Director David Leitch‘s new movie is shaping up to be a major box-office underperformer, receiving the weakest reviews of the filmmaker’s career. Leitch served as an uncredited co-director on the original John Wick movie and went on to chart his own path in Hollywood, leaving his former creative collaborator Chad Stahelski to oversee the John Wick franchise. After going solo, Leitch directed the hit franchise films Deadpool 2 and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. However, his subsequent films have been rather hit-or-miss.
In 2022, he directed the action-thriller Bullet Train, starring Brad Pitt at the helm of an eclectic ensemble that also included Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Brian Tyree Henry, Joey King, Andrew Koji, and others. Produced on a reported budget of $90 million, the film grossed around $240 million worldwide at the box office and received a 53% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. Two years later, Leitch released the acclaimed action-comedy The Fall Guy, an homage to his previous career as a stunt performer and coordinator.
Starring Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling, the film grossed around $180 million worldwide against a reported budget of $150 million. Although it reportedly lost Universal $50 million, The Fall Guy received an 81% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The reception for Leitch’s latest film, a heist comedy starring Nicholas Hoult, has been considerably worse.
Collider Exclusive · 8 Questions · 2 Minutes Which Member of the Fast Family Are You? Dom · Letty · Roman · Tej
Eight honest questions about how you actually are: what you are like in the group chat, how you host, what you do when a friend lets you down, what people underestimate about you. Answer them and we will tell you which seat at that barbecue table is yours. Four are still free: the one at the head of it, the one who never backs down, the one doing all the talking, and the one who quietly made the whole thing happen.
🏁Dom(Fast & Furious)
🔥Letty(Fast & Furious)
😎Roman(2 Fast 2 Furious)
🛠️Tej(2 Fast 2 Furious)
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What kind of driver are you? Your passengers would answer this differently, and you know it.
02
Who are you in the group chat? Everybody recognises themselves here immediately.
03
What are you like when you host? Hosting exposes people faster than almost anything.
04
How do you react when a friend lets you down? There is no right answer, only a very revealing one.
05
What are you better at than people realise? Pick the one you would quietly agree with.
06
What is the best compliment you could get? Whichever one you want most is the honest answer.
07
How do you like to travel? People are remarkably consistent about this one.
08
What matters most to you in the end? Eight questions in, this is the one that picks your seat.
Grace Is Said You Are…
Four people, four completely different ways of being somebody’s family.
Here is your seat at the table, what the rest of them would rely on you for, and the thing you would
have to watch.
Fast & Furious · Universal · Since 2001
Dominic Toretto
You are the head of the table, and you did not ask for the job so
much as end up holding it. Dom is the gravity of this franchise, which is why the films work
best when everybody else is circling around whatever he has decided.
You define family by who shows up rather than by who is related to you, and you would
defend that definition against anybody.
People bring you their problems because you make a decision and then stand behind it,
which is rarer than it sounds.
Your weakness is the same as your strength, since holding everybody together means you
rarely admit when you need holding yourself.
The franchise finale is currently set for April 2027, and after two decades it is still
built on exactly this one idea.
Fast & Furious · Universal · Since 2001
Letty Ortiz
You are the one who says the thing out loud and then does not
take it back. Letty is the least sentimental person at that table and somehow the most
loyal, which is a combination almost nobody manages.
Your friends know exactly where they stand with you, because you have never once
softened something to make a room more comfortable.
You give loyalty rarely and completely, and betraying it is the one thing you would find
genuinely hard to move past.
Letty is the best driver in the family and the franchise keeps quietly proving it,
usually while somebody else is making a speech.
The risk is that people mistake the bluntness for coldness, when it is actually the most
protective thing about you.
2 Fast 2 Furious · Universal · Since 2003
Roman Pearce
You are the reason anybody remembers the night. Roman talks
first, thinks second and is far more frightened than he lets on, which is precisely what
makes him the most human person in the whole family.
You use volume and jokes the way other people use armour, and the people who know you
well worked that out years ago.
Roman gets the biggest laughs in these films and also the best running gag in the
series, which is his absolute certainty that he is invincible.
You would turn up for a friend without hesitating, complain about it the entire time,
and do it again the following week.
The thing worth watching is how rarely you let anybody see the version of you that is
not performing.
2 Fast 2 Furious · Universal · Since 2003
Tej Parker
You are the one who made the plan work while everybody else was
busy being heroic about it. Tej does not need the credit, which is fortunate, because in
this family the credit tends to go to whoever drove fastest.
You are the person who reads the whole thing properly, spots the problem nobody
mentioned, and has already solved it by the time anyone asks.
Tej and Roman are the best double act in the franchise, and it works because one of them
is genuinely competent and the other is genuinely loud.
Your friends take you slightly for granted, mostly because you have made everything you
do look effortless.
You would rather be the reason it worked than the reason everybody is talking, which is
a rare and quietly powerful preference.
Here’s How Much the New Heist Movie Grossed at the Box Office
We’re talking, of course, about How to Rob a Bank, which debuted theatrically alongside Johnny Depp‘s comeback vehicle, Ebenezer, this week. The film holds a 35% score on Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Frenetic entertainment with a lot on its mind, How to Rob a Bank fights the law but ultimately gets busted less so for its provocative ideas and more for its inability to make them cohere into a satisfying message.”
While Ebenezer topped the domestic box-office chart with more than $20 million, How to Rob a Bank underperformed with less than $5 million against a reported budget of $40 million. This is about as much as Jason Statham‘s recent films have cost to make. Incidentally, Leitch is working with the action icon on his next film, Jason Statham Stole My Bike. Also starring Zoë Kravitz, Anna Sawai, John C. Reilly, and Pete Davidson, How to Rob a Bank is playing in theaters. It’s the second major heist movie of the year after the star-studded Crime 101, which underperformed with $73 million against a reported budget of $90 million. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
