{"id":624793,"date":"2025-12-10T19:43:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624793\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:43:47","slug":"jason-bateman-reveals-surprising-reaction-to-harsh-ozark-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/624793\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Bateman Reveals Surprising Reaction To Harsh Ozark Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000867\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Bateman<\/a> has revealed his surprising reaction to a harsh review of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5071412\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ozark<\/a> eight years later, explaining what he thought of the negative critique. Reviews for Ozarkfrom critics throughout its run on <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0144901\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Netflix<\/a> have been almost universally positive. The crime drama has received praise for its dark, twisted story and morally ambiguous characters, like <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm8727486\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bateman<\/a>&#8216;s Marty Byrde.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10345616\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Esquire<\/a>, however, Bateman reflected on a negative review of <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5071412\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ozark<\/a> from The New York Times writer <a class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1972533\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Hale<\/a>, who lambasted his acting as &#8220;boring to watch.&#8221; The actor remembers laughing about the review, amused because of a creative description Hale used to emphasize just how bland he found Bateman&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jason Bateman has revealed his surprising reaction to a harsh review of Ozark eight years later, explaining what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[176668,176669,176666,176667,4080,77,26670,498,176670,5636,11727,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-624793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-acteurs","9":"tag-actrices","10":"tag-actualites","11":"tag-celebrites","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-films","15":"tag-hollywood","16":"tag-realisateurs","17":"tag-stars","18":"tag-television","19":"tag-tv","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}