Netflix is ​​known for many things, but real crime (like that Disturbing documentary about kidfluencers) and barely service thrillers (I see in you and your Die a hard action movie, Dylan Sprius) are certainly two of the most important. Now, Strimmer has combined the two in the Netflix's end piece of "content" and you wouldn't know that, the result is a world-class mega-hit.

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"Ihostage" is a new thriller from Strimmer, based on the real -life hostage event, held in Amsterdam as early as 2022. On February 22 of the same year, a 27-year-old striker entered the Apple store in Lidseplin, Amsterdam and kept customers hostage for nearly five hours, demanding 200m euros in cryptocentor to end the trunk. The hostage, who later identified the Dutch newspaper Jet Parul as Abdel Rahman Acad, focused mainly on a captive, a 44-year-old Bulgarian man, while others were hiding in the store and people on the upper floor of the building remained captured. During the crisis, police evacuated about 70 people before removing Acad in a way that proved to be controversial in the Netherlands.

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It was a really daunting moment, made them even more surreal with the fact that the gunman took selfies during the stalemate and sent them to the local press. Moreover, the videos of the consequences were made by social media, adding an unwanted voyeurist aspect of an already terrible situation. Now, Netflix has turned all the work into a movie, which obviously attracts even more attention from the original event itself if the streamer's graphs are all they have to go.

"Ihostage" is directed by Bobby Boermans, who previously monitored the Netflix thriller series "The Golden Hour", which also happened to be a terrorist attack in Amsterdam. His new film, however, is very much based on real events, though "Ichostas" changes all the names of the characters and inserts original dialogue in its retelling of the events of February 22, 2022. Boermans also chose to focus on five main characters, and incorporated CCTV footage and camera bodywork to try to maintain a sense of realism. It all seems to have earned him and his movie place on the top 10 of Netflix. In fact, he moved the film to the top of the graphs not only in the United States or in his native Netherlands, but in the world.

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Ihostage debuted on Netflix April 18, 2025 and according to FlixpatrolA page that follows streaming data through different platforms has become a global hit. Since April 21, 2025, the film has been shown in 92 countries and is number one in 80 of them, including in the United States where the film debuted on the number two on April 19, before taking first place the next day. Elsewhere, Ihostage is the number one of Streamer's arrival and has actually remained in the first place in 30 countries since its debut.

Then, surprisingly, all this did "Ihostage" the number one movie in the world of the Netflix global graphs. The film is currently number two in nine other countries, suggesting that it can take first place in those markets over the week.

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During writing, "ihostage" does not have enough views on Rotten tomatoes to earn a result of a tomatometer. Of the three views available on the site, two are negative and one is positive. Social media reactions are not so dazzling, nor suggesting that the Netflix thriller does not live up to its triumphant performance on the graph.

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However, director Bobby Boermans seems to have done his best to catch the event in real life in a way that talks about the real world issues that made Abdel Rahman Acad do what he did, at the same time trying to make a decent thriller. The Dutch director spoke Time Ihostage, revealing that he had talked to Apple's employees and clients, police negotiators and others during his research and that he wanted his film to talk to "our capacity to support each other, even in the most challenging times".

Whether he has succeeded or not, it is up to you to decide, but you will not deny the success of the Netflix movie. To stay at the number one on the global graph, Ihostage will have to continue to worry Sofia's romantic comedy, Carson's "Life List" that recently dominated Netflix and stays at number two globally. Meanwhile, Mel Gibson's controversial Bible drama "The passion of Christ" It climbs the path of global graphs, so "Ichostas" will soon have it.

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