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UPDATE Netflix’s $320 Mil All Star Sci Fi Film Panned By Critics with Just 18% Approval, from “Avengers” Directors

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FRIDAY MARCH 14TH– More reviews lowered the number to 18%.

EARLIER Directors Anthony and Joe Russo, the Russo brothers, made the big trilogy that ended the “Avengers” series. Altogether, the three films made $7 billion worldwide.

Their new movie, “The Electric State,” is so bad Universal gave it to Netflix, which has mostly hidden it from view.

“The Electric State” also happens to carry one of the highest price tags ever for a standalone movie: $320 million.

Are you sitting down?

“The Electric State” has only 22 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. Only 27% of them said it was “fresh.” The reason for the low number of reviews? Until today, no one has seen it, starting with reviewers.

For Netflix, which just announced an $18 billion investment in new movies this year, this one still has to hurt.

“The Electric State” stars Chris Pratt, Oscar winner Ke Huy Quan, Millie Bobby Brown of “Stranger Things,” Jason Alexander from “Seinfeld,” Stanley Tucci, Billy Bob Thornton, the current “Captain America” Anthony Mackie, and Woody Harrelson, among many others. Even former MTV newsman Kurt Loder is listed in the credits as well as a Russo wife.

This boondoggle hits Netflix on March 14th without ever showing up in a theater. One good thing about a robot movie: you don’t have to worry about their old tweets. (It’s a joke.)

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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