In Just 1 Day, Kevin Hart's New 105-Minute Netflix Movie Is Officially the Most-Watched Title in the World

Kevin Hart has built one of the most durable comedy careers in Hollywood on a simple but reliable formula: put him in over his head, surround him with people who make his panic funnier, and let the chaos run. 72 Hours, his new Netflix comedy directed by Tim Story, is that formula applied to a Miami bachelor party gone spectacularly wrong, and it has worked yet again.

In a single day since its release on Netflix on 24 July, 72 Hours has become the most-watched movie in the world, per FlixPatrol. It is trending at No.1 in the United States and 66 other regions, and charting in the Top 10 Most Watched Movies in 92 countries.

For a film that arrived with mixed critical reviews, the audience response has been emphatic. Numbers like these, achieved in a single day, place 72 Hours among the fastest-performing Netflix comedies in recent memory, and confirm that Hart's global pull as a comedy draw remains unmatched.

The movie follows Joe, a 40-year-old advertising executive hoping to save his career, who is accidentally added to a group chat for a wild Miami bachelor party thrown by a group of twenty-somethings he has never met. Rather than correcting the error, Joe decides to join them, giving rise to an escalating and increasingly unhinged series of misadventures that the genre demands.

Hart plays Joe opposite a cast that mixes current Saturday Night Live stars with established comedy veterans, with the likes of Marcello Hernández, Mason Gooding, Kam Patterson, Ben Marshall, Zach Cherry, Michael Mando, Mike Epps, Teyana Taylor, Andy Garcia, and Kevin Dunn.

Joe finds himself mistaken at various points for a human trafficker, a cop, and a Cuban drug lord, while also surviving a brawl in a moving limousine and a jellyfish sting that swells his face to monstrous proportions. Critics were divided, with some reviewers noting that the younger SNL cast members were hilarious and the concept of the old guard hanging out with the new-gen was strong. Either way, the audiences have shown up, and the charts are proof.

That is, despite the film's abysmal reviews. 72 Hours features an abysmal 14% score from critics out of 22 reviews, and only 48% from the audience.

72 Hours marks the latest collaboration between Hart and Story, a pairing that has become one of the most commercially reliable in Netflix comedy. Story previously directed Hart in the Ride Along films , establishing a shorthand between director and star that translates clearly to the screen; a shared understanding of pacing, physical comedy, and the kind of controlled mayhem that Hart does better than almost anyone in the industry today.

The generational gap premise gives the 2026 comedy movie a great hook that distinguishes it from a regular bachelor party romp, and Hart makes his Joe out of his depth geographically, morally, and culturally, as a forty-year-old navigating a world built on social codes he does not recognize. This is what makes 72 Hours some of his best work and the most-watched across nearly the entire world.