An underrated prison break thriller that tanked spectacularly shivs the Netflix charts


One of the most reliably entertaining cinematic subgenres is the prison break thriller,

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at least if it’s staged and executed to everyone’s satisfaction.

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The Last Castle didn’t quite reach classic territory, but it definitely has its moments,

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even if audiences turned their backs on it to a disastrous degree the first time around.

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Armed with a hefty $72 million budget, Rod Lurie’s accomplished action-packed drama

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died an agonizingly painful death at the box office,

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although part of that could be attributed to the controversy surrounding a promo poster

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featuring an upside-down American flag that was designed to

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market a movie scheduled to hit theaters little over a month after 9/11.

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