The Surprising Netflix Movie That Bumped Extraction From Its Top Spot

Extraction has been extracted from the top spot on Netflix.

Following a heck of a run as the top movie on the streaming service, the Joe Russo-penned, Chris Hemsworth-starring actioner was finally knocked from its perch. The movie doing the knocking: Dangerous Lies, a twisty thriller about a young woman whose life is turned upside down when she receives an unexpected inheritance.

It was a foregone conclusion that Extraction would become one of the most popular original films in the streamer's history. It's the kind of movie that could easily have had a respectable theatrical run; Russo was fresh off co-directing the literal biggest movie of all time in Avengers: Endgame, and Hemsworth was fresh off of starring in it. The flick sported a $65 million budget and, as a co-financed international production, it was shot on location in Thailand and India, giving it a distinctive globe-trotting flavor.

It's also pretty darned good, scoring mostly positive reviews and falling in line with Netflix's viewership expectations. It was expected to have the biggest premiere in the service's history, and what do you know, it did, knocking out previous record holder Bird Box. The movie is so popular that less than two weeks after its release, there's already talk of getting a sequel into production ASAP. So, what kind of an absolute barn burner of a film did it take to knock Extraction out of that top spot?

Well, it's not a big-budget actioner. Instead, Dangerous Lies is a densely plotted thriller featuring faces that are mostly familiar from TV. The flick stars Riverdale's Camila Mendes as a woman named Katie who works as a caretaker for an elderly man played by Elliott Gould. When he passes away, he unexpectedly leaves Katie his entire estate, which happens to include a giant stash of cash found on the property. Katie's husband, Adam, played by Jessie T. Usher from The Boys, is thrilled with the development, being ready to leave their financial struggles behind to start living in the lap of luxury. The situation is complicated, however, by several parties who are interested in Katie's good fortune, including an investigator, an attorney for the deceased, and a shady real estate agent.

Reviews for Dangerous Lies have been mixed, but streaming audiences have absolutely eaten it up, perhaps ready for a change of pace from the big-budget bombast and non-stop, incredibly violent action of Extraction. If that trend continues, Netflix viewers will soon be ready for yet another shifting of the gears, and there are a couple of films climbing the top ten that are coming up fast in Dangerous Lies' rearview mirror.

The strongest candidate to take over the top spot is All Day and a Night, a tense drama from writer-director Joe Robert Cole, who co-scripted Black Panther with Ryan Coogler. The film stars Ashton Sanders, star of the Best Picture Oscar winner Moonlight, as a young man who is arriving for his first day in prison as the film opens. As he does, he looks back on his life, from his troubled childhood to the circumstances leading up to his arrest and incarceration, to try to find a better way forward.

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