Since its release on Netflix on June 3, the action film Interceptor has squatted the global top 10 on the platform, despite mostly negative feedback. And even its director does not explain this audience success!
This is his first feature film behind the camera and it’s already a hit! Invited by variety commenting on the big success of Interceptor on Netflix, Matthew Reilly confided: “It blew me away. I was hoping to sneak into the Netflix top 10, but be number one everywhere?“
Indeed, the film in which a soldier played by Elsa Pataky is the only person who can prevent 16 stolen nuclear warheads from falling on the United States, quickly took the lead in the ranking of the streaming giant. It thus slipped into the top 10 in 93 countries the weekend it went online, and squarely in first position in around fifty territories with around 50 million hours watched.
In France, Interceptor is now only ahead of Le Haut du Panier, another surprise success from Netflix. “I don’t think anyone expected him to take the world by storm. I’m as confused as everyone“, joked the director who did not, however, miss the mockery that his work may have aroused.
His reaction to criticism
“I’m fully aware of what the movie is“, thus indicated Matthew Reilly, a feature film of nag action without finesse traversed by punchlines at the limit of the ridiculous. But for the filmmaker, there is nevertheless a limit to the criticisms that can be addressed to a director :
“If you don’t like my movie, say you don’t like it. That does not bother me. But in the last few years we’ve come to this end and these people saying, I don’t like your movie, so I hate you, so you should die a painful, miserable death and never make movies again. .“
The hatred he may have received since the release of Interceptor has not, however, tainted his desire to give it a sequel if ever Netflix offered him the possibility! The script is already ready…