Gerard Butler’s Certified Fresh Low-Budget Survival Thriller He Says “Offers a Chance to Escape” Is an Instant Streaming Hit

Gerard Butler has delivered countless action thrillers over the years, like 300, Olympus Has Fallen, Den of Thieves, and more, but one of his more recent hits has become an instant streaming phenomenon. Butler stars alongside Luke Cage veteran Mike Colter in Plane, the 2023 action thriller that follows Brodie Torrance (Butler), a pilot who finds himself in a war zone with Louis Gaspare (Colter) after his plane goes down during a storm. Plane just arrived on Netflix this week, and the film has wasted no time finding success, currently sitting in the third spot on the streamer’s top movies chart with room to climb even more. Plane nearly tripled its modest $25 million budget with $74 million at the box office, and it even earned scores of 79% from critics and 94% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes — “certified fresh” and “verified hot.”