Tom Hanks’ Divisive New Movie Already on Netflix: Is It Really a Flop?

2024 was surprisingly full of grand and ambitious releases that bombed in the box office, with highly anticipated movies like Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie Á Deux or Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis receiving nothing but harsh criticism and quietly landing on streaming after a failure in the theatres.

This week has marked yet another big flop’s arrival on digital platforms as Robert Zemeckis’ drama Here is, well, here for you to see whether it was destined to be crashed by critics or in fact deserved better.

Here Is Already Available for Watching on Netflix

The movie was set to arrive on the streaming’s platform on January 30, so it’s safe to presume that Netflix’s viewers can already give it a watch.

Starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, Here is a never-seen-before type of movie where the plot line expands to the events of several centuries and shows the life of a single house that saw many families’ drama unfolding in there.

The storyline focuses more on Hanks and Wright’s Richard and Margaret though, going from Richard being a kid, then a teenager and a grown-up man who brings Margaret to his home, with the couple’s later issues resulting in another family taking the house.

Here Is a New Cinematic Experience That Never Saw Its Predicted Acclaim

Shot with a single camera angle, Here gradually collects the pieces of one long story like a puzzle, a new cinematic conception that, as Zemeckis might have thought, would potentially win the viewers over.

However, things didn’t go according to plan, and Here ended up being a complete critical and commercial flop, earning only $15 million with the initial budget of $50 million and securing a score of 38% based on around 170 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.

Still, Here did a bit better with the audiences that granted the movie a rating of 59%. Naturally, there’s a chance for the film to make it up to its theatrical failures since it’s now likely to become a popular watch on Netflix.