Netflix added the Jason Statham action-drama Homefront on Jan. 18. Which may not bounce out at you as massive information, until you’re one of many presumably hundreds of thousands of viewers catapulting it to the highest of Netflix’s most-watched within the U.S. charts.
As of Tuesday, Jan. 26, it was the third most-watched title on Netflix throughout the whole thing of Netflix. By the next day, it had proven robust maintain and solely dipped to fourth place.
The movie appears, normally, to be way more widespread than different movies launched across the similar time to comparable ranges of field workplace success. Launched all the best way again in 2013, the movie solely grossed a good $51 million in opposition to a $22 million price range. So what’s happening right here?
Is ‘Homefront’ quietly changing into a cult hit?
The probably offender right here is that word-of-mouth has allowed Homefront to search out an viewers through the years. That is mirrored on Rotten Tomatoes, the place the movie has solely a 40% optimistic score from critics, however 61% from audiences.
Whereas solely anecdotal primarily based on the author’s opinion, Forbes‘ personal Scott Mendelson notes that Homefront is perhaps amongst Statham’s most underrated movies. Primarily reviewing it over 7 years later, Mendelson praised the movie’s robust emotional beats and character-driven focus, which he attributed to a script from none apart from Sylvester Stallone. He additionally famous that the forged is surprisingly robust in comparison with comparable action movies, that includes James Franco, Winona Ryder, Clancy Brown, and Frank Grillo.

Supporting this notion, We Acquired This Lined corralled a smattering of tweets concerning the movie’s current look on Netflix. They’re a bit too imprecise to get an actual sense of what’s attracting audiences, however they do usually be aware how good they suppose it’s.
Directed by Gary Fleder (Kiss the Ladies), Homefront follows Statham as an ex-DEA agent and single father who strikes to a small city after his cowl is blown on a job. Following an altercation at his daughter’s faculty, he turns into the goal of an area meth kingpin (Franco) and should defend his daughter and residential from a siege in a basic house invasion situation.
Netflix can generally see success from unlikely locationsBasically, plainly Netflix tends to provide a second shot on the limelight to forgotten movies like Homefront, as long as they boast recognizable stars. On Wednesday, Jan. 27, the one movie extra seen on the platform was The Subsequent Three Days, a equally dismissed Russell Crowe-Liam Neeson thriller from 2010.

In case you take note of the High 10 rankings that Netflix updates day by day, you’ll discover a entire host of seemingly random movies from the final 15-or-so years gaining main traction. Whereas their tepid important reactions upon preliminary launch might need been sufficient to maintain audiences from driving a number of miles and paying an arm and a leg to see them in theaters, on Netflix, the barrier to entry is nearly non-existent. Why not, then, throw on a random Jason Statham joint like Homefront and see if it hooks you on a lazy night time in?

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