Brendan Fraser's 115-Minute Crime Thriller Is Officially One Of HBO Max's Biggest Movies

Published Aug 20, 2026, 1:46 PM EDT Felipe Rangel is a Movie and TV Journalist ScreenRant. He has been writing about movies and TV since 2021. Felipe joined ScreenRant in 2022, working across different teams, covering everything from breaking news to features to reviews and more. Felipe is a writer who is an avid film and TV fan, with superhero movies and series being his biggest passion. He graduated from college in 2019, having studied Journalism. Before college, he spent a month studying at the Oxford English Centre. His superhero knowledge expands to the comics, with his undergraduate thesis being "Politics Reflected In American Comics." Brendan Fraser's star-studded crime thriller steals a major spot on HBO Max's charts. Fraser is one of the most charismatic actors in Hollywood. Over the years, he has also proven to be an incredibly versatile actor. Those who watch Fraser's movies and TV shows will find completely different performances in projects like his action adventure The Mummy franchise — Fraser is set to return for The Mummy 4 alongside Rachel Weisz in 2027 — his Oscar-winning vehicle The Whale, and more. Recently, Fraser has made his mark in a series of intense projects, including multiple crime thrillers, a war movie, and so on. Now, one of those gritty projects has become a streaming hit. Brendan Fraser's Crime Thriller Is Shooting Its Way Up On HBO Max At the time of writing, No Sudden Move is the 7th most-watched movie on HBO Max in the United States. The crime thriller sees Fraser give life to Doug Jones, a gangster, in this gritty 1950s story set in Detroit. No Sudden Move was directed by Steven Soderbergh, who assembled a cast filled with major stars for the ambitious project. Besides Fraser, the 2021 crime thriller that is now trending on HBO Max nationwide also features names like Benicio del Toro, Don Cheadle, David Harbour, Jon Hamm, Kieran Culkin, Amy Seimetz, Ray Liotta, Matt Damon, and more. No Sudden Move follows three minor criminals who stumble upon a large conspiracy that implicates the city's mob bosses and more after a job gone wrong. Fraser's R-rated crime thriller finds great company on HBO Max's nationwide movies chart. Other projects currently trending on the streaming service in the US include the Robert Pattinson and Zendaya dark romance The Drama, the action fantasy video game adaption Mortal Kombat II, the Taylor Sheridan & Denis Villeneuve action thriller Sicario, Ryan Reynolds' superhero space opera Green Lantern, and more. HBO Max's most-watched movie in the United States is Normal, Bob Odenkirk's recent action movie. Why Brendan Fraser's No Sudden Move Is So Divisive Claudette Barius / HBO Max / Courtesy Everett Collection While Fraser's No Sudden Move has become a major streaming sensation on HBO Max, viewers were not too kind to the film back when it was released on the streaming service on July 1, 2021. On Rotten Tomatoes, No Sudden Move currently stands at a measly 59% audience score, which suggests a very different performance from the run the movie is having now as HBO Max's 7th most-watch film in the US. It is intriguing that the R-rated crime thriller has managed to trend on the same streaming service it was released in five years later despite its negative audience score. Likely helping its HBO Max performance is the fact that Fraser's No Sudden Move stands at a near-perfect 92% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes based on 141 reviews. The crime thriller received the Certified Fresh badge from the platform. No Sudden Move has become such a divisive movie among critics and viewers because of factors like the fisheye lens effect used for the film not sitting well with viewers, a slow-paced narrative without the usual crime thriller high-octane action sequences, the major shift in narrative as the conspiracy comes into figure, and more. Still, No Sudden Move is now an HBO Max hit.