Netflix's 51% Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Action Epic Officially Crowned the All-Time King of Streaming

Netflix may well be the one-stop shop for action movies with enormous budgets that star some of Hollywood's biggest stars, but its most successful international movie doesn't have Chris Hemsworth, Ryan Reynolds, or Gal Gadot running around, quipping and bashing people's heads in. To the surprise of many, actually, it's got a gigantic Norwegian troll stomping toward Oslo instead.

Four years after its original release, Troll remains officially crowned Netflix's most popular non-English-language movie of all time. The Norwegian monster epic has amassed 103 million views during its first 91 days, totaling an enormous 178.6 million hours watched. That narrowly puts it ahead of Under Paris, which currently sits second with 102.3 million views.

Deep inside the mountain of Dovre, something gigantic awakens after being trapped for a thousand years. Destroying everything in its path, the creature is fast approaching the capital of Norway. But how do you stop something you thought only existed in Norwegian folklore? The authorities recruit paleontologist Nora Tidemann to figure out how to stop it, but what chance does she possibly have?

The cast is led by Ine Marie Wilmann (War Sailor) as Nora Tidemann, alongside Kim Falck (Cold Prey 3) as Andreas Isaksen, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen (The 12th Man) as Captain Kristoffer Holm, Gard B. Eidsvold (Beforeigners) as Tobias Tidemann, Anneke von der Lippe (Eyewitness) as Prime Minister Berit Moberg, Dennis Storhøi (The 13th Warrior) as Chief of Defence General Sverre Lunde, and Fridtjov Såheim (Lilyhammer) as Minister of Defence Frederick Markussen. The film is directed by Roar Uthaug (Tomb Raider).

How Good Is 'Troll'?

Here's where critics and audiences disagree pretty dramatically. Troll currently holds an excellent 90% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes, but viewers have been considerably less enthusiastic, handing the movie a 51% Popcornmeter score. Critics largely embraced its uncomplicated monster-movie pleasures, with the site's consensus arguing that the movie doesn't reinvent the genre but has enough mythology and action that it doesn't particularly need to.

Its success was enough to turn the monster into a franchise. Troll 2 arrived in 2025, reuniting Uthaug with Wilmann, Falck and Pettersen for another enormous creature awakening beneath Norway. The sequel couldn't match the first movie's reception, currently sitting at 61% from critics and 34% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes.

Troll is streaming now exclusively on Netflix.