Historically speaking, “Red Notice” should be unwatchable.
For starters, Netflix’s previous fall blockbusters have been very bad.
Not just bad in the way that movies are bad, but bad in the way that war crimes are bad — they shouldn’t have been reviewed by critics so much as tried at the Hague.
These are films so bad that Joe Rogan should have spent an episode of his podcast spreading batshit conspiracy theories about how they escaped from the Netflix content labs.
These are films so bad that you half expect to see Forrest Gump stumbling through their crowd shots as part of his accidental journey through America’s defining crises.But at least they were directed by people with strong artistic sensibilities.
“Red Notice,” on the other hand, is the brainchild of Rawson Marshall Thurber, a once-promising comedy director who was more fun to resent for his what if
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