A 2024action moviewith a 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes is trending on a major streaming chart. The year featured quite a few well-regarded entries in the genre, with at least nine titles officially becoming Certified Fresh on the review aggregator platform. This includes the Ridley Scott legacy sequelGladiator II(71%), the Nicolas Cage post-apocalypse movieArcadian(78%), the Ryan Gosling action-comedyThe Fall Guy(82%), and the Jeremy Saulnier Netflix offeringRebel Ridge(96%).
2024 action moviesalso had the capacity to be huge box office successes. One of the year’s earliest hits was the Jason Statham outingThe Beekeeper, which grossed $153 million against its $40 million budget after debuting on January 12. By the end of 2024,multiple Top 20 titles of the year were from the action genre, includingBad Boys: Ride or Die(No. 14 with $404.5 million),Venom: The Last Dance(No. 10 with $478.8 million),Dune: Part Two(No. 6 with $714.6 million), andDeadpool & Wolverine(No. 2 with $1.338 billion).
The Painter Is Succeeding On Paramount+
It Is Outdoing A Wide Range Of Movies
2024’sThe Painterhas found unexpected success. The movie, whichfollows a retired CIA officer who has taken up painting and whose past comes back to haunt him, starsHow to Get Away with Murder’s Charlie Weber,The 100’s Marie Avgeropoulos,Outer Banks' Madison Bailey, and Oscar winner Jon Voight, who is the patriarch of aHollywood familythat includes his daughter Angelina Jolie. The movie had a dismal critical reception, earning a Rotten Tomatoes score of 0% from 10 different reviews.
Jon Voight won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1979 for his role inComing Home, though he was previously nominated forMidnight Cowboyand would go on to earn nods forRunaway TrainandAli.
Now,The Painterhas appeared on the daily Paramount+ Top 10 movie chart. At the time of writing, it is No. 6, behindGladiator IIat No. 1, the originalGladiatorat No. 2, the newStar TrekmovieSection 31at No. 3, the 2022 smash hit legacy sequelTop Gun: Maverickat No. 4, and the action movieFirst Shiftat No. 5.First Shiftdoes not have an official Rotten Tomatoes score, soSection 31(20%) is the only title aboveThe Painterthat has a Rotten score, as the other three titles are all Certified Fresh.
What This Means For The Painter
Its Streaming Success May Not Last
AlthoughThe Painterhas landed on the chart above a wide variety of better reviewed titles, including theJack ReachermovieNever Go Back(37%) at No. 8, this does not mean that theaction moviewill continue making a splash. While it seems that the movie’s availability on Paramount+ has piqued the curiosity of many viewers,it currently holds an audience score of just 35% on Rotten Tomatoes. This would seem to indicate that those viewers generally remain unsatisfied with the project, so it could drop off the chart relatively quickly.
The Painter
Cast
A former CIA agent turned painter is forced back into action when a mysterious woman from his past resurfaces. Now targeted by an assassin and a rogue black ops program, he must rely on skills he thought were long buried, navigating a high-stakes game of survival.
