Guy Ritchie's The Covenant Becomes Streaming Hit Despite Box Office Flop

Guy Ritchie, director of Snatch, Wrath of Man and the Sherlock Holmes films, is finding renewed attention on streaming with The Covenant. The 2023 action war epic, also billed as Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant, has been moving in and out of Hulu’s most-popular list on FlixPatrol.

It underperformed at the box office, grossing nearly $22 million against a $55 million budget, and moved to digital less than three weeks after release. Three years after its theatrical run the film is drawing strong audience praise on Rotten Tomatoes, with a 98% audience score and an 82% critics’ score—the highest critics’ ranking among Ritchie’s projects on that site.

Despite its modest box office, The Covenant has become one of the director’s most highly rated films. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Special Forces Sgt. John Kinley, who must work with an interpreter, Ahmed (Dar Salim), who previously had ties to the Taliban before defecting after the death of his son.

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