Netflix Top 10 Hit
Netflix has just released their Top 10 list for the week of August 3 – August 9 and the new sci-fi thriller The Last House became a big hit for the streaming platform. According to their new bulletin, the Greta Lee and Wagner Moura movie made number one of the English film list with 27.5 million views. The thriller is a high-concept, Twilight Zone-esque movie from the writer of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, where a family finds themselves sealed inside their own home and starts fighting to survive once their resources are running low.
Kevin Hart’s new comedy, 72 Hours, would make the second spot in the ranking with 11.1 million views. In 72 Hours, Kevin Hart plays a “a 40-year-old executive who hopes to save his flailing career by joining a group of twentysomethings on a wild three-day bachelor party, after he’s inadvertently added to their group text.” The movie falls under a partnership where Sony Pictures will offer the project to Netflix as part of a first-look streaming deal.
What did we think of The Last House?
Our Alex Maidy had his own nightmare to contend with while watching the film as he was not a fan of it. However, his opinion would improve at the movie went along and he would end up giving the movie a 5/10. In his review, he said, “I would have been far more disappointed after watching The Last House if I had seen it theatrically, but this is a perfect example of the type of movie that works better on Netflix than on the big screen. Both Wagner Moura and Greta Lee show both the worst and the best of their acting, sometimes in the same scene. I started out hating this movie, but came around to the concept as it built the limited world of the family’s imprisonment in their own home before turning into something bigger. It does not go where I had hoped it would, and it ends up hitting the familiar notes of the post-apocalyptic genre without really giving us much of an explanation for how or why things happen. The Last House will surely find an audience looking for a decent streaming alternative, but it does not earn the twist that it thinks is more creative than it actually is.”
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