Good cast, but netflix movies suck
Will it be any good since this is a netflix movie? Cast looks pretty good though
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Yeah.... Netflix films are weird. Good cast, good production values even for sci fi flicks - but horrible, throw away scripts with poor directing. It happens pretty much every single time. They could have hit after hit on their hands if they hired decent writers and directors.
sharefully agreed, it's actually a miracle how they mess up every time
shareLooks very interesting.
There are plenty of good and a few VERY good NETFLIX movies.
My favorite is The Highwaymen.
I Am Mother, was very good too.
What Happened To Monday. Very Goood.
There's more. I'm just lazy.
Nah, you’re just too easily satisfied. Netflix makes McMovies. Celluloid spam.
sharehehe so true
shareHow are they easily satisfied just because they have a different opinion than you? it truly says a lot that you take it upon yourself to come on here to belittle someone elses opinion on a movie of all things. It's a movie. You didn't like it, someone else did. We should leave it at that instead of engaging in these pointless arguments.
sharethere have been several netflix films that are good. you guys just get on here and complain about anything because your lives are miserable. bunch of no pussy getting losers
shareSome Netflix movies are good, but this one does suck.
shareThe cast is probably the biggest problem with the movie. Ryan is doing he same thing he did in Deadpool and The Hitman's Bodyguard, wise cracking throughout the movie even when it doesn't make sense to be doing it.... Then you ahve Dwayne who is playing the same character he always plays. Gal, is well... just annoyingly bad in the movie.
The story isn't complete shit, it could have been reasonably decent but the actors kill it.
Ah, we'll skip then. Thx for saving me some time.
shareNo problem... I wish I could have stopped about half way through it but the wife wanted to finish it... of course when it was over she was like, "that wasn't very good was it"... Which is funny because I pretty much figured that out 30 minutes into it.
shareSo it automatically sucks to you because its a Netflix movie? that's ridiculous. I just watched this and I thought it was hilarious, and the action was very good too. Not to mention the twists.
shareNo...there is something going on here. Its not good, but its understandable.
Johnson, Reynolds, and more recently , Gadot, all managed to achieve "real" movie stardom at theaters in the past ten years. They look like movie stars.. And Johnson's worldwide grosses(in generally not-good films) make him the current highest earner in movies. So...they are all major stars.
But if I understand this correctly, Netflix can lure those stars to this project -- and OTHER major stars to OTHER projects(like Sandra Bullock and Will Smith and Adam Sandler) ...by paying them incredible sums of money for the work. Red Notice has a $200 million budget -- you want to bet about $60 million of it went to the three stars?
These stars DON'T get the back end grosses that movie theater box office can give you(and that can't be planned for) but I've read that their agents thus demand even more money "up front."
But for all of this -- no, not much in the way of great scripts or great movies have come out of Netflix productions to date.
There has been no "Godfather" out of Netflix. No "Lawrence of Arabia." No "Exorcist" or "Jaws" or "Star Wars."
For my money, Scorsese gave them the closest to a classic with "The Irishman," but even that one LOOKS like a Netflix movie -- all sheeny-shiny and overlit and HD perfect. Probably unavoidable. You can't make a movie with that grainy, gritty 60s/70s look and project it on Netflix. (I did like the weird "tan beige" tint to the scene where Pacino has lunch with the mob guy who's late.)
Aaron Sorkin's "Trial of the Chicago 7" was supposed to go to theaters exclusively but got a Netflix release. It feels like 'real movie," but it still has that Netflix look. The problem is, ultimately, with the Aaron Sorkin script -- he's a true "writer auteur" who now directs, too, but what's fast and funny (and dramatic) slowly falls apart at the end. (A cute and charming Tom Hayden gets THAT guy wrong -- even fellow radicals didn't like him.)
Fascinating...However I still think this was a entertaining movie. Maybe Netflix did Pay those top 3 actors a lot of money, but hey. They made the best of it with what they had left over to surround those actors with quality enough supporting actors to put together a solid story.
That's all I could ever ask for from a movie to keep my interest. Can't wait for the sequel.
That's a great review. Its good to enjoy a movie you like.
I haven't seen it - I'll probably watch it.
I suppose I will revise my "screed" just a little bit and suggest that the concern being raised about these Netflix movies is that the stars "go for the money," and not much for the script as something all that important to care about. Unless the Netflix movie in question is legitimate Oscar bait: that one about marriage last year.
The bigger problem -- and maybe its not even a problem -- is one that Steven Spielberg raised(except I think now he has a Netflix deal.)
These movies are...on television. That's where most people see them. You can't have a Godfather or an Exorcist or a Jaws or a Star Wars if there are no "lines around the block."
But you CAN have a "Roots" or "Lonesome Dove" or "final episode of MASH" where everybody's watching their TVS.
We are in a new age.