The Rotten Tomatoes score has been announced for Jackpot!the new film with John Cena and Awkwafina. The critics are quite divided about the film, the current film music has a bad reputation and the audience rating is not much better either.
On Rotten Tomatoes Jackpot! currently has a score of 41% on the Tomatometer. The audience rating is slightly better, but still miserable 51%. It seems that almost everyone agrees that the film is completely over the top and its humor is not to everyone’s taste. Some critics appreciate the film for its craziness and find it unique and entertaining, although the slight majority of them had a hard time convincing themselves of this.
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“A fresh premise, two great leads and a general willingness to go all out make this an entertaining two-hour film,” says a positive review by Mike McGranaghan of Aisle Seat. Nell Minow of Movie Mom also said, “Jackpot! is a fun and silly film with a stunning cast. Think The Cleansing meets Hunger Games. But funny. Really.”
Jackpot!
is a wonderfully silly roar of a film with a stunning cast.
One of the more negative reviews, however, written by Andrew Parker of The Gate, said: “Despite having two stars with great instincts and chemistry and a comedy legend working behind the camera, the seedy, chaotic Jackpot! is not the sum of its parts.” Robert Taylor of Collider also said in a review: “The film could be called Jackpot!but no one emerges as a winner.”
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The comedy in Jackpot! divides the audience
“Sometimes if you tell too many jokes, you can lose the tension,” Cena said in a recent UPI interview about the film’s comedy. “There’s always a joke, but you don’t want to tell a joke that spoils the tension.” Of his role, Cena added: “I’m supposed to be a perhaps ignorantly virtuous, larger-than-life, smiling face of hope in a place where there’s not a lot of faith in humanity.”
Paul Feig (Ghostbusters: Answer the Call) directed Jackpot! with a screenplay by Rob Yescombe. The film is set in a not too distant future in which it is legal for anyone who has bought a losing lottery ticket to murder a winner and claim the prize. When an unsuccessful actress (Awkwafina, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) wins the lottery, a lottery protection agent (John Cena, Peacemaker) agrees to protect them in exchange for a portion of their profits.
Feig produced along with Joe Roth, Jeff Kirschenbaum and Laura Fischer. The film also stars Ayden Mayeri, Donald Elise Watkins, Sam Asghari, Colson Baker, Simu Liu, Seann William Scott, Bobby Lee and Marian Green.
Jackpot! is now streaming on Prime Video.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
