Gripping Western Tops Streaming Charts 5 Years After Launch

The 2020 western movie Excessive Floor has topped the streaming charts 5 years after its theatrical launch. Westerns have seen a resurgence in recent times on each the large and small screens, with Yellowstone and different Taylor Sheridan TV reveals driving a popular culture wave of recognition. On the large display screen, Excessive Floor, a historic western, was launched to rave evaluations and a number of Australian Academy of Cinema and Tv Arts Award (AACTA) nominations.

Excessive Floor could have initially been launched 5 years in the past, nevertheless it’s lastly drawing a wider viewers due to streaming companies. As of December 4, 2025, the movie is No. 1 on Paramount+’s international films chart.

Rounding out the High 10 are El arte de las ocho extremidades, Humane, Night time Hunter, The Final Stand of Ellen Cole, Jack Reacher, Right here After, Imply Ladies (2004), Mission: Inconceivable – The Closing Reckoning and World Struggle Z.

Excessive Floor is at the moment the highest film on Paramount+ in a number of international locations all over the world, together with Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, El Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela.

The film could also be a world hit on Paramount+’s chart, however Excessive Floor shouldn’t be truly out there to observe in the US on this explicit streaming service. As an alternative, U.S.-based movie buffs can watch the western drama on Prime Video, Tubi, The Roku Channel and Kanopy.

In the meantime, the highest TV reveals on Paramount+’s international chart for December 4 are South Park, Tulsa King, Yellowstone, Landman, Mayor of Kingstown, SpongeBob SquarePants, NCIS, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, The King of Queens and Legal Minds.

Excessive Floor, which takes place within the early Nineties in Australia, facilities on Travis, a former sniper who turns into a police officer. Years after he witnessed a horrifying tribal bloodbath, he meets a survivor of the slaughter, and the 2 got down to proper the wrongs of the previous. The forged contains Jacob Junior Nayinggul, Simon Baker, Callan Mulvey, Jack Thompson, Caren Pistorius, Ryan Corr, Aaron Pedersen, Sean Mununggurr, Witiyana Marika and Esmerelda Marimowa.

The Stephen Maxwell Johnson-directed film is taken into account a revisionist story. Different revisionist westerns embrace Dances with Wolves, Django Unchained and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

The film premiered at a number of movie festivals in Berlin, Brisbane and Adelaide all through 2020 earlier than a wider theatrical launch in early 2021.

Critics gave Excessive Floor overwhelming reward and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 90% (and an viewers rating of 77%), with evaluations calling the story “gripping” with a “sobering” message about colonialism.

Not solely was it a success with critics, however Excessive Floor additionally earned a number of AACTA nominations, together with Finest Movie, Finest Actor (Baker and Nayinggul), Finest Supporting Actor (Mununggurr and Thompson), Finest Supporting Actress (Esmerelda Marimowa), Finest Path, Finest Screenplay, Finest Cinematography and Finest Enhancing. The movie ended up profitable within the Finest Costume Design class.

After reaching a restricted viewers again in 2020 and 2021, Paramount+ has given the essential darling an opportunity to shine in a brand-new manner. Paramount and Madman Movies possible hope that present audiences discover Excessive Floor simply as charming as critics did 5 years in the past.