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    2024’s Love-It-or-Hate-It Christmas Motion Film Someway Nonetheless Defying Its 30% Rotten Tomatoes Rating on Streaming

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    2024’s Love-It-or-Hate-It Christmas Motion Film Someway Nonetheless Defying Its 30% Rotten Tomatoes Rating on Streaming


    Prime Video took a large gamble with their 2024 Christmas movie, Crimson One, spending a reported $250 million on the yuletide action-flick. The film stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Callum Drift, head of safety on the North Pole, who should got down to observe down Santa Claus (J.Okay. Simmons) when he is kidnapped proper earlier than Christmas. To take action, he should enlist the elite hacker and (forgive us whereas we attempt to not cringe when scripting this) “Degree 4 Naughty Lister,” Jack O’Malley, performed by Chris Evans. The film flopped in theaters, grossing slightly below $100 million worldwide. However, whereas Crimson One was instantly added to the field workplace naughty listing, it is nonetheless drawing in viewers on streaming.

    As of the time of writing, over two weeks after Christmas Day, Crimson One nonetheless sits on the quantity 3 spot on Prime Video’s high 10 hottest motion pictures of the week. Regardless of the poor critiques — Crimson One presently sits at 30% on Rotten Tomatoes — the film has received over many viewers, with a 90% viewers ranking on the overview mixture web site. MovieWeb’s personal Julian Roman loved their viewing expertise, ranking the movie 3/5. “Crimson One presents a surprisingly intelligent tackle Christmas mythology,” they wrote of their overview. “The large-budget action-comedy delivers the requisite popcorn leisure with visible splendor, but additionally succeeds in constructing its personal new universe with really memorable characters.”

    Regardless of every part working towards it, Crimson One has been a significant streaming success for Prime Video. In addition to overstaying its welcome past the vacation interval, the film additionally smashed a significant streaming report for Prime. Crimson One is now Amazon MGM Studio’s greatest ever opening on Prime Video. The movie was watched by “over 50 million worldwide viewers” throughout its first 4 days on the streamer.

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    Will ‘Crimson One’ Get a Sequel?

    Movies cannot simply be standalone experiences anymore, and Crimson One tried to proceed that pattern. Regardless of its self-contained story of a harmful mission to rescue Santa from the evil witch Gryla (Kiernan Shipka), Crimson One additionally tried laying the groundwork for a brand new cinematic universe. When Jack is taken to the North Pole for interrogation, he stumbles throughout a number of folkloric figures regarding well-liked holidays, together with a residing Jack-o’-lantern and the Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hole, teasing a wider world of tales. Whereas it would not overtly tease a sequel, the ending of Crimson One leaves issues open-ended sufficient for Callum and Jack to return for one more buddy-cop journey.

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    As of the time of writing, Crimson One 2 (or Crimson Two?) hasn’t been formally greenlit by Amazon MGM Studio. There’s some doubt round whether or not the movie will obtain a sequel. Regardless of its immense streaming success, and being an enormous hit with basic audiences, the lackluster vital reception and extremely poor field workplace efficiency (particularly in relation to its finances) may need landed Crimson Two a everlasting place on the naughty listing.



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