Booth is intercepted by Johnson’s John Hartley. The eggs in question not only look suspiciously like the Fabergé creations of the Russian imperial family, but brand-spanking new and shiny – no one ever seems to question their provenanc, though. Reynolds plays Nolan Booth, the world’s most prolific art thief, who’s just swiped one of Cleopatra’s three gold-encrusted eggs, gifted to her by Mark Antony. Nor does it have the outright absurdity of his earlier comedies, such as Dodgeball or Central Intelligence. Nothing about writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber’s story makes a lick of sense. The whole thing ended up costing the streaming service around $200m, though it’s a mystery where most of that money ended up – it’s certainly not on screen. In fairness, Red Notice actually originated at Universal, before the studio got cold feet over the concept of selling an original property on star power alone (it’s the age where franchises matter much more than people, after all), and sold the project to Netflix. Is there any appeal here beyond that? Don’t count on it. Netflix has only shared a brief plot synopsis, but what they have shared and what we can glean from the recently released trailer is that Dwayne Johnson will play a top FBI agent on the tail of two master criminals. Gadot swans about in silk, leather, and feathers, before showing the boys how it’s really done. Red Notice was written by (and is directed by) Rawson Marshall Thurber (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Central Intelligence). Johnson gets to play the roguish cop (well, technically an FBI profiler with an unprecedented access to guns).
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It features three bankable stars – Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot, and Ryan Reynolds – conducting a series of globe-spanning art heists.
For all the divisiveness around the streaming vs theatrical debate, one thing Netflix has proven is that freedom from the pressure of box office receipts can also mean freedom from creative restrictions.īut then where does Red Notice fit into all of this? This action caper is less a film than a collection of buzzwords. It put out The Old Guard, a mainstream comic-book adaptation that actually had the guts to put an LGBT+ love story front and centre. It helped make Jeymes Samuel’s debut, The Harder They Fall, a splashy and starry affair. It put up the $160m budget for Martin Scorsese’s passion project, The Irishman. 12, 117 minutes.įor a streaming service so faithfully married to its algorithm, it’s surprising just how often Netflix is willing to take a risk. Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot.
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