New Netflix movie cops woeful 0 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes

Ouch. The latest film to drop on Netflix has received a dreadful – and very rare – 0 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. So why is it so bad?

It’s not easy to get a 0 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

But a new Netflix film, The Last Days of American Crime, has achieved the feat, putting it among the likes of the third Jaws film (yes, there’s a third one) and John Travolta’s massively panned 2018 film, Gotti.

In order to score a nil rating on the user reviewed website, it means not one person has left a positive rating about the movie. Not. One. There are only 43 movies which have managed to cop a 0 per cent rating.

So why is it so bad? You’d think the manpower behind Netflix would lend its originals to being liked by at least one viewer.

The action thriller, starring Edgar Ramirez and Anna Brewster, is based on Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini's 2009 graphic novel of the same name.

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Edgar Ramirez in a scene from "Last Days Of American Crime." Picture: Marcos Cruz/Netflix via AP

Directed by Olivier Megaton, Netflix describes the two-and-a-half-hour movie as: “A bank robber joins a plot to commit one final, historic heist before the government turns on a mind-altering signal that will end all criminal behaviour”.

And despite it being the second most popular movie in Australia today, critics have absolutely savaged the film.

Decider’s John Serba wrote: “It has no artfully or viscerally choreographed chases or fights, no compelling cops-and-robbers dynamic, no heady conceptual fodder, no tangible emotional content, no clever schemes perpetrated by the crooks. It’s an incoherent smash-and-grab movie that drones its grim tune for a sloppy two-and-a-half hours.”

Eek.

The Hollywood Reporter called it “instantly forgettable”, while Deadline dubbed it a “braindead slog.”

Rolling Stone said “

This is not good action cinema. This is not even good alligator-brain cinema”... whatever that means.

On top of that, other film writers pointed out it was the wrong time to release a film with police brutality, given the uproar in the US at the moment over George Floyd’s death.

Peter Debruge of Variety labelled the film "gory, excessive and frequently incoherent" and wrote: "In light of everything that's going on, The Last Days of American Crime seems woefully out of touch, inadvertently offensive (a brutal fight scene in which Copley chokes Shelby seems oblivious to the legacy of real-world police brutality) and like some sloppy relic of what once passed for entertainment."

Other movies which have received a 0 per cent rating on Rotten Tomatoes include Police Academy 4, The Ridiculous 6, London Fields and Return to the Blue Lagoon.