{"id":487107,"date":"2026-06-20T14:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487107\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T14:04:09","slug":"amazons-statham-meets-bourne-action-thriller-officially-one-of-the-most-watched-streaming-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/487107\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon’s “Statham Meets Bourne” Action Thriller Officially One of the Most-Watched Streaming Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pair of Jasons, both of whom are known for their action<\/a> thriller prowess, collide in a massive new streaming hit for Prime Video<\/a>. The two Jasons in question are Bourne<\/a> and Statham, with the original Amzazon action effort introducing a former assassin called back into action to uncover a major conspiracy involving an elite team of spies. <\/p>\n

Likened to a Jason Bourne-esque adventure, but with a hefty dose of no-nonsense Jason Statham<\/a>-esque explosiveness, the action thriller was released with little fanfare back in March but has since shot up the streaming charts and garnered a huge audience along the way. So huge that it has emerged as one of the biggest hits of the hour on Prime Video. <\/p>\n

Spies Are Being Assassinated, and It\u2019s up to the Best Spy to Figure Out Why<\/p>\n

Directed by Dani de la Torre, Agent Zeta<\/a> stars Mario Casas (Bird Box: Barcelona) as the titular resurrected special agent, and picks up after four Spanish ex-intelligence officers are assassinated simultaneously worldwide. The Centro Nacional de Inteligencia, aka the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) discovers all of them participated in the covert “Operation Ci\u00e9naga” decades ago in Colombia. Zeta, the CNI’s best operative, is tasked with hunting down and protecting the sole survivor, facing his deadliest global mission yet. <\/p>\n

Starring Luis Zahera (Cell 211), Mariela Garriga (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning), and Christian Tappan (Primate), alongside Casas, Agent Zeta is now ranked the ninth most-watched original film from Amazon Studios<\/a> on Prime Video (non-English) alongside the likes of fellow action thriller Vengeance<\/a>, the Culpa franchise, with the legal drama System at #1. <\/p>\n

TOP 10 ORIGINAL FILMS ON PRIME VIDEO (NON-ENGLISH)<\/p>\n

TITLE<\/p>\n

COUNTRY OF ORIGIN<\/p>\n

System<\/p>\n

India<\/p>\n

Culpa Mia<\/p>\n

Spain<\/p>\n

A Family of Bastards \/ Une Famille de B\u00e2tards<\/p>\n

France<\/p>\n

Culpa Nuestra<\/p>\n

Spain<\/p>\n

No Place to Be Single \/ Non \u00e8 un Paese per Single<\/p>\n

Italy<\/p>\n

Culpa Tuya<\/p>\n

Spain<\/p>\n

Still Sexy \/ Ancora pi\u00f9 Sexy<\/p>\n

Italy<\/p>\n

Vengeance \/ Venganza<\/p>\n

Mexico<\/p>\n

Agent Zeta<\/p>\n

Spain<\/p>\n

Tell Me Softly \/ D\u00edmelo Bajito<\/p>\n

Spain<\/p>\n

‘Agent Zeta’ Is Like ‘Jack Ryan,’ ‘The Terminal List’ & James Bond Combined<\/p>\n

While Agent Zeta is now an official success for Prime Video, the action thriller has struggled a little with critics. Likened to the streamer\u2019s other action hits such as Jack Ryan, Citadel, and The Terminal List<\/a>, Agent Zeta has been praised for all the shootouts and explosions on display, but viewers long for something more elevated. \u201cThere are solidly executed action sequences, and a clear ambition to launch a Latin-flavored spy franchise,\u201d said one reaction, with another adding, \u201cPrime Video seems to be testing whether Casas can become an Ibero-American Bond<\/a> or Jack Ryan\u2014and whether this could be the start of something bigger.\u201d <\/p>\n

Finally, Agent Zeta was compared to the two action hero Jasons, with another reaction saying, \u201cDe la Torre’s film seems to aim for something like the Bourne saga, yet barely reaches the level of a Jason Statham production<\/a>.\u201d Which, frankly, makes it an absolute must-see. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of Jasons, both of whom are known for their action thriller prowess, collide in a massive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-487107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}