Paul Feig Says Critics Took ‘the Biggest Dump’ on ‘Jackpot!’

Paul Feig wants critics to know that it’s OK for an action comedy to just...

be an action comedy. The director said during Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s on Me” podcast that his latest film “ Jackpot !” was “excoriated” by reviewers. The feature starred Awkwafina as an unassuming jackpot lottery winner who must survive until sunset to cash in on her winnings while the whole world is trying to murder her and take her prize.

John Cena and Simu Liu co-starred. “Now I can be happy because we’ve been the number one movie worldwide on Amazon for four weeks in a row now, which is fantastic,” Feig said. “But the critics excoriated us.

I mean, took the biggest dump on this movie. All I can figure is like, from the reviews I read, I think they were trying to find a lot of meaning in this premise.” He continued, “I’m like, guys, the only reason I did this premise is because it’s a Jackie Chan movie.

Like, just a launchpad for a very funny person to be completely in danger and not know what’s going on, and then there’s a sweetness and you find out their backstories. But don’t get mad at me because I didn’t do some polemic on the state of America today. I don’t want to do that.

I’m a comedy guy. [..

.] I’m very proud of it.” Also during the podcast episode, Feig spoke about how “huge” imposter syndrome is in Hollywood.

“You never are comfortably successful,” the “Ghostbusters” filmmaker said. “You achieve moments of success. .