Cage's Gunslingers: Netflix's Western Flop

0:00On April 6th, Netflix is dropping the Nicolas Cage action flick, Gunslingers, starting May 1st. This 2025 release stars Cage has been in a Western tale about an outlaw named Thomas hiding out in redemption, a town full of retired. Gunslingers living under fake names, things heat up when Thomas's brother rolls in hunting him down. Brian Schieber wrote and directed the movie, handling production through his Schieber vision outfit alongside a few others. The cast packs Stephen Dorf as Thomas, Heather Graham as Val, and Jeremy Ken Jackson as the brother Robert, with cost as Mandy lower playing the town, Guy Jericho. Critics and viewers trashed it hard, giving it just a 5% tomatometer score and 18% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Metacritic weighs in at 20 from pros and a brutal 4.4 from fans, so it bombed on arrival. Lionsgate pushed it straight to digital platforms on April 11th, and now has been streaming on Netflix for a bit. Subscribers got a short window to check it out.

1:02Catch it before a month's end if you're a Cage completist, since no word yet on where it'll stream next. Keep an eye out for that update. That's the story for today. Entertainment and celebrity news today, driven by AI. I'm Corey with The Story.