Every week Netflix released the top 10 Global list of TV Series and films based on the highest number of views. Here are the list covered for the week March 7 – March 13, 2022 around the world.
1. The Adam Project (Audience Hours Viewed – 92,430,000)
The Adam Project has it all: romance and lost love. The meaning of death and what a life well lived entails. The nature of memory. Learning to love yourself (yep!). And spaceships and robots and light sabers and all sorts. It has views
So it’s a bit messy as a film. But it’s also unapologetically good natured. The film contains mostly stylized violence with little gore, a scene of marital sensuality, several profanities, numerous milder oaths as well as considerable crude and crass language.
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2. The Weekend Away (Audience Hours Viewed – 26,260,000)
The Weekend Away is a new Netflix mystery thriller with very wide appeal. It could have been made as a much darker crime-thriller than it ultimately is.
It is not a badly made movie, but stories like these have been told so many times, that they have now lost their lustre.
Netflix has recruited Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester whose iconic role as Blair Waldorf in the mid to late aughts never blossomed into the A-list acting career she deserved, despite her appearing in countless mainstream projects in the years since. Meester shines in this role as Beth, and she perfectly sells the part of a stressed, confused young mother, even for those who only know her for playing a spoiled, manipulative teenager in Gossip Girl. She plays the character as a very laidback and positive person, who does find her fighting spirit very fast, when met with various challenges.
Overall, for entertainment value (and a kick-ass Leighton Meester), this Netflix thriller is worth checking out.
3. Against The Ice (Audience Hours Viewed – 12,730,000)
Against The Ice is thrilling and heartbreaking in equal measure. It showcases the power of resiliency and grit while managing to balance it against the vulnerability and strife that comes with trying to survive.
The fact that Against the Ice is a true story is hard to believe. Not because there is anything absurd, but because it’s hard to understand how much a person can endure. And none of this would be possible without stunning and emotional performances from Coster-Waldau and Cole.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) and Joe Cole (Peaky Blinders) are perfect in the two lead roles. The two men are extremely different which comes across in many ways.
Against the Ice is now available on Netflix.
4. Shrek (Audience Hours Viewed – 10,380,000)
A fine example of a kids’ movie that subtly caters to adults, Shrek tells a classic fairy tale story that weaves a perfect line between kid and adult humor. When the evil Lord Farquaad bans all fairy tale creatures from his realm, they find refuge on a swamp where a solitude-loving ogre lives. Desperate to get these creatures off his land, Shrek (Mike Myers) cuts a deal with Farquaad to save the beautiful Princess Fiona (Cameron Diaz) from a dragon and return her to Farquaad’s castle to be wed. Fiona, however, has a secret that puts the deal in jeopardy.
5. Shrek 2 (Audience Hours Viewed – 9,900,000)
“Shrek 2” looks great, with cutting-edge computer animation, even better than the first one. This film has some great themes, including Shrek abandoning his swamp for Fiona’s happiness, and Fiona’s love for Shrek regardless of his appearance. Donkey also remains a loyal friend to Shrek. In addition, the movie has new interesting character, Puss in Boots, played by Antonio Banderas.
Shrek 2 maybe computer-generated, but its innate heart and glorious senses of mischief make it one of the best and most humane movies of the summer.
The film also include some mild, crude language and due to this plus a few fights, we recommend the film for ages twelve and above.
6. A Madea Homecoming (Audience Hours Viewed – 9,030,000)
Tyler Perry’s A Madea Homecoming is a 2022 American comedy film produced, written, and directed by Tyler Perry and his second film to be released by Netflix.
Perry’s infamous character goes “all out” this time and the results, while over-the-top to be sure, are also worthy of Madea earning a whole new slew of fans. That’s because Madea is just as funny as she’s ever been in the new picture.
7. Shooter (Audience Hours Viewed – 7,390,000)
Shooter is an American drama television series based on the 2007 film of the same name and the 1993 novel Point of Impact by Stephen Hunter. The show stars Ryan Phillippe in the lead role of Bob Lee Swagger, a retired U.S. Marine Corps sniper living in seclusion who is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the President.
Shooter was never standout drama, but it was often solid work, affording brutal fight scenes, tense confrontations and some fun sniper-centric action.
8. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Audience Hours Viewed – 5,910,000)
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is a gorgeous, animated comic book-style origin story of Miles Morales’ Spider-Man. The movie offers a surprisingly fresh take on a seemingly over-exposed superhero. With excellent and innovative visuals, and a heart-warming yet intensely funny script, this movie will entertain audiences of all ages, even those who might not usually enjoy superhero movies.
The best Spider-Man movies convincingly tap into the spirit of the character, his divine earnestness. He’s not unbeatable. He doesn’t have a magic hammer. He doesn’t have a magic suit. He’s just a kid who wants to do the right thing, who will risk anything to save all of us.
And no Spider-Man movie should ever leave its audience asking: What made this one different?
Rest assured, true believers: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won’t let you down.
9. Despicable Me 2 (Audience Hours Viewed – 5,720,000)
The most successful animated movie of the last decade that wasn’t made by Pixar and didn’t star a grumpy green ogre, Despicable Me strikes a delicate balance between adorable and deplorable.
Despicable Me 2 is a charmer, though less despicable. It is a tamer movie than its predecessor, which may irk some of that movie’s fans. A better title might be “Delightful Me,” given that Gru is entirely devoted to his kids and seems disinclined to revisit his former profession. People change. Expecting Gru to be the same abominable shadow-dweller is like assuming close friends will still want to go out every night once they’ve gotten married and moved to the suburbs.
10. Coach Carter (Audience Hours Viewed – 5,450,000)
The film is not really about basketball that is just a backdrop. It is more about Ken Carter who becomes head coach of his old high school, where the players are rude, disrespectful and ill disciplined.
Samuel L. Jackson gives a rousing performance as Coach Carter, an intensely moral man whose charisma and principles make him a formidable force in the lives of these wayward adolescents.
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