Chris Hemsworth’s ‘Heat’ Replacement Officially Steals a New Prime Video Milestone

The last few years have been absurdly busy for Chris Hemsworth, who is now over three years removed from his last solo Thor movie. Hemsworth reunited with Thor: Ragnarök director Taika Waititi for Thor: Love and Thunder, but the film came out of the gates with poor reviews as many critics and fans felt it leaned too much into the silliness and less into the seriousness of Hemsworth’s character.

Hemsworth will return as Thor later this year in Avengers: Doomsday, but he is not yet confirmed for a role in the follow-up, Avengers: Secret Wars, which is coming to theaters in 2028. There is growing speculation that Hemsworth’s Thor will be one of the victims of Doctor Doom in the film, which would be a good way to establish the high stakes for the team-up movie.

Between this myriad of Marvel releases, though, Chris Hemsworth is still finding the time to star in new projects. Earlier this year, he reunited with his long-time Marvel co-star Mark Ruffalo for Crime 101, the new Heat replacement film also starring Halle Berry and Nick Nolte. The film left theaters after grossing only $72 million at the global box office, falling well short of its estimated break-even point calculated using its $90 million budget, but it has since gone on to become one of the most-watched movies of the entire year on Prime Video. Crime 101 is still hanging around in the top 10 in a few countries, months after its debut, and the film has now been in the top 10 for over 200 days on the platform. Barry Keoghan also has a small role in Crime 101.

Four criminal masterminds. One of them was always going to be yours.
Here is who comes for you, why they picked you out of everyone available, and what they want from
the encounter.

Your nemesis does not want to beat you. He wants to know you
completely, and he is patient enough to wait for it. The frightening part is how good the
conversation is.

• Lecter is the most dangerous kind of opponent: the one who finds you interesting. He
  never raises his voice, because he has never needed to.
• You keep a great deal to yourself and you are careful about what you show. That reserve
  is exactly the door he would knock on.
• The films understood something other thrillers missed. The horror is not the violence.
  It is being perfectly understood by the wrong person.
• He would be unfailingly polite about all of it. That is the worst part.

Your nemesis is not after money, territory or revenge. He is
after a demonstration, and you are the person he has chosen to prove his point on.

• The Joker only picks opponents who believe in something. Your decency is not a defence
  against him. It is the entire reason he showed up.
• He has no plan you can predict and nothing you can take away, which removes every tool
  you would normally reach for.
• His whole argument is that you are one bad day away from being him, and you would spend
  the rest of your life proving him wrong.
• He would call it a magic trick. You would call it the worst night of your life.

Your nemesis respects you, which sounds flattering until you work
out what it means. He chose you because nobody else was worth his time.

• Moriarty is the original criminal mastermind, the template every later one borrows from:
  a mind the equal of the hero’s, pointed the wrong way.
• You enjoy being the cleverest person in the room. He is counting on exactly that, and he
  has already built the room.
• This is the rare nemesis who would be genuinely disappointed if you lost badly. He needs
  the game to be worth playing.
• It ends the way these things always end. Two people, one problem, and only one way down.

Your nemesis has no personal interest in you whatsoever, and that
is precisely what makes him unsurvivable. You are not a rival. You are a stop on the way.

• Chigurh does not negotiate, gloat or explain. He arrives, he asks one question, and the
  answer was decided long before you opened your mouth.
• You trust yourself to handle things. He is the one problem in the world that has no
  interest in how capable you are.
• No Country for Old Men rewrote the screen villain by removing the thing audiences
  quietly rely on: the sense that talking might work.
• Call it. He will wait.

Here’s What Else Is Hot on Prime Video Right Now

The most popular show in the world right now is the second season of The Terminal List, starring Chris Pratt. To take the spot, The Terminal List had to dethrone Carrie, the new horror thriller show inspired by the novel of the same name by Stephen King. Both the flagship Reacher show and its first spin-off, Neagley, are also sitting handily in the Prime Video top 10 right now. One of the most-watched movies in the world on Prime Video at the time of writing is Love of Your Life, which stars Lanterns veteran Aaron Pierre and The Night Agent‘s Gabriel Basso.

Check out Crime 101 on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Chris Hemsworth’s future projects.

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