After kickstarting 2025 withA Working Man,Jason Stathamis riding a wave of momentum — but not just from his newest blockbuster.Homefront, the 2013 action-thriller penned bySylvester Stallone, is suddenly one of the most-watched movies on Prime Video. As of mid-June, it’s sitting at#9 on the U.S. Top 10, one spotahead of Tom Cruise’sMission: Impossible – DeadReckoning, which holds at #10. Not bad for a film with a42% Rotten Tomatoescritic score.
So what’s fuelingthe resurgence ofHomefront? Call it the Statham effect. When he’s not blowing up international box office charts with recent hits likeA Working Man— which grossed nearly$100 million worldwide— fans are diving back into his catalogue for more of that no-nonsense, knuckle-breaking catharsis. AndHomefrontdelivers exactly that.
Directed byGary Fleder, the film stars Statham asPhil Broker, a former DEA agent hoping for a quiet life in small-town Louisiana with his daughter. But peace is short-lived when he runs afoul of a local meth kingpin namedGator Bodine, played with swampy menace byJames Franco. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game with enough bar fights, car chases, and southern sleaze to satisfy any action fan.
Meanwhile,Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoningis enjoying its own second life, but it’s been bumped to #10 on Prime Video’s rankings, just behindHomefront. This is a rare role reversal. Cruise’s action franchise typically dominates the conversation, but Statham’s old-school beatdown is currently the more in-demand title. That’s not a knock onDead Reckoning, which scored a96% Rotten Tomatoes ratingand pulled in$567 million worldwide. But betweenBarbenheimerbox office sabotage and ballooning production costs(hello, $291 million COVID budget), the film needed a much bigger theatrical haul to break even.
Was ‘Homefront’ Any Good?
Critics didn’t exactly embrace it — that 42% score on Rotten Tomatoes speaks for itself — butaudiences were warmer, giving it a61% Popcornmeter rating. That’s more in line with what you’d expect for a gritty B-movie that never pretended to be prestige cinema.
The ensemble cast also includesWinona Ryderas Gator’s volatile sister,Kate Bosworth, andClancy Brown, giving the film some dramatic heft beyond the punches and bullets. And for a modest$22 million budget, the movie did just fine. It pulled in$51.6 million globallyat the box office and added another$14.8 millionin home entertainment sales, pushing the total haul north of$66 million. It remains the 12th highest-grossing title in Open Road Films' catalogue.
HomefrontandDead Reckoningstream on Prime Video.
