Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s career has been defined by movies that resemble AI-generated parodies, although few have been quite as aggressively mediocre as Red One, which hits theaters Nov. 15. A big-budget,

Kris Kringle, played by J.K. Simmons as a push-up-obsessed gym rat, is kidnapped after a freelance hacker named Jack (Evans) inadvertently reveals the location of the North Pole to an evildoer.

Red One offers Christmas-branded synergy for Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, with little room for invention or genuine good cheer.

Red One may not be as terrible as many have expected it to be, thanks to some charming moments, but is still largely a holly-jolly misfire.

Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans wish you a very bro Christmas with “Red One,” full of slap fights, he-man snowmen and one jacked Santa. Director Jake Kasdan’s yuletide fantasy adventure (★★ out of four;