A Universally-Trashed Spy Thriller Covertly Becomes a Major Netflix Hit

Even the worst movies have proven more than capable of finding an audience on streaming, setting a unanimous critical drubbing to one side in order to conquer the viewership charts on any given platform. The latest to battle back against a one-sided trashing is espionage adventure Code Name: Tiranga, which has overcome its shoddy reputation to soar on Netflix.

Once again underlining that the platform’s subscribers are a great deal less discerning and more forgiving than critics, the widely-panned spy thriller has become the 11th most-watched feature on the streamer’s global rankings, per FlixPatrol. That’s a statistic made all the more impressive by the inarguable fact writer and director Ribhu Dasgupta’s latest is one of 2022’s absolute worst.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a zero percent score, with not a single positive review to be found. Over on IMDb, things are slightly better while also being a million miles away from encouraging, looking at Code Name: Tiranga‘s paltry user average of just 2.5/10 with almost a thousand votes having been cast.

The half-baked story of infiltration and subterfuge finds Parineeti Chopra’s elite operative sent on a globetrotting mission to reclaim and take down a terrorist responsible for a deadly attack. While there are a couple of decently-staged action sequences along the way, you keep expecting Code Name: Tiranga to finally knuckle down and put the pedal to the metal, only for the interminable 134-minute epic to drag its heels right until the credits come up. Of course, that’s done nothing to dissuade Netflix crowds from checking it out en masse.

Even the worst movies have proven more than capable of finding an audience on streaming, setting a unanimous critical drubbing to one side in order to conquer the viewership charts on any given platform. The latest to battle back against a one-sided trashing is espionage adventure Code Name: Tiranga, which has overcome its shoddy reputation to soar on Netflix.

Once again underlining that the platform’s subscribers are a great deal less discerning and more forgiving than critics, the widely-panned spy thriller has become the 11th most-watched feature on the streamer’s global rankings, per FlixPatrol. That’s a statistic made all the more impressive by the inarguable fact writer and director Ribhu Dasgupta’s latest is one of 2022’s absolute worst.

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a zero percent score, with not a single positive review to be found. Over on IMDb, things are slightly better while also being a million miles away from encouraging, looking at Code Name: Tiranga‘s paltry user average of just 2.5/10 with almost a thousand votes having been cast.

The half-baked story of infiltration and subterfuge finds Parineeti Chopra’s elite operative sent on a globetrotting mission to reclaim and take down a terrorist responsible for a deadly attack. While there are a couple of decently-staged action sequences along the way, you keep expecting Code Name: Tiranga to finally knuckle down and put the pedal to the metal, only for the interminable 134-minute epic to drag its heels right until the credits come up. Of course, that’s done nothing to dissuade Netflix crowds from checking it out en masse.