🍿 2022-11-15 17:30:28 – Paris/France.
It's normal that Netflix focuses more on promoting its original productions, but then the platform comes up with unexpected hits in catalog titles that seemed already forgotten. This was the case of 'La hora de la spider', a film that failed in theaters at the time and whose popularity has resurfaced in Spain thanks to Netflix.
'The Hour of the Spider' is the sequel to 'The Love Collector' with which Hollywood set out to establish a thriller franchise led by Morgan freeman. For this they had a multitude of novels featuring the character of Alex Cross, but the box office result was well below expectations and the saga never went beyond. Well, it's true that a reboot was attempted in 2012 with 'In the Mind of the Killer', a gruesome film starring Tyler Perry that crashed at the box office.
Released in 2001, the first big problem with 'The Hour of the Spider' is that it's a film that resorted to formulas which, at that time, were already losing favor with the publicWell, let's not forget that it hit theaters just months after “CSI” revolutionized American television.
It also doesn't help that it's a movie. quite conventional in every way and that the enigma he proposes is badly formulated and its crazy resolution It ends up being more absurd than anything else. Yes, it's true that Freeman brings a certain aplomb to make it less banal, but in the end what we have here is more of a film to have in the background without paying too much attention to what is happening because the dissolving aspect in a. I do not exclude that this was the key to its good reception on Netflix.
The only regret left by the film is that Hollywood never trust a franchise in freeman againan actor who seems destined to shine in secondary characters.
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SOURCE: Reviews News
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