Netflix has another international action breakout, and the numbers seem stronger than a small chart come-up. In the official Netflix Global Top 10 for May 4-May 10, 2026, the film ranked No. 1 among Non-English movies, pulling 18.3 million hours viewed and 8.5 million views in its first charting week. That matters even more because the movie was released on May 7, meaning it built that total inside a shortened opening window rather than a full seven-day runway.
As per FlixPatrol, Taweewat Wantha’s film held No. 1 in Thailand across the tracked week, but the performance did not stay local. It reached No. 1 in South Korea, Morocco, Turkey, Kenya, Jamaica, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and the Bahamas at different points, while also staying high in Brazil, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Peru, the Philippines, France, Mexico, Argentina, and the United States. The useful read is that this is not traveling as a niche Thai release but a romance-action hybrid with a clean survival hook.
The movie is My Dearest Assassin, starring Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul, Thanapob Leeratanakachorn, and Sivakorn Adulsuttikul. Netflix’s premise follows Lhan (Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul), a young woman hunted for her rare blood type, raised by the assassin organization House 89, and forced to fight beside the man she loves when an old enemy returns. That combination explains the chart surge on Netflix across 84 countries: My Dearest Assassin has the emotional clarity of a revenge romance and the easy-click urgency of a hunted-assassin thriller.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In an interview with Thairath Online, Pimchanok “Baifern” Luevisadpaibul, who plays Lhan, framed the film’s emotional core around found family rather than just survival or romance. Speaking about Lhan’s bond with House 89, Baifern said the film shows that family is “not a family by blood” and that people can choose the ones they love, care for, and protect. This explains why the movie’s action is built around sacrifice. Lhan is hunted for her rare blood, but the story’s real pressure comes from whether the assassin family that raised her can become something deeper than protection, duty, or training.
*My Dearest Assassin *is currently trending on Netflix globally. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.