The Rhythm Section (2020) on Netflix
R20201h 49mActionDramaMysteryThriller
Three years after a plane crash kills her family, Stephanie Patrick is a drug-addicted sex worker in London. A journalist tells her the crash was a bombing, and she wants revenge.
- Netflix2.8/5
- IMDb5.4/1021,583 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes29%
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Plot summary
Stephanie Patrick lost her family in a plane crash. Three years on, she lives in a London brothel and uses drugs. A journalist, Keith Proctor, tells her the crash was a terrorist bombing that the government covered up, and she moves into his home to read his research. His material points to Reza, an engineering student in the city, as the maker of the bomb. Stephanie buys a gun from the black market and goes to find him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Rhythm Section (2020)
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- During post-production, EON's Broccoli and Wilson clashed with director Reed Morano and Lively over the kind of film to make: Paramount expected a Bond-style movie with a female lead, while EON wanted a slower, character-focused Euro-noir like La Femme Nikita, and EON won.
- Blake Lively broke her knuckle on the film set, halting production for six months, and insurance covered the extra costs the delay created.
- A late-2018 test screening in Sherman Oaks reportedly returned some of the worst results in the studio's history, so Paramount cut the film's advertising budget and pushed its release to February 22, 2019.
- It debuted to $2.8 million, the worst opening weekend ever for a film playing in over 3,000 theaters, and was estimated to lose the studio $30-40 million.
