Forward of the opening of Gerard Butler’s Den of Thieves 2: Pantera this coming weekend, one other certainly one of his movies is at the moment climbing the streaming charts. Final Seen Alive, which was an enormous field workplace and important bomb in 2022, is at quantity two within the MAX worldwide streaming charts. This regardless of a really horrendous rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The movie has a decent forged with Butler, Jaimie Alexander (Thor), Russell Hornsby (The Hate U Give), and Ethan Embry (Candy Residence Alabama), and was directed by Brian Goodman, largely recognized for his appearing. Final Seen Alive follows Will (Butler) as he searches for his soon-to-be ex-wife, Lisa (Alexander), who goes lacking whereas at a fuel station. As is typical with these kind of movies, Will finds himself up towards the small city’s prison aspect, whereas additionally on the run from the authorities.
It debuted on Oct. 1, 2022 on Netflix, and turned the most-watched movie within the U.S. (on the time), regardless of largely adverse evaluations. Final Seen Alive did obtain a world launch on June 3, 2022, and made a measly $5.9 million (which was greater than this Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain bomb).
Earlier than the writing of this text, it was at 13% on Rotten Tomatoes by critics, however it moved to 14%. That is fairly the accomplishment. Audiences had been slightly bit kinder, giving it a 48% ranking on RT. Over on IMBd, it sits at 5.7 / 10.
What’s actually wonderful is what Butler revealed on Instagram days after its Netflix premiere. He wrote:
“I’ll allow you to in on slightly secret. I took this film [‘Last Seen Alive’] on as a enjoyable problem/experiment. I improvised the entire film. I used to be solely ever proven the primary ten pages and even they had been thrown away as soon as we had been on set. We shot the film in 8 days. I used to be drawn to the concept of how it could really feel getting into scene after scene having no thought what was gonna be thrown at me. I’ve by no means taken on something like that and it was each difficult and exhilarating. You may’t assist however be within the second.”
Judging by the general critique of the movie, one may argue there wasn’t a lot of a script. If just one may have been a fly on the wall to see how the financiers felt.
The place to Watch ‘Final Seen Alive’
Final Seen Alive is at the moment streaming solely on MAX for worldwide subscribers – fortunate for U.S. viewers. Nevertheless, should you actually should see if the movie is that unhealthy, you may catch it on Netflix. And at solely 95 minutes lengthy, so it’s going to be over quick.
A movie that’s much like this one is Breakdown (1997) with Kurt Russell and directed by Jonathan Mostow, and is much superior to Butler’s stinker, sitting at 83% Contemporary at Rotten Tomatoes. It is obtainable to observe on totally different streamers, together with Paramount+, Hulu, Prime Video, and others.
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There appears to be some curiosity in Butler’s movies which can be within the vein of Den of Thieves, which was a reasonable worldwide hit when it opened again in January 2018 and forward of its sequel. If you would like to observe extra high quality Gerard Butler motion movies, the Has Fallen collection is a certain wager, together with the traditional, 300, which launched his profession again in 2007.
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera opens this weekend.