Author: Jonathan Klotz | Published
Streaming has pushed the unlikeliest of movies to the top of the charts this holiday season, a Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans flick red number onehas just been a big hit at the box office and has remained #1 on Amazon since its release, while Jack Black’s Satan’s Christmas movie, Dear Santa Clausis shaping up to be one of Paramount+’s biggest hits ever. Their match is continue, The airport thriller premiered on Netflix on December 13 and has since become the most popular movie on the world’s most popular streaming service every day.
Simple and predictable, but tons of fun
continue The plot is simple, but that’s part of the charm. Taron Egerton has played Robin Hood and Elton John, but here he’s Ethan, a TSA officer at LAX who becomes the target of the traveler, the evil Jason Bateman. The travelers used blackmail and threats of violence against Ethan’s girlfriend to force the officer to release a specific piece of luggage. It’s not a spoiler to reveal that the bag goes through it, yes, it’s a deadly weapon, but there’s still half the movie left.
Ethan is forced to make a series of moral decisions when he learns that he will go to great lengths to protect his friends and family. Complicating the situation is the Traveler’s network of agents, which includes equally sensitive observers, led by sons of anarchy Theo Rossi, like Uatu from the Marvel comics, can’t help but interfere. Dean Norris, who plays a TSA agent, shows up and then bodies start falling continue It ended up racking up a surprisingly impressive number of kills before all was said and done.
Types of movies you won’t find in movie theaters
While watching the movie, I couldn’t help but think back to airplane thrillers with the same theme, red eyethis also took a crazy turn. continue is cut from the same cloth, but today, it stands out as a film that was otherwise buried in theaters but is thriving on streaming. For decades, theaters have been flooded with thrillers like this one, mid-budget films with an interesting premise and some big-name stars who were more focused on having a good time than Oscar bait or building a shared universe.
that’s why continue So refreshing and why it’s resonated so strongly with audiences over the past two weeks. You can light a fire, enjoy it for 2 hours and then the story is over. With the exception of a handful of B-movies that are still widely released each year, this type of moviegoing experience is mostly priced out of theaters, but they thrive on streaming and in the comfort of home.
The budget is $47 million, one-fifth of the current budget red number one, continue It exceeded even the most optimistic pre-launch expectations. Critics loved it, with an 87% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, although the public score was only 53%, but that may just be because a lot of the public these days expect big-budget spectacle from every movie, and forget that. a little. It’s predictable and the acting is entirely adequate, but it’s also the most popular movie in the world right now.
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