‘Terrible’ Netflix action film critics hated gets 28,200,000 views in first three days-Tori Brazier-Entertainment – Metro

Netflix’s latest big release has proven a hit with curious viewers (Picture: Netflix)

The most popular film on Netflix this week has defied critics and its awful reviews to be watched a massive 28million times in is first three days alone on the platform.

Jennifer Lopez’s new action sci-fi movie Atlas has been savaged in reviews, showing a dismal and (very) rotten score of just 19% on the review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes.

The $100million (£78.6m) movie follows brilliant data analyst Atlas Shepherd (Lopez) as she embarks on a mission to stop a renegade robot.

Despite a deep distrust of AI, she is forced to trust the artificial intelligence device when the mission takes a dangerous turn. 

Atlas also stars Oscar nominee Sterling K. Brown, Marvel’s Simu Liu and Sherlock Homes and Shazam! actor Mark Strong.

According to Netflix’s site Tudum, Atlas has completely dominated this week’s global top 10, after less than a week on the platform, with 28,200,000 views of the movie clocked internationally.

That’s also comfortably ahead of the 21,400,000 Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver managed in the same time window back in April.

This is based on 56,300,000 hours viewed of the film, which has a two-hour runtime.

And, as ever, Netflix likes to base its calculations on each account actually representing two people, so it could be argued from their standpoint that Atlas has been watched already by a wild 56m people.

Netflix’s data was collected between May 20 and May 26, with Atlas only being released on Friday May 24.

Atlas also far outstripped the competition from other titles currently streaming on the platform, with animated movie Thelma the Unicorn in distant second place with 10.7m views.

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs was nipping at its heels in third place this week, with 9.5m views, while a former number one was in fourth.

Atlas, starring Jennifer Lopez, was panned by critics but has attracted over 28million views in its first three days streaming on the platform (Picture: Ana Carballosa/Netflix)

The movie also stars Oscar nominee Sterling K. Brown as Colonel Banks (Picture: Ana Carballosa/Netflix)

New Netflix film Mother of the Bride, starring Brooke Shields, Miranda Cosgrove and Benjamin Bratt, was also panned upon its release – with some viewers even complaining of it having ‘an AI script’.

However, it still pulled in 9.3m view this week, ahead of the likes of Madame Web, Disturbia, Sing 2 and A Simpe Favour.

Although J-Lo might be pulling in interest from fans for this flick, directed by Brad Peyton, was dubbed ‘a massive misfire in almost every conceivable fashion’ by Allen Almachar for The MacGuffin, while The San Francisco Chronicle’s Mick LaSalle wrote: ‘Imagine two hours of Lopez trying to deadlift 1,000 pounds, and you’d have an idea of what Atlas is like.’  

J-Lo, with her co-stars Simu Liu (L) and Brown (R) at the Atlas premiere (Picture: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images)

Deadline’s Valerie Complex also called it ‘a missed opportunity’ while Empire’s Helen O’Hara observed: ‘Even major movie-star charisma can’t make up for the recycled story elements, tired exposition and endless psycho-babble.’

Fans have also been left less than impressed, with viewer @thisisseaston simply tweeting: ‘This new J Lo movie is really bad. Not even fun to watch bad. Bad bad.’

‘All those amazing cancelled shows. For this,’ @sin_shady718 added. 

Atlas is streaming on Netflix now.

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