Netflix’s The Last Days of American Crime branded ‘so bad it should be illegal’ – but viewers can’t stop watching

NETFLIX’S The Last Days of American Crime has been panned by critics and declared ‘so bad it should be illegal’ – but viewers can’t stop watching it. Despite being slammed by practically everyone who has watched it, the film is still in the top 10 most watched list on the streaming platform. The action thriller […]

NETFLIX’S The Last Days of American Crime has been panned by critics and declared ‘so bad it should be illegal’ – but viewers can’t stop watching it.

Despite being slammed by practically everyone who has watched it, the film is still in the top 10 most watched list on the streaming platform.

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The action thriller film is directed by Olivier Megaton from a screenplay written by Karl Gajdusek, based on Rick Remender and Greg Tocchini’s 2009 graphic novel of the same name.

David Ehrlich, writing for renowned film review platform IndieWire, called the 149-minute film “So Bad It Should Be Illegal”.

The film critic hilariously dissects the plot pulling apart every storyline and scene that he takes offence to – so all of it.

At one point he writes: “The film mostly vacillates between too stupid and “too soon” until the whole thing smears into white noise — the equivalent of a sharp radio signal buzzing around your head.”

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IndieWire isn’t the only film review site to pan the heist movie with Rotten Tomatoes giving it an incredible 0% rating.

However, despite being blasted by all who have watched it, The Last Days of American Crime is the top movie on Netflix across Europe, including France, Germany, Italy, Sweden.

At one point it even climbed to number four in the U.K.

One disgruntled viewer tweeted: “Despite knowing I should not watch things that are trending, I watched The Last Days of American Crime, which was thoroughly terrible. A big flaccid blob of a movie, with no momentum and terrible structure, enamored of violence and characters it does not realize are detestable

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