The most popular original Netflix movies of all time, including 'The Adam Project' and 'Red Notice'
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"Red Notice" is Netflix's biggest original movie ever, with 239.4 million views.
"Extraction 2" is the most recent addition to the list, and the combined "Extraction" movies have more than 270 million views.
Netflix's also look at hours viewed, which gives a boost to longer movies like the 2-1/2 hour "Don't Look Up."
10. "Extraction 2" (2023) —134.9 million views
Description: After barely surviving the events of the first movie, Rake is back as the Australian black ops mercenary, tasked with another deadly mission: rescuing the battered family of a ruthless Georgian gangster from the prison where they are being held.
Hours viewed: 278.7 million
Rotten Tomatoes rating: 79%
What critics said: "With its bigger, broader swath of carnage, Extraction 2 improves upon the original and isn't unpleasant (you know, unless you're bothered by watching hundreds of deaths on screen)." — Mashable
9. "Extraction" (2020) — 135.7 million views
Description: "A hardened mercenary's mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son."
Hours viewed: 266.6 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 67%
What critics said: "The one big weapon it has — Hemsworth's ability to juxtapose his brawn with approachable charm — is one it never pulls from its holster." — Polygon
8. "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery" (2022) — 136.3 million views
Description: "World-famous detective Benoit Blanc heads to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery surrounding a tech billionaire and his eclectic crew of friends."
Hours viewed: 320.3 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 92%
What critics said: "The twisty plot isn't quite as ingenious as [Rian] Johnson's last one, but the writer-director has gone all-out to make everything in Glass Onion as big, broad, funny and colourful as Daniel Craig's southern drawl." — BBC
7. "The Mother" (2023) — 136.4 million views
Description: "A military-trained assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter she's never met from ruthless criminals gunning for revenge."
Hours viewed: 265.9 million hours
Rotten Tomatoes critics score: 43%
What critics said: "Despite well-choreographed action and a gritty performance from Jennifer Lopez, 'The Mother' is not the Mother's Day vehicle Netflix had hoped it would be." — Film Inquiry
6. We Can Be Heroes — 137.3 million views
Description: "When alien invaders kidnap Earth's superheroes, their children must team up and learn to work together if they want to save their parents and the world."
Hours viewed: 231.2 million
Rotten Tomatoes score: 74%
What critics said: A sort of sequel to "Sharkboy and Lava Girl," this film gives kids exactly what they want. Adults? Not so much. — San Jose Mercury News
5. "The Gray Man" (2022) — 139.3 million views
Description: "When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head."
Hours viewed: 299.5 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 46%
What critics said: "The film exists to set up sequels, to spend money on fancy location shoots, and to look glamorous and exciting; every harder edge has been sanded down to nothing." — The Atlantic
4. "Bird Box" (2018) — 157.4 million views
Description: "Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety."
Hours viewed: 325.3 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 64%
What critics said: "Unfortunately, Bird Box puts these performers through familiar paces, in roles of such tight typecasting that they seem like recurring characters in an extended TV series." — New Yorker
3. "The Adam Project" (2022) — 157.6 million views
Description: "After accidentally crash-landing in 2022, time-traveling fighter pilot Adam Reed teams up with his 12-year-old self on a mission to save the future."
Hours viewed: 281 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 69%
What critics said: "It's an assemblage of ideas from other popular films that just hangs there with little cohesion. It's like watching a movie that hasn't been made yet." — Vulture
2. "Don't Look Up" (2021) — 171.4 million views
Description: "Two astronomers go on a media tour to warn humankind of a planet-killing comet hurtling toward Earth."
Hours viewed: 408.6 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 55%
What critics said: "McKay's movies are not particularly pointed in their satire and, as time has gone on, have increasingly settled into their preferred form of a harangue." — Vulture
1. "Red Notice" (2021) — 230.9 views
Description: "An FBI profiler pursuing the world's most wanted art thief becomes his reluctant partner in crime to catch an elusive crook who's always one step ahead."
Hours viewed: 454.2 million
Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 36%
What critics said: "Red Notice is limp and dull, and does more to showcase the shortcomings of each of its marquee idols than it does to highlight their bankable charisma." — Vanity Fair
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