We are facing another of those immediate launches that become a resounding success on the part of Netflix. Sometimes, it includes curious cases, such as the psychological thriller that sweeps Netflix 17 years after its release in theaters or the most viewed film on Netflix that premiered with 0% positive reviews.
Other times, however, you see it coming. Normally, having a well-known cast is more than enough to be among the most viewed films on Netflix. There we have Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence with ‘Don’t Look Up’, Dwayne Johnson, Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds with ‘Red Alert’ or Sandra Bullock with the thriller ‘In the Blind’.
Now we have ‘Detonantes’, the action thriller starring Jessica Alba, Mark Webber (‘Green Room’) and Anthony Michael Hall (‘Halloween Kills’), which has entered the red platform like a real storm, placing itself in the TOP1.
And if something sells more than having a big star as the headliner, it is telling a story that revolves around revenge. We don’t have to go far because, in addition to this film, among the ten most viewed films on Netflix we have ‘Revenge Night’, the remake of the 2011 French film ‘Nuit blanche’ starring Jamie Foxx and Michelle Monaghan; ‘Revenge’, the first installment of the trilogy by Liam Neeson; and ‘Jason Bourne’, Matt Damon’s fourth installment in which his character seeks…revenge.
In this intense thriller directed by Mouly Surya (‘Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts’), Alba plays a special forces soldier who, after returning home in search of answers about her father’s death, discovers a dangerous conspiracy.
After a season more focused on her role as a businesswoman, although with some specific work such as the series ‘LA’s Finest: Los Angeles Police’, ‘Detonantes’ marks the great return of Alba after living a time of splendor more than twenty years ago with the series ‘Dark Angel’ and with her role in ‘Sin City’ and ‘Fantastic Four’ and its sequel, where she played Sue Storm. Two films that, as many remember, are very far from reaching that juicy list of the best superhero films in history.
Although ‘Detonantes’ is still a typical action film with a plot seen ad nauseum, Alba’s charisma manages to keep afloat an entertaining film for a hot summer afternoon in which the excellent doses of action stand out.
Jorge is an expert in movies, series and comics. His favorite genres are horror and science fiction, the perfect balance between the thunderous scream of the slasher and the disturbing silence of space and, although he flirts with auteur cinema in search of that hidden gem far from the mainstream, he does not hide, His thing is commercial cinema from Marvel, Star Wars, DC and Pixar.
This restless journalist discovered the mysticism of ‘Twin Peaks’ a few years ago and, since then, it has been just another concept trapped inside David Lynch’s head. When he manages to escape from the Black Lodge, he revisits the filmography of the master Carpenter, loses himself again between the pages of Moore and Gibbons’ ‘Watchmen’ or sets out in search of new emotions in miniseries format.
After his brief stint in media such as TVE, RNE and the TV and communication section of La Razón, Jorge has spent more than a decade in the delirious world of advertising agencies, where he has had the opportunity to be part of various communication teams. which have allowed him to participate in soirees, events, junkets and various efforts with performers of the stature of Antonio de la Torre, Jared Harris, Kim Dickens, Colman Domingo and Christina Hendricks. He arrived at FOTOGRAMAS in 2022, where he managed to carve out a niche as an editor to write about the most popular series, the best Alfred Hitchcock films or everything related to franchises, reboots, prequels, sequels, sequels and various nonsense of the moment, returning from This forms his passion for journalism and cinema.
Jorge has a degree in journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid, in addition to being a director from the RTVE Institute, where he acquired notions of pre-production, production and post-production of audiovisuals.
