OPINION : We all know that Netflix is pretty good at doing TV series . Its latest , Nobody Wants This , just set in motion to favourable reviews . What it ca n’t do as well , is pic .
There have been absolutely fine Netflix films in the last several years . I care watching The Dig , Hit - Man was a sight of fun ( though technically Netflix bought that pic ) but I honestly find myself struggling to suppose of another good Netflix picture I ’ve watched in the past few years . That ’s probably because I avoid most of them like the infestation , or in the case of Rebel Moon , I ’ve excise it from my memory .
Having heard the good revue that surrounded Rebel Ridge , I decided to give that a watch , and while I do n’t think it lived up to the hype , I did enjoy it . It ’s not really a retaliation - thriller of kind , at least not in the traditional way , adopt on the figure of speech of the Western literary genre but with very little blood - lease ; and violence that was more tactical than turgid . It was a nice change from the usual .
Netflixhas desire to disrupt the traditional method of cinema and television receiver market for years , and arguably it has come through in modify the landscape painting – not necessarily for the good I ’d say , but few people are get going to cinema than there were before 2020 . There are other alternative than just having to head to the local film and park your butt there for a few hours .
Having been a spiritual cinemagoer , I now find myself being a routine more perfunctory – not because I do n’t like break down to the cinema ( my nigh Picturehouse is a unspoiled one ) , but because the quality of motion-picture show seems to have gone down . I ’d say in some case it ’s career towards Netflix ’s tier of quality , and the fewer releases coming to the movie house since the Hollywood strikes in 2023 means there ’s less of a reason to go .
But there ’s also less of a reason to leap in and watch a Netflix Original Film because they have been notoriously weak in quality . There are lessons to be learnt from Rebel Ridge – the first is that it ’s an interesting twist on a well ploughed genre , so while it follows the conventional crook and turns , it live on in unexpected directions too – it ’s a film that ’s not about violence but in neutralising it .
Then there ’s the social expression of it . The narrative of the police ’s capture force in confiscating power is not something you get wind about too often . And then there ’s the racial facial expression of a pitch-black man against a mostly white police force play , and the obvious political sympathies that come with that . Again , these are all thing that score it a little different from the usual transportation ; a picture that has something if not to say , then to shed light on .
The job I find with Netflix films is that they have very trivial to say , and almost feel as if someone return up on it towards the end of production and Netflix just shuffle it on the platform so they can be done with it . For a company that seems to desire to put the dying nail in the casket of cinema , it ’s doing a really flimsy job of it .
