Summary
- Netflix’s
The Union
has earned 49% on Rotten Tomatoes. - This continues negative Rotten Tomatoes streaks for stars Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry.
- Both stars have upcoming projects that could potentially break their streaks.
The Union continues a negative Rotten Tomatoes streak for stars Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry. The duo stars in the Netflix action-comedy from Entourage director Julian Farino as a construction worker and his former high school flame, who now works in the high-stakes world of espionage and drags him into a dangerous adventure. The Union cast also includes Mike Colter, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Alice Lee, Lorraine Bracco, Jackie Earle Haley, and J. K. Simmons.
Rotten Tomatoes has now aggregated an official score for The Union out of 39 different critics’ reviews. Although the number could fluctuate as more reviews are added, at the time of writing, it has a firmly Rotten 49% score, which is 11% below the 60% threshold past which a movie can be considered Fresh. This continues a streak of Rotten movies for both lead actors, as Berry has only starred in two Fresh narrative movies in the past 10 years and Wahlberg has only starred in five.
Can Mark Wahlberg And Halle Berry Reverse Their Rotten Tomatoes Streaks?
Both Have Projects Coming After The Union That Can Help
While the Union ending left the door open for a possible sequel, it seems that such a follow-up would not help either star with their ongoing grim Rotten Tomatoes streaks. While Wahlberg has made considerably more movies than Berry since 2014 (with 22 compared to her eight), the fact that he has only earned three more Fresh scores than she has shows how pernicious both stars’ critical streaks are at the time of writing. Below, see a breakdown of their runs of narrative movies in the past 10 years, with all Fresh scores presented in bold:
|
Halle Berry Movies |
RT Score |
Mark Wahlberg Movies |
RT Score |
|---|---|---|---|
|
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) |
90% |
The Gambler (2014) |
43% |
|
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014 |
18% |
||
|
Daddy’s Home (2015) |
30% |
||
|
Mojave (2015) |
32% |
||
|
Ted 2 (2015) |
44% |
||
|
Deepwater Horizon (2016) |
82% |
||
|
Patriots Day (2016) |
80% |
||
|
Kidnap (2017) |
35% |
All the Money in the World (2017) |
79% |
|
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) |
50% |
Daddy’s Home 2 (2017) |
21% |
|
Kings (2017) |
13% |
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017) |
16% |
|
Instant Family (2018) |
82% |
||
|
Mile 22 (2018) |
23% |
||
|
John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum (2019) |
89% |
||
|
Bruised (2020) |
50% |
Joe Bell (2020) |
40% |
|
SCOOB! (2020) |
40% |
||
|
Spenser Confidential (2020) |
36% |
||
|
Infinite (2021) |
17% |
||
|
Moonfall (2022) |
35% |
Father Stu (2022) |
43% |
|
Me Time (2022) |
7% |
||
|
Uncharted (2022) |
40% |
||
|
The Family Plan (2023) |
25% |
||
|
Arthur the King (2024) |
70% |
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|
The Union (2024) |
49% |
The Union (2024) |
49% |
However, it seems that both stars have at least one project that could help put their Rotten Tomatoes records back on track after The Union. While there are several upcoming Mark Wahlberg movies that are questionable as to whether they will strike a chord with critics including the Mel Gibson-helmed Flight Risk and the action-comedy Balls Up, one movie that may be the perfect opportunity for him to earn a Fresh score isthe Donald E. Westlake adaptation Play Dirty. The movie was helmed by Shane Black, who has only ever earned one Rotten score as a director.
As for Berry, her first post-The Union movie is the Alexandre Aja horror title Never Let Go, which comes during a time when the French-Algerian director has had a run of Fresh hits beginning with Crawl in 2019 that could very well continue with this new project. It remains to be seen how her titles that come next – which include The Process and Maude v Maude – perform, but the genre project, which is due later in 2024, could help kickstart a new phase of her career.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes
The Union (2024)
The Union is an upcoming film that explores the intersecting lives of multiple characters as they navigate complex relationships, personal struggles, and social issues.
- Director
- Julian Farino
- Release Date
- August 16, 2024
- Studio(s)
- Leverage Entertainment , Municipal Pictures , Closest to the Hole Productions
- Writers
- David Guggenheim , Joe Barton
- Runtime
- 109 Minutes