Prime Video’s Most Scandalous Movie Hits a Major Milestone Despite 59% on Rotten Tomatoes

Summary:

• Even though it didn’t do that well with the critics, the new thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal has succeeded in another thing and reached a significant amount of viewers.
• It’s still not known how exactly the streaming service has calculated the viewers, but it doesn’t seem to be a big deal for the crew that celebrated reaching such a milestone.
• Before its release the movie got some bad PR due to the feud between the director and the streaming company

Now it seems to have vanished as the film keeps showing impressive results.

Sometimes the critics’ reviews don’t say it all — after quite a poor streaming start surrounded by a not very needed drama between the director and the streaming service, Prime Video ’s Road House with Jake Gyllenhaal in the leading role still keeps going higher.

This time the 1989 thriller’s modern remake has managed to get 50 million viewers after being released only on March 21.

Though some mystery behind this kind of success remains as Amazon didn’t specify the way that the streaming uses to calculate the amount of viewers — whether it’s a watch counted for just one minute of the movie’s play or more the Netflix and Disney+ ’s case where the streaming the overall runtime is divided by the amount of viewers.

However, it doesn’t seem to bother too much as Jake Gyllenhaal, who in the film portrays a former UFC fighter getting a job as a bouncer in one of the bars in Florida, already congratulated his movie colleagues on a major success in his social media.

The head of Amazon MGM Jennifer Salke also reached out to the film’s crew saying that she’s excited to see how the brand new remake having one more of Jake Gyllenhaal’s stunning performances have managed to conquer the hearts of the original movie’s fans.

Doug Liman’s Road House seems to start making up to the team’s expectations after a not very promising promo period. Back then the director, right several days before the premiere on Amazon Prime, suddenly protested against the movie’s streaming release by saying that Road House deserved to have a decent theatrical run.

The feud with Amazon was later shut down by reaching some compromise that only Liman and the streaming company knew about, but the director still made quite a lot of fuss and even threatened to skip Road House’s premiere (which he eventually did attend).

As for now, it seems like the hatchet is buried — thanks to the Amazon’s viewers.

Source: The Hollywood Reporter