Amazon he pulls himself together regarding the original content which produces and presents on its platform, Prime Video. A situation from which it started with a great disadvantage compared to Netflix, but which little by little is reduce this distance largely due to the absorption a few years ago of MGM (Metro Goldwyn-Mayer). To the point of having it between the eyebrows, powerful franchises (although underused) like The Rings of Power, Batman: The Caped Crusader either To fall. However, beyond these recognized licenses, the platform of the company founded by Jeff Bezos is also involved in genre stories and in this case, it has just experienced real success with a new thriller released a week ago.
The CEO of the “big red N”, Ted Sarandosasked other companies to be more transparent with their internal data. Well, it is true that the market leader is the only one to offer a quarterly report with his most viewed feature filmscounting the number of reproductions and their response in different countries around the world. Unlike its main competitors, who tend to group these proposals into a common category called “trendy cinema” or similar. A trend which will gradually disappear, since one of the agreements resulting from the actors’ strike was the need for transparency much more important which would serve as a measure of this repayable success to those involved in the projects. Unfortunately, at the moment we still have to turn to external platforms and websites that measure these audiences on most video on demand brands. Now the latest data on Main video They place their new thriller as number 1 in 83 countries.
A new thriller from Jo Nesbø
Talk about Joe Nesbo is to cite one of the greatest references in European detective fiction. The Norwegian writer, in addition to being the author of the book series Harry Holecreated a whole series of adventures and characters that represent this new thriller that actually feeds on black original born from the pen of Raymond Chandler, reproduced endlessly on celluloid. However, Amazon’s latest proposal is based in part on one of Nesbø’s latest books: “The Jealous Man”. Material translated onto the small screen with the title of sun of righteousness.
Internationally known as Killer heatthe film directed by Philippe Lacôte puts us in the shoes of Nick Balian American private detective living as an expatriate in Greece. But as in any story of this type, Bali finds himself confronted with a seemingly simple case which will become more and more complicated as the plot progresses. Concretely, this dog specialized in human behavior is responsible for investigating the accidental death of a young billionaire named Leo Vardakis. Faced with this, the police report does not convince his sister-in-law, who therefore ends up calling on Bali’s services.
An investigation full of jealousy and powerin the heavenly coat of the Mediterranean which has managed to conquer Prime Video subscribers according to Flixpatrol. A company responsible for measuring streaming audiences and which awards different numbers of points for each first place on each list. In the case of sun of righteousnessthe figure exceeded a few days ago 1,000 points. This data is considerably high when compared with other supposed success phenomena such as The idea of having you either No time to die. Despite all this, the critical reception of the film was not flattering, reflecting in the specialized press that the story could have given much more of itself. The main attraction therefore lies in his acting section full of stars
A spectacular cast
With all the clichés to respect and under a light course which does not surprise, the triumph of sun of justice This is partly due to its spectacular casting. To start, we have the Golden Globe nominees Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley. The former starred in major Christopher Nolan blockbusters such as Origin either The Dark Knight: The Legend Riseswhile she shone in arthouse dramas such as The descendants or television phenomena of the magnitude of Big little lies. In fact, both already shared the screen in 2016 with the biopic snow.
The rest of the cast is made up of the star of Game of Thrones, Richard Maddenthe British Claire Holman, Babou Ceesay, Billy Clements And Lee Abbeyas main supporting characters. sun of justice It lasts a little over an hour and a half and has been available on Prime Video since September 26.
