Congratulations, you've just made sure that Netflix makes even more terrible movies from Adam Sandler

Adam Sandler deserves much more than Adam Sandler asks him to do sometimes.

The comic actor – and his outstanding stand-up talent – is a gifted dramatic actor and has revealed himself capable of performing some of the most heart-wrenching comedies over the years. Unfortunately, there is an almost direct correlation between the quality of his films and the few who will see them.

Punch Drunk Love? Great, but it did not pay anything. Funny people? Beautiful, touching, funny – has not made his budget. Regulate on me? Great, but not profitable. There is a pretty well established model of what's going on over and over again. And yet, when he makes Grown Ups movies, people flock to see them. Damn, Jack & Jill doubled his budget. Something is very, very broken.

In summary, when Sandler signed his contract with Netflix, the company always wanted him to do what people want to watch. Regardless of critical reception, we would have more material from Grown Ups and smaller gems such as The Meyerowitz Stories (new and selected) would be rare.

Until now, this approach has spawned a great movie (just mentioned there) and a series of movies that read like this: The Ridiculous 6, The Do-Over, Sandy Wexler, The Week Of and now Murder Mystery. If you think this sounds like a time of fun, you are the reason why good movies are not made.

Her latest film – Murder Mystery with Jennifer Aniston – is a mediocre comedy, made up of numbers and numbers, that makes the laughter pale and works hard to justify its existence. He does not have the complexity, the pathos or the charm of Sandler's best work, whether drama or comedy. He's not even the old Sandler guy that everyone fell in love with in his early days, while there was something of the vulnerability erased in his bright eyes (we still see him in his stand -up). It is only a machine producing a production line of meh.

And the main line, of course, is that it's an extremely successful movie in terms of Netflix. The company has just released details that confirm that the comedy was viewed by 30.87 million accounts during its first three days. These are 30.87 million people who watched at least 70% of the film, making it the most-watched movie after the release of Netflix, surpbading Bright by almost three times and beating the 26 million Bird's. s of his first week. If the trajectory continued after these first three days, she could have done Bird Box twice.

Seriously, what's going on?

This is not an offensively bad movie and congratulations to Netflix and Adam Sandler for enriching it with this formula, but at some point we must all look at each other (because, yes, you can not write such things without be one of the viewers) and wonder if we could be the bad guys.