The Most Popular Movie on Netflix Right Now… Is a Liam Neeson Prime Video Exclusive
Prime Video’s Struggle of the Worlds nonetheless stands as one of many lowest-rated strikes on Rotten Tomatoes of the yr — even when it has heroically pulled itself up to 4% from its humble beginnings at 0%. Maybe the pungent legacy of that sci-fi adaptation can clarify why Prime Video’s number one movie on the global streaming charts isn’t on Prime Video in any respect in the USA, with Amazon having bought Liam Neeson’s awful Ice Street: Vengeance to Netflix as a substitute. The film at the moment has just 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, so it’s onerous responsible the corporate for not eager to have the unique streaming rights to two of 2025’s worst motion pictures.
Naturally, although, Ice Street: Vengeance is now the top movie on Netflix in the United States, proving as soon as once more that most people’s requirements are fairly low with regards to streaming motion motion pictures with a recognizable star. Was Prime Video mistaken to let Netflix have it? It’s not possible to say how a lot anybody hit film on a streaming platform is price, since there’s no method to know if anybody on the planet is signing up for Netflix simply to look at Ice Street: Vengeance, however it appears enormously unlikely that it will go on to turn out to be a cultural touchstone the best way KPop Demon Hunters has. Or possibly we’ll look extraordinarily foolish in a few months when everybody’s going wild for the sing-a-long model of Ice Street: Vengeance.
What Is ‘Ice Street: Vengeance’?
As urged by the title, Ice Street: Vengeance is a sequel to Neeson’s 2021 film The Ice Street, wherein he performed a Liam Neeson-type character tasked with transporting tools throughout a harmful ice street with a view to avoid wasting trapped miners. The sequel takes place in Nepal and doesn’t actually contain ice roads in any respect, at the least within the sense that a literal ice street is constructed on frozen water and is due to this fact a completely different factor than an icy street or an ice-covered street. Which means the one actual method to set this aside from each different Liam Neeson motion film is that he performs an ice-road truck driver on this one who doesn’t drive on any ice roads.
And whereas we’re speaking about issues that Ice Street: Vengeance isn’t, it’s price mentioning that this film and its predecessor are unrelated to the 2019 Liam Neeson motion film Chilly Pursuit. In that film, he performed a snowplow driver getting vengeance for the homicide of his son. They’re all additionally unrelated to The Gray, which happened in a chilly local weather, however it was about him combating wolves. They’re all additionally unrelated to Neeson’s upcoming horror-comedy Chilly Storage, which can be about chilly temperatures, however not vengeance or vehicles. And none of this has something to do with the 2017 film The Snowman (Mister Police, I gave you all of the clues), which Liam Neeson wasn’t even in.
However maybe essentially the most ridiculous factor about Ice Street: Vengeance — a Prime Video unique that’s solely on Netflix in the USA that additionally doesn’t function ice roads — is that it hit the highest spot on Netflix simply a little greater than a month after the theatrical launch of Liam Neeson’s greatest film in years: The Bare Gun. It looks like he nonetheless has the juice, when it comes to performing and choosing tasks, he simply must put it to use extra usually. Then once more, that is the highest film on whichever streaming service it’s on, relying on the place you might be, so what’s stopping him from making a third Ice Street film about driving a truck in house? Perhaps all of us have to cease encouraging him.
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June 27, 2025
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113 minutes
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Jonathan Hensleigh
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Jonathan Hensleigh
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Al Corley, Bart Rosenblatt, Eugene Musso, Lee Nelson, Shivani Rawat, David Tish
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Dhani Yangchen
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Grace O’Sullivan
Starr Myers
