Info in Movie News | While all the buzz lately has been around A Minecraft Movie and Sinners, a different kind of movie is making its own waves. The Amateur, starring Rami Malek, has been steadily climbing the box office charts without much noise. It is a reminder that thrillers aimed at mature audiences, like fans of Reacher and Bosch, still have a solid place in theaters.
According to Collider, The Amateur has earned $33 million domestically and an additional $46 million internationally, pushing its global total to $80 million. Considering the movie's reported $60 million production budget, it would need to hit around $120 million worldwide to break even, which seems unlikely. Especially with The Accountant 2 entering theaters this week, competition is heating up. Still, for a movie like The Amateur, box office numbers are only part of the story. Its theatrical run sets the stage for long-term revenue across airlines, hotels, premium video on demand, and of course, streaming platforms.
Directed by James Hawes, who is also famous for his work on TV series like Slow Horses and Black Mirror, the movie adds a cozier and more thoughtful pace to the action thriller genre. When it first came out, the feedback was varied, with a Rotten Tomatoes critic figure of 61 percent, yet the movie fans have enjoyed it and the movie is with a score of 88 percent quite successful. Collider’s review called the movie "a little slower and more introspective than expected, but strong performances and well-executed, if sometimes logic-stretching, twists make it worth watching."
For Rami Malek, The Amateur marks a major return to leading roles. Malek has played high-profile supporting roles in No Time to Die and Oppenheimer after his Best Actor Oscar-winning movie Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018. In The Amateur, he shows how he became a breakout star and carries the movie with a sincere, emotional performance that is very much based on a true guy.
The movie also features Rachel Brosnahan and Laurence Fishburne, adding even more weight to its already solid cast. Breaking even might be a stretch at this point, but if The Amateur can cross the $100 million mark globally, it will be seen as a quiet but definite success. Not every hit needs to be loud, after all. Sometimes, slow and steady wins the race.
The Amateur is now playing in theaters, offering a smart, grown-up thriller experience that is increasingly rare on the big screen.
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