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It’s very rare for a movie to be released in two parts simultaneously, and on top of that, even rarer for both parts to take over streaming charts. But the rarest seems to have happened. Ryan Phillippe-starrer films are designed to be watched back-to-back, and both the installments are currently at and positions on Paramount+ in the Top 10 Movie charts in the U.S.
As per FlixPatrol, both the films were released 24 days ago. Dracula, We’re The Millers, and Scary Movie follow shortly behind at , , and , respectively. The two-part action thriller duology follows Danny Beckett (Ryan Phillippe), a retired Army Special Forces operative, as he tries to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter, Alex (Amélie Hoeferle), during a road trip and camping excursion. Then the daughter gets abducted by a vengeful former community he fought once before, and Danny gets launched into a relentless hunt.
The official titles are One Mile: Chapter One and One Mile: Chapter Two. Both films have the exact same core plot. Chapter One circles Danny trying to reconnect with his daughter, both of them taking a camping trip, and Alex’s kidnapping launches him into a full-on Taken-style chase to rescue her. The second film begins after Alex is in university and Danny is waiting for her to return during the holidays. But she gets abducted by the same group again, and then Danny goes into a final showdown with the cult led by Stanley Dixon (C. Thomas Howell) once again.
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Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
Both ‘One Mile’ Films Have Received Poor Reviews
One Mile: Chapter One currently has a 5.7 rating on IMDB and the sophomore installment has a lower rating of 5.0 (at the time of writing). On Rotten Tomatoes, neither installment has received enough reviews for a Tomatometer yet but Chapter One‘s audience score is 42% at the time of writing. Things, however, are looking tighter for Chapter Two. It currently has an audience score of only 12%. The reason for that mediocre-to-poor reception seems to be the same core plot in both films.
One Mile: Chapter One and One Mile: Chapter Two are available to stream on Paramount+ and currently trending at the top of movie charts in the U.S. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
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