Paramount+'s 121-Minute Survival Thriller Is Quietly Climbing Global Streaming Charts

Some of the most celebrated, pulse-racing survival thrillers ever have debuted in the 21st century. From Alfonso Cuarón‘s nail-biting outer-space disaster Gravity and Leonardo DiCaprio’s long-overdue Best Actor Oscar win in The Revenant, to Netflix’s multinational drama Society of the Snow and Danny Boyle‘s terrifying 127 Hours, the nerves of viewers have truly been tested this century. However, due to these big-name survival thrillers dominating the genre’s discourse, some others have fallen under the radar.

One such movie to have faded from most minds is Not Without Hope, the survivor thriller based on the harrowing true tale of four men who become stranded in the Gulf of Mexico in 2009, which sadly took the lives of NFL football players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith. Directed by Joe Carnahan, the film was released in 2025 to very little theatrical fanfare, following its premiere at the Austin Film Festival. Receiving a limited capacity run in theaters, Not Without Hope only returned $231,000 against a budget of $18 million.

Nevertheless, the film has since bounced back, as people flock to streaming to catch the tense and terrifying ordeal of Nick (Zachary Levi), Marquis (Quentin Plair), Corey (Terrence Terrell), and Will (Marshall Cook). At the time of writing, Not Without Hope is one of the ten most-streamed movies on Paramount+ in the U.S. Other films currently proving popular on the streamer include The Running ManEdgar Wright‘s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel of the same name — 2026 horror movie Primate, the cinema-saving blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick, Colleen Hoover’s second adaptation Regretting You, and more.































































Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz
Which Action Hero Would Be
Your Perfect Partner?

Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt

Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.

🎖️Rambo

🍸James Bond

🏺Indiana Jones

🔧John McClane

🎭Ethan Hunt

01

You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner?
The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.





02

You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel?
How you get there is half the mission.





03

You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do?
This is when you find out what someone is really made of.





04

The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest?
Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.





05

How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission?
Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.





06

Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them?
The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.





07

Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do?
Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.





08

What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace?
A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.





09

Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with?
No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.





10

It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now?
The last question is the most honest one.





Your Partner Has Been Assigned
Your Perfect Partner Is…

Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.

Rambo

Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

James Bond

Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

Indiana Jones

Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

John McClane

Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

Ethan Hunt

Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

What Did Collider Say About ‘Not Without Hope’?

Earning a majority of positive submissions on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes with a 77% critics’ score, Not Without Hope was a quiet hit in 2025. But what did Collider think? In Luna Guthrie‘s review, she was less impressed by the survival thriller, saying, “Not Without Hope doesn’t get it all right, and there are a few stylistic missteps, as well as tonal ones, particularly as the action zeroes in on Nick as the sole survivor and seems to lose consideration for the other men’s families.” She continued, “It also feels like it gets a little repetitive towards the end, with rescue missions getting thwarted time and time again.”

Not Without Hope is a streaming hit on Paramount+. Make sure to stay tuned to Collider for all the latest streaming stories.


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Release Date

December 4, 2025

Runtime

119 Minutes

Director

Joe Carnahan


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