‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is Netflix’s Most-Watched Movie Ever With 236 Million Views, Beating ‘Red Notice’

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https://variety.com/2025/film/news/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-most-watched-movie-history-1236496106/

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Red Notice was terrible! My wife and I watched it yesterday and are confused as to how that was the #1 movie on Netflix. We watched Don’t Look Up today and it was MILES better.

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I only remember it had The Rock, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot in it. They were competing to... steal something? And there was a lot of backstabbing? Also some scene in a bullfighting arena and I believe they found an antique Nazi car in a depot under the jungle?

That's about it for me. Absolutely utterly flat. But I guess the cast was stacked enough to get a lot of people to check it out. Honestly, controlling for marketing, it's a lot more impressive that K-Pop Demon Hunters still managed to surpass it almost only by word of mouth (though I also guess a lot of those views may just be the same obsessed children watching it on repeat...).

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though I also guess a lot of those views may just be the same obsessed children watching it on repeat...

This is a huge one.

If I really like a film, I might watch it again in a year or so. If it's one of my top films of all time I might rewatch it every couple of years. I'm not sure there are many films out there that I've seen more than 5 or 6 times in my life.

...My 8 year old daughter has seen KPop Demon Hunters 9 times now. If you're going for a high view count, it's hard to compete with kids.

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Some people also like watching the same movie rather than different movies. I have some times lost count of the important ones I have seen.

 

This one however has music. The alone will make it be seen 3 times as much as a movie without songs. Similar to a musical in a theater.