Almost every week, Netflix adds new original movies to its library. Many of those trends for a week or two before being eclipsed by the latest release. However, some draw huge viewership numbers and enter the streamer’s Top 10 popular movies of all time. It is the list led by the smash-hit animated film K-Pop Demon Hunters and includes other hits such as Red Notice, Carry On, and Don’t Look Up. This year brought its own hit film when Netflix combined two of the most popular genres: science-fiction and action.
The film went on to stay in the top 10 for eight weeks and accumulated 139 million views, totaling 252 million watch hours. Each week brought it closer to the top ten, and it recently broke through. The thriller is now the tenth most-watched Netflix movie of all time, occupying the position previously held by Millie Bobby Brown‘s fantasy hit, Damsel. If subscribers continue tuning in, it could dethrone Ryan Gosling‘s The Gray Man, which has 300,000 more views. And given the recent news, that seems like a strong possibility for the film titled War Machine.
The Alan Ritchson-led film premiered three months ago and was an instant hit. It’s that kind of movie that appeals to many Netflix demographics with its blend of futuristic sci-fi, action, and emotional drama. War Machine follows Ritchson’s character, given the number 81, a Ranger recruit. He joins other recruits in training, but while on their final training stage, they encounter a killing machine that picks them off one by one. With no other moves to make, 81 and the remaining soldiers must outsmart it to survive. And that’s just the beginning.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Personality Quiz Which Sci-Fi Hero Are You Most Like? Paul Atreides · Captain Kirk · Princess Leia · Ellen Ripley · Max Rockatansky
Five iconic heroes. Five completely different ways of facing an impossible universe. One of them shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of refusing to back down. Eight questions will tell you which one.
Paul Atreides
Capt. Kirk
Princess Leia
Ellen Ripley
Max Rockatansky
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How do you lead when the stakes couldn’t be higher? The way you lead under pressure is the most honest thing about you.
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What is your greatest strength in a crisis? The quality that keeps you alive when everything else fails.
03
What is the thing you’d sacrifice everything else for? Your deepest motivation is your truest compass.
04
How do you relate to the people around you? Who you are to others under pressure is who you really are.
05
You’re facing a threat that no one else believes is real. What do you do? How you respond when you’re the only one who sees it defines everything.
06
What has your heroism cost you personally? Every hero pays. The question is what — and whether they’d pay it again.
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How do you feel about the rules of the world you’re in? Every hero has a relationship with the system. What’s yours?
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When everything is on the line, what keeps you going? The answer is the most honest thing about you.
Your Hero Has Been Identified Your Sci-Fi Hero Is…
Your answers point to the iconic sci-fi hero who shares your instincts, your values, and your particular way of facing the impossible.
Arrakis · Dune
Paul Atreides
You carry a weight most people would crumble under — the knowledge of what you’re capable of, and the burden of what you might have to become.
You see further ahead than others and you plan accordingly, even when the vision frightens you.
You are driven by loyalty to your people and a sense of destiny you didn’t ask for but can’t escape.
Paul Atreides is not simply a hero — he is someone who understands the cost of power and chooses to bear it anyway.
That gravity, that willingness to carry what others won’t, is exactly you.
USS Enterprise · Star Trek
Captain Kirk
You lead with instinct, warmth, and an absolute refusal to accept a no-win scenario — because you’ve always believed there’s a third option nobody else has thought of yet.
You take the mission seriously without ever taking yourself too seriously.
Your crew would follow you anywhere, not because you demand it, but because you’ve earned it.
Kirk’s genius isn’t tactical — it’s human. He reads people, bends rules with purpose, and wills outcomes into existence through sheer conviction.
That combination of warmth, audacity, and relentless optimism is unmistakably yours.
The Rebellion · Star Wars
Princess Leia
You are the kind of person who holds the line when everyone else is losing faith — not because you’re fearless, but because giving up simply isn’t something you’re capable of.
You lead through conviction. Your voice carries because your belief is unshakeable.
You gave up everything ordinary the moment you chose the cause, and you’ve never looked back.
Leia is not a supporting character in her own story — she is the moral centre of the entire rebellion.
That same fierce, principled, unbreakable core is what defines you.
The Nostromo · Alien
Ellen Ripley
You are not reckless, not grandiose, and not particularly interested in being anyone’s hero — you just refuse to stop when it matters.
You see threats clearly, you document the truth even when no one listens, and when the time comes you handle it yourself.
Ripley’s heroism is earned, not performed. She doesn’t have a speech — she has a flamethrower and a plan.
You share her composure under the worst possible pressure, and her refusal to pretend the monster isn’t there.
When it counts, you don’t flinch. That’s everything.
The Wasteland · Mad Max
Max Rockatansky
You have been through fire that would break most people — and what came out the other side is something the world underestimates at its peril.
You don’t ask for help, don’t need validation, and don’t wait for anyone to tell you the rules no longer apply.
Your loyalty, when it finally arrives, is absolute — but it’s earned in silence and tested in action, not in words.
Max is not a nihilist. He is someone who lost everything and found, against his will, that he still has something worth protecting.
That bruised, stubborn, ultimately human core is exactly yours.
‘War Machine 2’ Is in the Works
After months of rumors of a sequel, Netflix finally confirmed that a sequel is in the works. Details about what it will entail are not yet clear, but ideally, it would pick up from the final minutes of its predecessor, which revealed that the machine the trainees encountered was just one in a large-scale invasion. The film’s writer and director, Patrick Hughes, said in an interview with ScreenRant that he’d already started thinking of the next chapter for the franchise, so fans won’t have to wait too long for the sequel because of writer’s block. War Machine also stars Dennis Quaid (The Substance), Jai Courtney (Dutton Ranch), Esai Morales (Ozark), Keiynan Lonsdale (The Flash), and Jack Patten (Robin Hood), among others.
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