealed that the film has received 42 million viewsobviously the most watched film of the week, but also its biggest film opening of the whole year with those numbers.

The thriller stars Egerton as a TSA agent blackmailed by Bateman’s mysterious “Traveler” into letting a dangerous package through airport security, and Egerton must figure out how to stop the plot while keeping his girlfriend alive.

The film has been reviewed well with critics, with 84% on Rotten tomatoes. It has a much worse 58% audience score, but after watching the movie, I really don’t get it at all. It’s really good, a claustrophobic, original thriller that we rarely see these days, and certainly not that solid. Egerton and Bateman are both fantastic in this, and who knew Michael Bluth could be this level of menacing? Great work all around, and all this from the director of… Black Adam? Well, he did a great job here.

So if the film is at this level of success, will we see a Carry-On 2? Spoilers follow for the movie, come back now if you haven’t seen it. And you should definitely see it.

This certainly didn’t seem like a film designed to have a sequel. It’s not based on some sort of book series, so there won’t be more source material. The film ends with Egerton’s Ethan saving the day and preventing the nerve gas attack. There is then a time jump showing him with his new baby and the revelation that he is now a police officer. Meanwhile, Bateman’s Traveler is melted by his own nerve gas, so he’s definitely not coming back. However, there are other members of his team who survived, like the goth girl who gave Ethan the earlobe we see again near the end.

Of course, given that Ethan is a cop now, he could go on to stop more crimes in another movie, but “Carry-On 2” certainly wouldn’t be about … another bomb in another carry-on, right? I mean, it’s kind of a one and done. But you can’t call it anything else. Ultimately, despite it being a huge hit, I’d be a little surprised if they made a sequel regardless.

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