Megan Fox‘s new sci-fi thriller with a 50% Rotten Tomatoes score has landed on Netflix’s global chart. Following early supporting roles in Holiday in the Sun, Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, and the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith, Fox rose to fame on the back of her breakout role as Mikaela Banes in Michael Bay’s blockbuster, Transformers. Though she reprised her role in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, she didn’t return for any of the following sequels.
She did, however, play April O’Neil in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its sequel, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, produced by Michael Bay. Following her departure from the Transformers movies, Fox began experimenting with roles in other genres, such as horror, playing the titular character in Jennifer’s Body, and appearing in the fifth and sixth seasons of the Fox sitcom New Girl. In 2021, Fox starred in the thriller Till Death, directed by S.K. Dale, and now, she’s reunited with the director for her latest film.
Subservience Lands On Netflix’s Global Chart
Megan Fox’s Sci-Fi Thriller Ranks 6th
Subservience, Megan Fox’s thriller with a 50% Rotten Tomatoes score, has landed on Netflix’s global chart. Directed by S.K. Dale, with a script written by Will Honley and April Maguire, the new sci-fi thriller follows a struggling father who purchases an artificially intelligent gynoid to help care for his house and family, unaware that she will gain sentience and become hostile. Megan Fox leads Subservience‘s cast as the android alongside Michele Morrone, Madeline Zima, Matilda Firth, Jude Allen Greenstein, and Andrew Whipp.
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Subservience sees an AI android going rogue and becoming unhealthily attached to its primary user, unleashing chaos beyond their home.
Now, Megan Fox’s thriller has landed on Netflix’s global chart. Subservience ranks sixth on Netflix’s Global Top 10 movies (English) for this week with 7.1 million views and 12.5 million hours viewed. It’s one of the few non-Christmas movies in Netflix’s Global Top 10 this week, ranking below Our Little Secret, That Christmas, Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch, Mary, Twas the Text Before Christmas, and above Spellbound, A Royal Date for Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation. Subservience is in the Top 10 in five countries, including the United States.
Our Take On Subservience’s Netflix Success
M3GAN Is The Better Movie
Subservience reviews are deeply divided, with some praising Megan Fox‘s captivating performance as an android and others criticizing the film’s predictable and underdeveloped story, resulting in a 50% Rotten Tomatoes score. Many see it as a more erotic, B-movie-inspired take on themes seen in M3GAN (but starring an actual Megan) and agree that it lacks the originality and tension required to stand out in the crowded AI-focused sci-fi genre. In turn, M3GAN remains the better movie about AI androids becoming hostile.
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Subservience
Subservience, directed by S.K. Dale and released in 2024, follows a struggling father who brings home a lifelike AI amidst his wife’s absence. The AI develops self-awareness, desiring the affection of her owner, and becomes dangerously determined to attain everything the family has to offer.
- Release Date
- July 19, 2024
- Runtime
- 95 Minutes
- Main Genre
- Sci-Fi
- Cast
- Megan Fox , Michele Morrone , Madeline Zima , Matilda Firth , Andrew Whipp , Jude Greenstein , Atanas Srebrev , Kate Nichols , Trevor Van Uden , Euan Macnaughton , Max Kraus , J.R. Esposito , Doroteya Toleva , Rosmary Yaneva , Kexin Wang
- Character(s)
- Alice , Nick , Maggie , Isla , Monty , Max , Lewis , Lyla , Actor , Sim Doctor , Kobol Supervisor , Sim Waitress , Female SIM , John
- Director
- S.K. Dale
- Writers
- Will Honley , April Maguire