Alan Ritchson’s War Machine Drops as Nobody 2 Tops Netflix

Alan Ritchson’s sci-fi action film War Machine opened to generally solid reception, holding approval ratings near 70% from critics and 68% from audiences. The movie spent its first two weeks as Netflix’s most-watched film, but it slipped in its third week in the US after being overtaken by the newcomer Nobody 2, which only arrived on the service two days earlier.

Ritchson stars as an unnamed Staff Sergeant known as “81,” an Afghan war veteran who survives a deadly encounter with the Taliban and enrolls in brutal Ranger training to honor fallen comrades. The action centers on that grueling journey, which escalates when an elite exercise becomes a fight for survival against an alien threat.

Reviewers have praised Ritchson’s physical performance even as some critics fault the story’s formulaic elements; one reviewer noted clear nods to Predator while calling the central robotic threat fairly routine but ultimately a fun streaming adventure.

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