AKeanu Reevescrime thriller has become a streaming success six years later. Reeves is a divisive actor who achieved success after his breakthrough role in the 1989 time travel comedyBill & Ted’s Excellent Adventureand became a superstar after leading the Wachowskis' 1999 sci-fi blockbusterThe Matrix. His performance style has been divisive, as he has earned nine Razzie award nominations, followed by a Razzie Redeemer Award nomination and a spot at No. 4 on theNew York Times' list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
While he is best known for his action roles in titles such asSpeed, theMatrixfranchise, and theJohn Wickfranchise,Keanu Reeves movieshave taken on a huge variety of genres. This includesstarring opposite hisSpeedco-star Sandra Bullock in the time travel romanceThe Lake House, playing Jonathan Harker in the Francis Ford Coppola horror movieBram Stoker’s Dracula, taking on the role of Don John in the 1993 Shakespeare adaptationMuch Ado About Nothing, and more.
Siberia Has Found New Streaming Success
The Keanu Reeves Movie Climbed A Major Chart
Keanu Reeves’Siberiahas climbed a major streaming chart. The 2018 crime thriller movie, which debuted between the releases of the second and thirdJohn Wickmovies, was poorly reviewed,earning 12% from critics and 16% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. Its commercial performance is unknown, because it only had a limited theatrical run before its VOD release. It starred Reeves as a diamond seller who gets caught up in criminal dealings in Russia, a story penned by Oscar-nominatedA Simple Planscreenwriter Scott Smith and brought to the screen byFrank & Loladirector Matthew Ross.
The cast ofSiberiaalso included Ana Ularu, Pasha D. Lychnikoff, Veronica Ferres, and Molly Ringwald.
During the week of November 15,Siberiaclimbed up theParamount+Top 10 chartin the United States, finding a second life on streaming. It landed at No. 7 on the streaming service’s movie chart. It was the highest-ranked non-holiday movie on the chart to be released before the 2020s, as it was behind only this year’sTransformers One(No. 1),IF(No. 2), andA Quiet Place: Day One(No. 6), 2023’sPaw Patrol: The Mighty Movie(No. 3), 2022’sTop Gun: Maverick(No. 5), and the seasonal titleBad Santa(No. 4).
Our Take On The Siberia Streaming Success
Keanu Reeves Is Connecting Even More With Audiences In 2024
It seems likely thatSiberiais making more of a splash on streaming more than half a decade after its release becauseKeanu Reeves' star has only risen in the meantime. While he has been a notable actor since the 1990s, since the movie’s release, theJohn Wickstarhas gone on to appear in two more movies in the iconic action franchise, the legacy sequelsBill & Ted Face the MusicandThe Matrix Resurrections, the record-breaking Pixar sequelToy Story 4, and the Netflix rom-comAlways Be My Maybe, in which he played himself.
