Netflix's The Mother is officially a hit, but it's not the best thriller
movie in the Top 10

Date:
Fri, 19 May 2023 12:00:56 +0000

Description:
Jennifer Lopez thriller The Mother launched into the number one spot for Netflix movies worldwide, but if you want a gripping movie this weekend, look further down the list.

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Another week, another list of Netflixs top 10 films with Jennifer Lopez thriller The Mother launching into the number one spot.

The Mother follows an isolated assassin living in Alaska, who emerges from hiding to protect her daughter from dangerous forces. Lopez plays the skilled (and unnamed) US military operative, putting her choreographic talents to use in a series of action-packed shootouts and chase sequences as she tries to keep her daughter out of harms way.

The film has proven a smash hit for Netflix , entering the Top 10 Films in 93 countries, with over 83,000,000 hours viewed four times the amount for the runner-up film this week, Tom Hanks grumpy old man showcase A Man Called Otto .

Thats despite a pretty lukewarm response from critics, with a 44% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and a general consensus that the film leans too heavily on clich to carve out its own identity, though the audience score is stronger.
If you're one of the people who watched and enjoyed it, we've got more J-Lo classics to recommend .

The critical response wasn't a problem for Netflix, it seems and its been a similar situation over at Amazon Prime Video, where the undercooked spy thriller Citadel has been a massive hit for the streaming service .

However, if you're looking for a thriller to watch this weekend and are wondering about The Mother , you'd do well to check out another thriller hanging out at the bottom of the Top 10: 1995s Heat . Bringing the heat

Heat , written and directed by crime drama master Michael Mann ( The Last of the Mohicans , Collateral ), stars the talents of Al Pacino and Robert De
Niro as a police lieutenant and professional thief respectively, narrowing in on each other through a series of heists, murders and betrayals.

It's one of the greatest crime epics of all time, and is one of the most influential movies of the 90s, providing inspiration to everything from Christopher Nolans The Dark Knight (it's like watching the movie through new eyes once you've seen Heat ) to the GTA games both of which inspired whole new sections of their industries themselves.

It has some all-time great performances from Pacino and De Niro as two very different kinds of pro broken men who don't know each other at all, and yet automatically recognize the other as a kindred spirit as they play cat and mouse across Los Angeles. Which makes the collision course they're on oddly tragic, as well as utterly gripping.

And if that doesnt take your fancy, you could always check out Kung Fu Panda
3 , of course, which currently sits at the number six spot. Or any of the other recommendations in our list of the best Netflix movies .



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