On March 7, 2025, Hollywood was once again greeted with another eye-watering expensive flop. And this time, it’s The Electric State—a $320M Netflix sci-fi epic starring Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown. But calling it “epic” feels generous especially when critics obliterated it with a brutal 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.
It feels like, had The Electric State hit the theaters, it would have joined the hall of legendary flops. Perhaps it would have made Johnny Depp’s 2013 disaster The Lone Ranger look good after the movie floundered at the box office. So now, instead of a theatrical debut, as Chris Pratt’s movie joined Netflix, it seems the steamer bought a whole lot of regret for $320M.
Millie Bobby Brown’s The Electric State became the Russo Brothers’ lowest-rated film
Following the release of Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown’s latest movie, the Russo Brothers went from snapping half the universe in Avengers: Endgame, to snapping their own reputation in half, with The Electric State. The sci-fi epic that was supposed to be a massive hit on Netflix surprisingly made a debut with 20% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Turns out, Millie Bobby Brown, and Chris Pratt’s 2025 movie is now the lowest-rated project in the Russo Brothers’ entire career. That’s lower than Tom Holland’s eyebrow-raising attempt at gritty drama, Cherry (37% RT rating), and the 2022 thriller The Gray Man, which at least had Ryan Gosling looking cool (45% RT score).
Coming to the production cost, you might think a $320M budget would guarantee at least a decent movie. But sadly, even with Chris Pratt’s fame as MCU’s Star-Lord and Millie Bobby Brown’s star power as Stranger Things’ Eleven, the duo couldn’t salvage The Electric State from being yet another regret-fueled project under Netflix.
Chris Pratt’s $320M flop would put Johnny Depp’s 2013 disaster to shame
Now, while comparing The Electric State with the Russo Brothers’ previous films already gave us chills—comparing the movie with a few other industry disasters will certainly leave us with heartache. Take, for example, Johnny Depp’s The Lone Ranger—the movie that cost Disney $225 million and only managed to make $260M at the box office (via The Numbers).
While Johnny Depp‘s 2013 movie raised eyebrows, it seems like The Electric State just looked at it and said, “Hold my CGI budget”. Thankfully Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown’s 2025 movie was released on Netflix, otherwise, had it been a theatrical release, it might have made The Lone Ranger look like Titanic in comparison. After all, Depp’s movie earned at least a 31% score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Meanwhile, fans on social media are thoroughly disappointed in Chris Pratt and Millie Bobby Brown’s The Electric State. With a $320M price tag, people at least expected some Infinity War-level visuals and storyline. Instead, as moviegoers were left with dissatisfaction, they seemed grateful for Netflix offering a home to The Electric State, because let’s be real, nobody would have paid money to see this in theaters.
The Electric State is streaming on Netflix.
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