The Whisper Man has landed on Netflix, and Robert De Niro’s new crime thriller has already pushed its way to No. 1 on the streamer’s US Top 10 movie chart. That kind of exposure hasn’t brought much goodwill with it, though. The film is sitting at 45% with audiences and 41% with critics on Rotten Tomatoes, which tells you pretty clearly what’s going on here: people are pressing play more than they’re actually loving it.
Based on Alex North’s bestselling novel, The Whisper Man centers on a widowed crime writer and his young son, who relocate to a town still marked by the legacy of a serial killer known as The Whisper Man. De Niro plays the retired detective drawn back into another investigation, and the supporting cast includes Adam Scott, Michelle Monaghan, and Michael Keaton.
If De Niro, the gloomy premise, and the prestige-heavy cast are what got your attention, this could still work as a late-summer watch. But the first wave of reactions hasn’t been especially kind. A lot of them say The Whisper Man feels too familiar, leans hard on stock serial-killer material, and hasn’t sparked much of a critics-versus-audiences divide. We’ll see, over time, how it stacks up against the novel, how it lands with viewers outside the US, and where it ends up ranking among De Niro’s recent streaming releases.
The Whisper Man is streaming on Netflix now.
Author: Chennon Kyle "CK" Santaren
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