Tran Thanh's "Godfather" received poor marks abroad, what did international critics say?

Not as successful as the domestic market, "The Godfather" in the country was severely criticized.

The Godfather of Tran Thanh is still the top 1 film at the Vietnamese box office. Not only showing in the country, Tran Thanh also brought the film to "beat the country", making the audience quite curious about how a hundred billion Vietnamese film is evaluated in a foreign land.

The Godfather was first released in the US from May 28, 2021. The film proved itself to be a formidable competitor on the revenue track when it earned $ 350,000 in the first 3 days despite facing many difficulties from the epidemic situation and Hollywood blockbuster titles. Not to mention, the US gross of The Godfather after 2 weeks of screening is 820,000 USD. With the expansion of screening from 19 theaters in the first week, 38 theaters in the second week and 45 theaters in the third week, the film has surpassed the $1 million mark in the US.

At that time, The Godfather entered the top 10 highest-grossing films of the week and had the top ticketing rates in cinemas.

Despite achieving huge sales, The Godfather was unpopular with international critics. According to the film review site Rotten Tomatoes, the film received a 98% rating from the general audience, but only received a 29% rating from critics with 7 reviews, of which 5 were critical and received negative reviews. considered bad.

"Even the local cultural identity can't save this film's excessive drama and humor," - quoted from Variety.

"All the contradictions in the script are nested in the background of a humorous sound that helps manipulate the emotions of the audience, in the most pathetic way you can imagine. Every joke is a joke. ended and punctuated with a very silly tune" - quoted from Deadline Hollywood Daily.

"The Godfather is too overcrowded when it opens up too many exploitation directions at once like a TV series. It makes the audience feel like going from one work to another, ignoring the subtlety and consistency. about color" - quoted from the South China Morning Post.

If compared with another Vietnamese film also premiered in the US, Hai Phuong by Ngo Thanh Van, it can be seen that The Godfather's score is much lower. On Rotten Tomatoes, Hai Phuong has a 95% rating and received many compliments from 22 reviews.

On Vietnamese social networks, this information is being transmitted strongly by the audience. Many conflicting comments were made around the story of The Godfather being underestimated by international experts, but highly appreciated by the audience. However, if we look at the audience's comments on Rotten Tomatoes, we can see a lot of Vietnamese names. Most likely the figure "98% from the mass audience" is mostly from Vietnamese or overseas Vietnamese living abroad.

Talking about The Godfather, the film has set a series of unprecedented records in Vietnamese cinema. One of them must be mentioned as:

Vietnamese movies have the highest sneakshow revenue of all time

In just 6 hours of the first sneakshow day, Godfather brought an impressive achievement, reaching the revenue milestone of 10.6 billion VND. With this achievement, The Godfather has become the highest-grossing Vietnamese film of all time and the second highest-grossing movie in Vietnam, after Avengers: Endgame.

Vietnamese movies reach 100 billion the fastest of all time

With the rapid growth in revenue, 100 billion may not be a surprising number for The Godfather, but this is a proud milestone for any Vietnamese movie. And The Godfather has achieved it after less than 4 days of sneakshow - an achievement that no Vietnamese blockbuster has achieved before.

Earning 1 billion dong for every hour of premiere

In just the first 2.5 days, "The Godfather" brought in an extremely high revenue: 62 billion VND. According to daily data, the film has "pocketed" 1 billion VND per hour. This is a huge number, breaking many previous records of Vietnamese cinema.

Exceeded the revenue milestone of 150 billion after 1 week of early release

With its terrible attraction, the number 150 billion was also unharmed and the film reached this milestone right on the first official release date, after 7 days in theaters.

Fastest 200 billion bucks of all time

After a series of records were established, with 9 days of release, The Godfather officially reached the revenue milestone of 200 billion. With this achievement, Tran Thanh's Godfather surpassed Crab Lai, Wife Bau, Hai Phuong.

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