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Forget 'Saving Private Ryan,' Scott Eastwood's 103-Minute War Thriller Is Officially the Biggest Film on Streaming

Nairavoice · Oct 26, 2026 · 5 min read

When it comes to genres of movies that hold up better than others, few genres have as many timeless classics as movies set during WWII. When it comes to iconic WWII movies, some of the first that may come to mind are Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List, but there are hundreds more that hold up just as well, and even memorable TV shows like Band of Brothers. Tom Hanks has been a pioneer of the World War II genre, and not just thanks to his Oscar-worthy performance in Saving Private Ryan. A few years ago, Hanks starred in one of the best straight-to-streaming WWII movies, Greyhound, and he can also be seen narrating the new WWII docuseries, WWII With Tom Hanks, which is streaming on the History Channel.

There have already been a few iconic WWII movies introduced to the world this year, including Pressure, the pre-D-Day drama starring Brendan Fraser and Andrew Scott. The film is now streaming on Peacock after grossing over $30 million at the global box office. Not long after the premiere of Pressure came another WWII hit, Lucky Strike, starring Scott Eastwood and Colin Hanks, son of the great Tom Hanks. Lucky Strike had a much more limited run at the box office, which allowed it to only gross $1.6 million during its entire run, but the film has since found a streaming home on Hulu. Lucky Strike has been one of the most-watched movies of the entire year on Hulu, where it still sits comfortably in the top 10, and it doesn’t look poised to give up its spot anytime soon.

Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.

You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.

The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
against him.
You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
then completely immovable past it.
Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
and turning it into technique rather than noise.
People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
work.

You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.

This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to.
You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
defend it past the point of reason.
You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics.
The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.

You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.

This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left.
You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
administrative error.
You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door.
Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.

You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.

Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
bleeding, and extremely funny about it.
You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
and then it makes you unstoppable.
You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway.
You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.

What Is ‘Lucky Strike’ About?

In addition to Scott Eastwood and Colin Hanks, Lucky Strike also stars Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor as Mrs. Caldwell, Henry Hughes as Dauntless, Taylor John Smith as Bellingham, Kwame Patterson as Maren, Jonathan Yunger as Cash, and more. Marc Frydman wrote the script for the film with Rod Lurie, who also stepped behind the camera to direct the feature. The official synopsis for Lucky Strike, which earned scores of 65% from critics and 69% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows:

“Inspired by true events, Lucky Strike tells the story of one soldier trapped behind enemy lines during the last major German offensive during WWII, what will become known as The Battle of the Bulge. Armed only with his Motorola SCR-300 radio, a new technology only battle-ready near the end of the war, he must use his wits and spy craft to thwart the advancing Nazi Panzer army and find his way back home.”

“Inspired by true events, Lucky Strike tells the story of one soldier trapped behind enemy lines during the last major German offensive during WWII, what will become known as The Battle of the Bulge. Armed only with his Motorola SCR-300 radio, a new technology only battle-ready near the end of the war, he must use his wits and spy craft to thwart the advancing Nazi Panzer army and find his way back home.”

Check out Lucky Strike on Hulu and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of future WWII movies.