French Motion Thriller With 43% RT Rating Turns into Large Hit on Netflix

In the previous few years, Netflix has additional expanded its slate with overseas titles which have confirmed to be extraordinarily standard. Other than the worldwide phenomenon sequence Squid Sport and Cash Heist, the streamer has launched many standard motion pictures, too, like 2023’s Society of the Snow, 2019’s The Platform, and 2024’s Beneath Paris.

A brand new title that is making waves on the streaming service is Advert Vitam. The French motion thriller debuted on Netflix on Jan. 10, 2025, and has been an enormous hit ever since. Advert Vitam continued its dominance on the high of the non-English film charts globally for a third week in a row, including 8.4 million views, the equal of 13.7 million hours seen for the week between Jan. 20 and Jan. 26, per Tudum.

For the present week, Advert Vitam was within the Prime 10 in 87 international locations, together with the U.S. Within the home charts, the French motion movie is in seventh place, surrounded by a number of animated movies like the primary two Despicable Me movies, The Secret Lifetime of Pets, Lodge Transylvania 2, The Boss Child, and Trolls Band Collectively. In first place was Again in Motion for a second week in a row, adopted by the 2024 sports activities drama You Gotta Imagine, and 2023’s Scream VI in tenth place.

Throughout its first week, the film debuted in first place on the worldwide charts with 17.1 million, an enormous feat contemplating Netflix counted the week between Jan. 6 and Jan. 12, and the movie hit the platform on Jan. 10. The French motion movie continued to carry on to the primary place for its second week, as nicely, including virtually twice its preliminary numbers for a complete of 25.5 million views.

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Since its launch on Netflix, Advert Vitam has attracted 51 million views. This quantity alone is thrilling, and it is solely 2.9 million away from making it onto Netflix’s prestigious checklist of Most Widespread Movies in Non-English. The tenth place is at the moment occupied by the 2022 Swedish movie Black Crab, with 53.9 million, a straightforward feat for Advert Vitam to realize subsequent week.

Though Netflix will not launch the brand new numbers for this week till Feb. 4, on Jan. 29, Advert Vitam is at the moment in fifth place globally, in response to FlixPatrol, which makes its addition to the Most Widespread Listing virtually a assure.

What Is Advert Vitam About?

Netflix is at the moment experiencing a number of recognition within the motion thriller style, evidenced by the success of 2024’s Carry-On, starring Taron Egerton and Jason Bateman, in addition to Again in Motion, teaming up Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz. Advert Vitam rides on the identical wave.

The film follows an ex-elite agent, Franck, performed by Guillaume Canet (All-Time Excessive), who has to confront his previous after the dangerous guys kidnap his pregnant spouse Léo, performed by Stéphane Caillard (Struggle of the Worlds). The film additionally stars Nassim Lyes (Beneath Paris), Zita Hanrot (Lee), Johan Heldenbergh (Quo Vadis, Aida?), and Alexis Manenti (Athena). Rodolphe Lauga directed the film and co-wrote it with David Corona and Canet.

Though Advert Vitam has been repeatedly on the high of the charts since its launch, the movie would not have good critiques. The critics gave it a “rotten” rating of 43% out of 14 critiques, and the viewers did not give the motion thriller a optimistic rating, both, holding an excellent decrease score of 32% on the Popcornmeter.

Advert Vitam is streaming on Netflix.

Supply: Tudum, FlixPatrol

Advert Vitam

Launch Date

January 10, 2025

Runtime

97 minutes

Director

Rodolphe Lauga

Writers

Rodolphe Lauga, Guillaume Canet

Producers

Guillaume Canet

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  Guillaume Canet

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