Over a dozen better action flicks Netflix’s ‘Red Notice’ will remind you of
A by-the-numbers studio blockbuster originally acquired by Universal and engineered to strike box office gold, the pricey Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson-Ryan Reynolds vehicle “Red Notice” instead arrived last week as a Netflix original, testing the algorithm and the limits of tentpole moviemaking on our streaming screens. Featuring famous movie stars in exotic globe-trotting locales, heist high jinks and the vague sheen of a dozen other action flicks you know and love, what’s not to like?
A lot, say critics.
Fueled more by star power than compelling storytelling, “Red Notice” stars the usually charming Johnson as an FBI profiler who reluctantly teams with a wisecracking art thief
