Another failed attempt?
Netflix is trying, bringing together superstars and stacking huge budgets, but the results are awaited for the moment. In fact, it will not have escaped anyone that Netflix is trying to establish “its” action-spy franchise, a very popular genre and dominated in cinema by franchises MEDIUM AND 007.
There was then in 2021 Red alert, action film that brought together Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot and Dwayne Johnson. A first sequel is in production, with the same cast, and although it remains the most watched Netflix original film on the platform to this day, audience expectations for this sequel appear limited.
Then there was 2022 The gray man, directed by the Russo brothers with Ryan Gosling as a CIA assassin who goes one against all. A sequel is also planned, despite a rather cool critical reception. That’s the trend gloomyand it’s not Agent Stone with Gal Gadot supposed to reverse it…
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Agent Stone gets a brutal score on Rotten Tomatoes
The new Netflix production of its kind, Agent Stone, airs worldwide from 11 August. And despite some pleasant action sequences and the presence of the Israeli-American star, Tom Harper’s film (Wild rose, The Aeronauts), did not convince the American critics at all. Indeed, Agent Stone salt the ratings and reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes A Pomodorometer at 30%is one audience score at 61%.
To confront, Red alert had gotten to Pomodorometer has 37%AND The gray man a measure a 45%…
The reproaches are legion: no originality, extreme predictability of the scenario, soft inspiration of the saga MEDIUMcharacters without any substance… At best anecdotal, Agent Stone it seems doomed to immediate oblivion. So, on the side of RogerEbert. comwe can read:
An overcalibrated hodgepodge of his best films, absolutely devoid of originality or identity of their own, populated by generic characters, and put into pictures with an uninspired realization.
Of particular note is the punchline posted by Calum Marsh from New York Times :
If Tom Cruise is trying to save movies, as is often said of him, he’s trying to save us from these kinds of movies.
Michael Phillips of Grandstand Chicago he finds a comparison as amusing as it is violent:
“Agent Stone” plays as a dutiful and tired undercover agent, far in the background, while you watch something else on your computer.
As for the San Francisco Chronicle, it simply states: “I hope this isn’t the start of a spy franchise“. A recommendation that could reach the ears of Netflix? Nothing less certain…
Source: Cine Serie
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