The 5 Worst Netflix Original Movies Of 2019 So Far
Huff PostJasper Savage/Netflix Mads Mikkelsen and Vanessa Hudgens in "Polar." Metacritic score: 29 Read on: David Ehrlich reviewed the movie in Indiewire: “The Red Sea Diving Resort” is a dull and derivative film that’s too in love with its heroes to bother with its victims. Metacritic score: 25 Read on: Scott Tobias pointed out why this movie never had a chance in The New York Times: For Shane Van Dyke, who wrote the script with his brother Carey, such “mockbuster” enterprises are his business: His credits include off-brand entertainments like “Transmorphers 2” and “Paranormal Entity,” and he even wrote and directed “Titanic II,” a disaster film set on a replica ship 100 years after the original voyage. Then the stakes sort of get established with it being clear that Wayans’ character needs to decide whether to take paternity leave or try to get a partnership at the business he has been “busting ass for all these years.” The opening scene ends with Wayans’ character asking, “You think maybe I should have just slept my way to the top?” Metacritic score: 21 Read on: Nick Allen reviewed the movie on RogerEbert.com: The laughless mess of “Sextuplets” proves that Marlon Wayans still has a big obstacle in the way of his comedic greatness — himself. Metacritic score: 19 Read on: Emily Yoshida reviewed the movie for Vulture: “Polar” is an execrable motion picture, a sad, lint-filled key bump scraped together from the bottom of the post-Tarantino ’90s exploitation baggie.