Ilya Naishuller's Nobody, starring Bob Odenkirk, took the lead in America over the weekend.
This is the first time in history when a tape of a Russian director has risen to the top of the chart.
On the screens of American cinemas "Nobody" was released on Friday, March 26th.
On the same day, the film earned more than $ 2.5 million, bypassing the animated premiere from the Disney studio "Paradise and the Last Dragon", as well as the successful acting in the box office of the tape "Chaos Tread", "The Croods: Housewarming" and "Protector".
Over the weekend, Naishuller's film confirmed its success: with a final gross of $ 6.7 million at 2,460 sites, it retained its leading position in the American box office.
Russian viewers were able to see the action movie a week earlier - it has been in theaters since March 18.
On the day of the premiere, the tape collected 12.8 million rubles, which was also the best result.
At the end of the weekend, the film's gross was 91.8 million rubles.
Then "Nobody" gave up the leading positions to the adventure tape "Palm" and the cartoon "Paradise and the Last Dragon".
To date, the box office of the film in Russia has reached 167 million rubles, and around the world she managed to earn about $ 11.7 million.
On the world market, the main event of the week was the premiere of the action movie "Godzilla vs. Kong".
The film has already grossed $ 121.8 million, of which $ 70.3 was brought to the film by Chinese viewers.
The picture was released on the screens of Russian cinemas last week and earned 434 million rubles in the first weekend.
The American premiere is scheduled for March 31st.
© Still from the film "Nobody"
In the center of the plot of the film "Nobody" is the story of an ordinary middle-aged man Hutch Mansell.
At first, the hero does nothing outstanding and cannot even protect the family from the robbers, but gradually it becomes clear that he is a very dangerous opponent.
The hero encounters a group of guys who molest a lonely girl.
By intercepting a stranger, Mansell demonstrates his strength, and after the incident enters into direct confrontation with the Russian mafia.
He has to show all the skills acquired once in the "other" life.
The freshness rating of the project on Rotten Tomatoes was 80%.
Also, the new thriller has earned a positive rating from 95% of viewers (based on the votes of several hundred users).
A number of critics praise the unobvious decision to shoot an action-packed thriller in which the main role went to Bob Odenkirk, known to the Western audience primarily as a comedian.
Many people liked the artist's play in a new role.
“Naishuller is nevertheless finding an important balance, entrusting a talented actor with a role in a tape with a rapidly unwinding unpredictable plot, where the number of bloody scenes will satisfy action fans and at the same time will not seem redundant to the ordinary viewer.
It is a rare contemporary action film that gives hope that its box office will allow the creators to release a sequel, ”said Brian Tallerico of RogerEbert.com.
The critic even suggested that a crossover in which Hutch Mansell would have played against John Wick could garner a huge box office.
Screenwriter Derek Kolstad worked on both projects, which makes the appearance of such a tape theoretically possible.
The reviewers also note that it is difficult to find any fundamental innovations for the chosen genre in the film, however, filmmakers do not set themselves too ambitious tasks and successfully use well-known techniques.
Nevertheless, some authors have sharply criticized the tape.
Mark Kennedy of the Assosiated Press in his review chided Ilya Naishuller for staging murder scenes using slow motion and romantic music (according to the author, this is a hackneyed trick).
In general, he considered the tape rough and secondary.
“The scenes of the death of people are not graceful or soulful, but simply cruel.
The script is not witty or instructive, but just brutal.
In terms of the depth of the characters, the film can be compared to the first-person video game Call of Duty ... Everyone has already seen how bullets explode in slow motion in the extras armed to the teeth, from which they fly into the air and shake like jerky dancers.
This senseless, unreasonable mess is nothing new.
And violence as an aphrodisiac is not something we would like to see in 2021.
The film "Nobody" will not offer anyone a good ending, "the critic concluded.