‘Awful’ Netflix rom-com with 39% Rotten Tomatoes score tops weekly chart at 24,700,000 streams

Netflix’s newest rom-com Lonely Planet, starring Liam Hemsworth and Laura Dern, has dominated the streaming chart, contempt genuinely mediocre reviews.

The wide panned movie follows ‘reclusive novelist’ Katherine Loewe (57-year-old Laura), who attends a writer’s retreat successful Morocco wherever she encounters dashing young antheral Owen Brophy played by the Hunger Games star, 34.

They soon embark connected an ‘intoxicating, life-altering emotion affair’, from Erin Brockovich creator Susannah Grant.

Although the cheesy romance has each the ingredients for a feel-good hit, the reviews person been less-than-glowing from critics and fans alike.

It’s presently sitting astatine a measly 39% connected Rotten Tomatoes wherever it is described arsenic a ‘lethargic romanticist drama’ and wholly lacking immoderate chemistry.

Nevertheless, the A-List appeal, sunny location, and light-hearted crippled person capable going for it to entreaty to Netflix viewers and the movie has changeable to fig 1 successful Netflix’s weekly planetary movie chart, securing a 2nd week successful the apical 10.

So acold it has totalled 21,900,000 cardinal streams (this week unsocial securing 13.7m) with nary signs of slowing down. Anna Kendrick’s diagnostic debut, Woman of the Hour, is trailing conscionable down successful the 2nd spot.

It marks a recurring inclination for Netflix which sees its astir critically-slammed movies skyrocket to the top. Just past period Joey King’s Uglies adaptation (flailing astatine an abysmal 15% connected Rotten Tomatoes), easy became the number-one film.

For Lonely Planet, the complaints person been wide-spanning, covering everything from the lacklustre narration to stale script. Essentially, it doesn’t permission its mark, contempt the pb stars champion efforts.

‘Neither dull capable to beryllium achy nor amusive capable to beryllium engaging, it’s simply excessively bland to marque overmuch of an content astatine all,’ the Hollywood Reporter wrote successful their antagonistic review.

‘The movie isn’t needfully bad—it’s conscionable woody and unconvincing, some attributes that use to galore romance movies of the past that we inactive ticker and moderately enjoy,’ Observer added.

‘The communicative isn’t truthful hot. At slightest the leads are. That’s not capable to marque Lonely Planet a bully film, but it mightiness beryllium capable to get done each 94 minutes without clicking connected thing other instead. Maybe,’ The Wrap concluded.

Even if viewers aren’t having a bully time, astatine slightest Oscar-winning histrion Laura is. She opened up to People astir the steamier scenes she filmed with Liam.

The Jurassic Park prima praised him arsenic ‘literally the safest idiosyncratic I could ever speech done everything successful my beingness with.’

She added: ‘By the clip we were doing those scenes, determination was thing we couldn’t speech astir unneurotic and enactment retired creatively, professionally, each of that,” she explained. “But we besides had a batch of support. We had much, overmuch discussion.”

‘Film and filmmaking person changed truthful that everyone is comfy successful their dependable and tin acceptable boundaries comfortably without fearfulness of losing a occupation oregon being unpopular.’

Meanwhile, co-star Liam added to Netflix that it was ‘an implicit privilege’ to stock the surface with specified an acclaimed actor.

‘She has this singular endowment for drafting you in, making each infinitesimal consciousness intimate and real,’ helium reflected.

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