Paul Feig Says Critics ‘Took the Biggest Dump’ on ‘Jackpot!’ and ‘Excoriated Us’: ‘I Think They Were Trying to Find Meaning’ in the Plot
variety.comMichaela Zee Paul Feig appeared on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s on Me” podcast and spoke about the poor reviews from critics for his action-comedy film “Jackpot!,” starring Awkwafina and John Cena. “Now I can be happy because we’ve been the No.
1 movie worldwide on Amazon for four weeks in a row now, which is fantastic,” director Feig said in the podcast episode, released on Tuesday. “But the critics excoriated us.
I mean, took the biggest dump on this movie. All I can figure is like, from the reviews I read, I think they were trying to find a lot of meaning in this premise.” “Jackpot!,” released on Prime Video in August, currently holds a 31% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Set in Los Angeles in 2030, the film follows Katie Kim (Awkwafina), who, after winning the lottery, finds herself the target of a deadly competition where people can kill her until sundown to legally claim the multi-billion dollar prize.
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