Amid ongoing political and civil unrest across the world, and as protests against police brutality and racism rage on in the States and abroad, one film — Olivier Megaton's Netflix original The Last Days of American Crime — has defied all contextual logic by touting pro-police ideologies and gratuitous violence as its main plot devices.
While there's never a good time to produce such a tone-deaf piece of work, the film couldn't have been released at a worse time — and critics have reflected that in their reviews since its release last week. As a result, the film sits at a scathing zero percent critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Released on June 5 — just under two weeks after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police — the Netflix original continues to garner unfavourable reviews, with some critics calling the film "forgettable" and "dull," as some berate its "ludicrously long" runtime of 2.5 hours as "indulgent."
The official synopsis for The Last Days of American Crime reads as follows:
As a final response to terrorism and crime, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. Graham Bricke (Édgar Ramírez), a career criminal who was never able to hit the big score, teams up with famous gangster progeny Kevin Cash (Michael Pitt), and black-market hacker Shelby Dupree (Anna Brewster), to commit the heist of the century and the last crime in American history before the signal goes off.
Dan Jackson of Thrillist wrote of the film, "Given how bare-bones the plan is, it's reasonable to wonder how the movie fills its excessive two-and-a-half-hour runtime, which typically signals at least some misjudged form of ambition or indulgence."
Meanwhile, IndieWire's David Ehrlich said it was "a braindead slog that shambles forward like the zombified husk of the heist movie it wants to be," adding that the film "is a death march of clichés that offers nothing to look at and even less to consider. "
While the critic score remains scathingly low, RT's audience score is only slightly better with a rating of 27 percent. Twitter, meanwhile, is home to snapshot reviews that reflect a sentiment somewhere in the middle ground.
Despite its measly ratings, the film sits at Netflix's No. 3 movie in Canada as of today — possibly due to an influx of hate-watching.
Watch the trailer below, where you'll also find some of Twitter's reactions.
While there's never a good time to produce such a tone-deaf piece of work, the film couldn't have been released at a worse time — and critics have reflected that in their reviews since its release last week. As a result, the film sits at a scathing zero percent critic score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Released on June 5 — just under two weeks after the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police — the Netflix original continues to garner unfavourable reviews, with some critics calling the film "forgettable" and "dull," as some berate its "ludicrously long" runtime of 2.5 hours as "indulgent."
The official synopsis for The Last Days of American Crime reads as follows:
As a final response to terrorism and crime, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal making it impossible for anyone to knowingly commit unlawful acts. Graham Bricke (Édgar Ramírez), a career criminal who was never able to hit the big score, teams up with famous gangster progeny Kevin Cash (Michael Pitt), and black-market hacker Shelby Dupree (Anna Brewster), to commit the heist of the century and the last crime in American history before the signal goes off.
Dan Jackson of Thrillist wrote of the film, "Given how bare-bones the plan is, it's reasonable to wonder how the movie fills its excessive two-and-a-half-hour runtime, which typically signals at least some misjudged form of ambition or indulgence."
Meanwhile, IndieWire's David Ehrlich said it was "a braindead slog that shambles forward like the zombified husk of the heist movie it wants to be," adding that the film "is a death march of clichés that offers nothing to look at and even less to consider. "
While the critic score remains scathingly low, RT's audience score is only slightly better with a rating of 27 percent. Twitter, meanwhile, is home to snapshot reviews that reflect a sentiment somewhere in the middle ground.
Despite its measly ratings, the film sits at Netflix's No. 3 movie in Canada as of today — possibly due to an influx of hate-watching.
Watch the trailer below, where you'll also find some of Twitter's reactions.
