Gerard Butler proves that he’s by far one of the vital well-liked motion heroes as soon as once more, with a deeply divisive effort shortly taking on streaming. This motion spy thriller, which finds Butler starring as a CIA agent caught behind enemy traces, is now dominating 
Netflix after changing into out there on the streamer over the weekend.
Launched again in 2023, the motion thriller Kandahar finds Butler becoming a member of forces with Greenland and Night time Has Fallen filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh, who directs from a script written by Mitchell LaFortune. Starring Gerard Butler alongside Ali Fazal, Navid Negahban, Bahador Foladi, Nina Toussaint-White, Tom Rhys Harries, Vassilis Koukalani, Mark Arnold, Corey Johnson, and Travis Fimmel, Kandahar is now ranked #1 on the Netflix High 10 within the U.S., having shortly knocked the likes of KPop Demon Hunters and Blissful Gilmore 2 down a peg.
Whereas Butler continues to be a charismatic presence, Kandahar was met with a divisive response upon launch. The motion outing holds a rating of simply 45% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus studying, “Gerard Butler stays a sturdy display presence, however even for hardcore motion followers, Kandahar is hardly value watching.” Nonetheless, audiences couldn’t have felt extra completely different, awarding Kandahar a powerful 82% and concluding, “If you happen to’re searching for a lot of motion, a narrative that retains you guessing, and extra of Gerard Butler doing what he does finest, Kandahar delivers.” You may take a look at Kandahar’s official synopsis beneath.
“An undercover CIA operative will get caught in hostile territory in Afghanistan after his mission is uncovered. Accompanied by his translator, he should battle enemy combatants as he tries to achieve an extraction level in Kandahar.”
Gerard Butler & Ric Roman Waugh Have A number of Extra Motion Tasks within the Pipeline
Gerard Butler and Ric Roman Waugh are all set to reunite for the long-awaited sequel, Greenland: Migration, which has lastly been given a launch date. Whereas the primary Greenland, launched in 2020, was a survival catastrophe film, audiences will delve into the post-apocalyptic aftermath on January 9, 2026.
Butler and Waugh are additionally planning to reunite once more for an additional extremely anticipated and long-awaited sequel, Night time Has Fallen, which is able to proceed the action-packed adventures of Secret Service Agent Mike Banning. The follow-up will deliver again Butler Banning for an additional explosive journey, and whereas plot particulars stay underneath wraps, it has been revealed that director Ric Roman Waugh and screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen will return alongside Butler. Sadly, it is perhaps some time. Butler just lately teased a “enjoyable” thought for the sequel however hinted that it may very well be a while earlier than audiences sit down in a theater to as soon as once more watch Banning take out dangerous guys and save the world.
“Now we have a script for that, however I have never been engaged on it in the mean time. Now we have a very enjoyable thought, it simply must be to be developed. But it surely’s been enjoyable just lately, making motion. I’ll say — I need to play extra the Tom Hanks of motion films. Let me take a break from the Mike Banning, the place it is actually seven or eight full-on battle sequences in each film, fistfights. And truly claiming the characters which might be actual, who’ve to drag one thing extraordinary out of themselves that an viewers can actually determine with as a result of that is what we’d like proper now.”
Kandahar
- Launch Date
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Could 26, 2023
- Runtime
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119 minutes
- Director
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Ric Roman Waugh