There should be a kind of moratorium streaming while we determine what is happening on earth with our vision habits. Very recently, A film by Owen Wilson and Zach Galifianakis Forgoté found a second life on the video prime Despite a miserable note of 8% on rotten tomatoes. Now, a new streaming success has beaten Wilson and Galifianakis in this regard, after climbing the Netflix charts with an even lower score.

“Fallen” of 2016 is a romantic fantastic drama based on the novel of the same name of Lauren Kate. He features Addison Timlin as Lucinda Price, a teenager sent to the reform of the sword and the boarding school. There, it meets and quickly develops a deep attraction for Daniel Grigori by Jeremy Irvine. However, it turns out that Daniel is really a fallen angel who has been fighting against Lucinda’s affections for centuries. A look at the trailer for the film and I can’t help but think that it is roughly a mixture of popular fantastic franchises as possible. From the sword and the Hogwarts to the love story inspired by “Twilight” involving a mysterious and disturbed lonely lonely with supernatural powers, “Fallen” seems to be the best attempt at an AI to produce a fantasy Generic romantic adolescent – which is probably why it was a critical and commercial disaster.

After having released certain Asian markets in 2016, the film made its debut in the United States on September 22, 2017 and did not succeed very well. “Fallen” only reported $ 3.45 million at the global box office against a budget of $ 40 million, making it a certified box office bomb, and not the type that is really worth it. For what? Because criticism also hated this unhappy fantastic outing, which ultimately led to a score of abject criticism of 7% Rotten tomatoes.

Why, then, I ask, “fallen” who currently holds hard in the Netflix charts?

“Fallen” was directed by the Australian filmmaker Scott Hicks, who had previously received two Oscar nominations for Helming “Shine”, his biopic on the real pianist David Helfgott. Unfortunately, “Fallen” did not get Hicks for the Academy, but at least it happens on Netflix now.

When writing FlixpatrolThe film has been in the table of the most watched films Netflix for a full week in the United States. He reached a summit on February 5, 2025, when he reached first place, but has slowly lost steam since. He fell in first place on February 6 to stay there until February 10, when he fell at the eight number. THE Presentation of FlixPatrol’s graphic seems to show that on February 11, “Fallen” completely disappeared from the charts. However, but you look at it, it’s a nice little race for this forgotten fantastic outing.

“Fallen” was partly avoided following new films that strike Netflix, including the new comedy of Amy Schumer “pregnant Kinda” (who claimed first place Despite its 22%RT score). In the meantime, “Back in action” by Cameron Diaz, who dominated the Netflix graphics when it was releasedis in a way always clings to a graphic position after three weeks, while sporting an RT score of 28% just as dark. As such, “Fallen” faced difficult competition – or, rather, it was faced with competition with higher RT scores than 7%.

In 2023, the Michael Fassbender Flop “The Snowman” has traced and proved that Netflix viewers would look at everything. This film also wore a modest score of 7% on Rotten Tomatoes, so “Fallen” finding success on Netflix should not be a big surprise. However, take a look at these criticisms.

Write Rogerebert.comMatt Fagerholm lathe the film, “yet another potential YOU franchise inspired by recycled formulas rather than the experience of life”, and concluded that it was doomed to succumb to “ADD – the tragically disinterested audience”. THE New York Times“Teo Bugbee, meanwhile, found the romantic elements devoid of” any organic interaction that could produce chemistry “. Why, then, do Netflixers seriously broadcast this film?

I suspect that part of this is that streaming has just reduced our collective expectations for cinema. If “Fallen” had been produced today, it would probably have gone directly to streaming, where, on the basis of the new success of the film Netflix, it would have resisted quite well. Unfortunately, it seemed to arrive just before streaming really dominates the landscape of cinema. It was not very good either, apparently, so it did not help. In addition to that, we are simply bombed by so much “content” that it is often easier to hit the game on everything that then appears in the “recently added” category. Whatever the reason for “Fallen” and his comrades RT DUDS who succeed on Netflix, it seems that it will be the new reality for some time.