Joe Carnahan’s The Rip Tops Netflix Charts For A Second Straight Week
Joe Carnahan’s The Rip is tearing up Netflix, holding the No. 1 spot for a second straight week and topping 40 million views with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon leading the charge.
Netflix has another brawler at the top of the charts. Joe Carnahan's The Rip just spent a second straight week as the streamer’s No. 1 English-language movie, and the numbers are loud: 40.4 million views and 76.1 million hours watched so far. It even notched Netflix's biggest opening since Happy Gilmore 2 last summer. The wrinkle: as big as that is, it still might not be enough to muscle into Netflix's all-time Top 10 movies, which is a much steeper climb.
What is The Rip?
File this under crooked-cop powder keg. Matt Damon plays Lieutenant Dane Dumars and Ben Affleck is Detective Sergeant J.D. Byrne, two leaders of a Tactical Narcotics Team chasing a tip on a cartel stash house. The title is cop slang: a 'rip' is when police seize criminal assets. Here, the haul is $20 million in cash. The team has to count every dollar on-site before anyone leaves, which is a tidy way to trap a roomful of armed people with fraying trust and plenty of temptation. Suspicion spreads, alliances wobble, and things get ugly fast.
Who is in it
- Matt Damon as Lt. Dane Dumars
- Ben Affleck as Det. Sgt. J.D. Byrne
- Steven Yeun
- Teyana Taylor
- Sasha Calle
- Catalina Sandino Moreno
- Scott Adkins
- Kyle Chandler
- Nestor Carbonell
How big is big on Netflix?
Second week at No. 1 on the English films list, 40.4 million views, 76.1 million hours streamed. For context, that opening surge is Netflix's biggest since Happy Gilmore 2. Still, the streamer’s all-time Top 10 is more marathon than sprint, so we will see if The Rip keeps its legs over the next few weeks.
So, is it any good?
If you like Carnahan in Narc mode, this is very much that flavor, with the dial turned toward action. JoBlo's Chris Bumbray was all-in, calling out a fat car chase and gunfight for Affleck and a bruising, up-close brawl for Damon that scratches the Bourne itch. He also argued Netflix should have put it on the big screen because, well:
'It would kill on a big screen.'
He lands on it being a lean, mean action-thriller with both Matt and Ben doing what you want Matt and Ben to do.
Bottom line
The Rip is a tense, cash-counting pressure cooker with star power and a nasty streak, and it is clearly connecting with Netflix viewers. Whether it climbs into the all-time ranks is a different question, but right now, it is the streamer’s top movie two weeks running.
Seen it yet? Does it deserve that No. 1 slot, or is this one riding pure curiosity and star wattage?