Chris Evans’ Pain Hustlers movie will take you on a wild Netflix ride, if you ignore its early reviews
The official trailer for Netflix Painkillers film has ended up online – and it’s clearly a doubling of that on big pharmaceutical companies wolf of wall street comparisons.
Painkillers, starring Emily Blunt and Marvel alumnus Chris Evans, received its first teaser in early September. At the time, we commented on how Netflix’s new crime comedy-thriller movie looked like a medical movie wolf of wall street. And based on the latest trailer, we’re even more certain that this is mood director David Yates (Harry Potter) goes for.
Look at Painkillers‘ official trailer below:
Based on the 2022 book of the same name by Evan Hughes, Painkillers tells the story of high school dropout Liza Drake (Blunt), who is hired by the sales representative of a Florida-based pharmaceutical start-up named Pete Brenner (Evans). However, it isn’t long before Drake becomes aware of the illegal practices within the company – led by unhinged CEO Jack Neel (Andy Garcia) – and is forced to question her own morals amid the company’s unethical and criminal activities. company.
Admittedly, Painkillers doesn’t look as cinematic as The Wolf of Wall Street But with its obvious star power and tense crime-based drama, it looks like it will be another big winner for Netflix, right? Not if you believe what critics said about one of Netflix’s new 2023 movies when early reviews dropped in mid-September.
Based on 24 reviews on Rotten tomatoes, Painkillers will be a damp story when it debuts on the world’s top streaming service at the end of October. Indeed, its poor critical score of 25% suggests it won’t be the massive success Netflix hopes it will be, which is a damn shame when you consider the talent attached to it.
Still, as we’ve seen countless times before, a film’s critical reception doesn’t always impact how well it performs among general viewers, especially for films that launch exclusively on streaming platforms.
Take Netflix’s Red notice, for example. Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot’s 2021 action-comedy spy film received an abysmal critical score of 37% on Rotten tomatoes upon release, but it is currently the most streamed Netflix film of all time.
However, as of October 1, 2023, the film has been viewed 230.9 million times, with 454.2 million hours streamed in that time (per Netflix’s Top 10 website). Red notice may not be one of the best Netflix movies in our opinion (or many others), but there’s no denying that the A-list powerhouse trio catapulted the film to the top of the Netflix movie chart, and that’s true he has remained ever since.
So yes, there is hope for it Painkillers yet. It’s off to a very bad start from critics, but it’s possible that it will be more positively received by audiences when it launches on Friday, October 27. It was also one of our top four picks from Netflix’s ‘Fall 2023’ film series. , so we hope it’s good enough to justify our faith. We’ll find out soon enough.