John Cena‘s overlooked R-rated action-comedy with Alison Brie is leaving Netflix very soon. The movie came out in 2023 and also stars Christian Slater.
John Cena-led Freelance is leaving Netflix next month
Freelance will disappear from Netflix on August 3, 2026. It is the only title leaving the platform that day (via What’s on Netflix).
Pierre Morel, who previously helmed District 13, From Paris with Love, and Taken, directed Freelance from a script by Jacob Lentz. The plot revolves around Cena’s Mason Pettits, a former US Army Special Forces soldier turned lawyer.
When an old teammate, Sebastian Earle (Slater), approaches Mason with a lucrative offer to protect disgraced journalist Claire Wellington (Brie), he sees it as an opportunity to escape the limbo of his current life and accepts.
However, it takes Mason back to the fictional nation of Paldonia, where, years earlier, Mason sustained a major injury while trying to assassinate the country’s leader.
The cast of Freelance also includes Juan Pablo Raba as President Juan Venegas, Alice Eve as Jenny Pettits, Marton Csokas as Colonel Jan Koehorst, and Sebastián Eslava as Jorge Vásquez.
Following its Release, Freelance failed at the box office. The movie made a little over $10 million globally (via Box Office Mojo). It performed almost as badly with the critics and currently has a 10% approval rating on the review-aggregating site Rotten Tomatoes. One of the very few positive reviews that the movie received came from Leslie Felperin of The Guardian.
“This haphazard comedy-action film mostly plays like the script was written on the discarded roach of a smoked joint, but the likability of the cast makes up for a lot,” Felperin wrote.
The critic later added, “The package as a whole, with its sun-bleached palette and colour correction that makes its blues pop, is reasonably entertaining, perfectly suited to watching on an airplane while flying to your next holiday destination.”
Originally reported by Tamal Kundu on ComingSoon.
