2014 wasn’t a fantastic 12 months for Cameron Diaz. The actor who shot to stardom when she debuted in 1994’s “The Masks” all of the sudden discovered herself on the heart of three movies that garnered evaluations starting from lukewarm to downright malicious with “The Different Girl,” “Intercourse Tape,” and “Annie.” Diaz’s greatest film (a minimum of in response to Rotten Tomatoes) was lengthy behind her at this level, and the actor disappeared from movie-making after “Annie” bowed in theaters. Now, she’s again in a film that can certainly do little to make up for the poor evaluations of 2014 however will, a minimum of, give her international publicity, assuming the Netflix viewing figures are something to go by.
Diaz seems alongside her “Any Given Sunday” and “Annie” co-star Jamie Foxx in “Again in Motion” during which the pair play former spies who quiet down and begin a household within the suburbs of Atlanta. As you might need guessed from the title and the feeble premise, nonetheless, the couple are shortly drawn (sigh) again into motion, with Foxx and Diaz’s Matt and Emily having to flee mercenaries despatched by their former boss and defend their youngsters within the course of.
Director Seth Gordon (“Id Thief,” “Baywatch”), advised Tudum that “Again in Motion” got here from him considering the concept of “What wouldn’t it be like for Jason Bourne if he had youngsters?” Nicely, lastly this query that certainly each Bourne fan has been asking since Matt Damon’s franchise debuted has been answered with yet one more sorta okay Netflix film that can quickly wash away amid the inexorable tide of streaming “content material.” Earlier than it turns into yet one more forgotten streaming effort, nonetheless, it can evidently handle to seize our more and more diminishing collective consideration span, as the entire world seems to be fortunately streaming Diaz’s return to movie-making.
Cameron Diaz is again in motion on Netflix
Earlier than Cameron Diaz disappeared from Hollywood, she was simply one in all its greatest stars. Whereas a middling Netflix motion comedy may not appear to be the form of factor that will remind us of the actor’s star energy, “Again In Motion” is a minimum of proving vastly fashionable on Netflix. The film hit the streamer on January 17, and instantly proved to be nothing wanting a sensation. Based on FlixPatrol, a web site that tracks streaming viewership knowledge throughout the assorted platforms, the film is an indeniable success for Netflix, not solely topping the U.S. most-watched charts but additionally changing into a world hit.
Stateside, “Again in Motion” debuted on the most-watched movie charts the day after it arrived on the service, hitting primary on January 18, 2025, and staying there ever since. As of January 20, it is nonetheless within the prime spot and appears set to stay there for a while, changing into one in all Netflix’s greatest releases of 2025 to this point. It is the identical story world wide, too, with “Again in Motion” managing to repeat its chart-topping success in each different market.
As of January 20, the movie is primary in 92 nations, solely failing to prime the charts in New Zealand, the place it at the moment sits at quantity two. Even then, “Again in Motion” was primary in New Zealand for its first two days on Netflix. If that is not spectacular sufficient, Diaz’s triumphant return has been primary day by day because it hit Netflix in 88 nations world wide, suggesting it is not going to solely be dominating the U.S. charts for a while, however that it’s going to additionally seemingly stay within the international rankings for the foreseeable future — particularly since in each nation the place it is charting, it hasn’t dipped beneath the quantity two place in any of them.
Is Again in Motion value watching?
You may suppose it unfair to belittle yet one more Netflix film when it has the star energy of Cameron Diaz propelling it. Nicely, whereas I hesitate to direct your consideration to Rotten Tomatoes, which maintains there are solely two “excellent” conflict films and that Sean Connery’s greatest film is “Darby O’Gill and the Little Individuals,” that 23% rating for “Again in Motion” ain’t nice. Rotten Tomatoes is doing little to keep up the success of the movie, which additionally bears a lowly 4.4 out of 10 common ranking. In his two-star evaluation, The Guardian‘s Benjamin Lee wrote, “Whereas it’d show that Diaz nonetheless possesses that very same explicit magic, it additionally exhibits that she needs to be much more discerning with how she chooses to share it.” “Again in Motion” actually looks like an odd alternative for Diaz’s large return to filmmaking, however then, the viewers numbers seem to recommend in any other case.
Living proof: Jack Black really forgot he was in a Christmas film with Diaz which just lately noticed a resurgence on Prime Video for Christmas 2024. Whereas “The Vacation” did not fare all that significantly better critically than “Again in Motion,” it has a sure allure of its personal, largely due to Diaz’s personal inherent charisma, which is on full show within the romantic comedy. As such, the revival of “The Vacation” in 2024 was arguably a greater return for the actor than “Again in Motion,” which, with its meta title, looks like precisely the type of factor Netflix’s ungodly AI algorithms would churn out after crunching the viewership numbers.