I’m laid up with an injury so instead of walking to the park to watch fireworks, my wife and I watched a movie called “Carry-On.” Jason Bateman plays a badass bad guy who’s been paid to smuggle a chemical bomb onto an L.A. to D.C. airplane. The protagonist is a TSA guy who Bateman blackmails into ignoring the nerve gas bomb in a carry-on, as it passes through the TSA guy’s security station.
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Besides Bateman’s casting as a badass and the rest of the movie being ridiculous, I focused on the final act’s silliness. Bateman was trying to put his carry-on (the title of the movie) into the overhead bin. It didn’t fit. Throughout this movie, Jason Bateman is Jason Bourne with his MacGyver skills, fixing every problem with his metal duct tape. He knows everything about everything. He has the ability to improvise on the