In Awkwafina’s new Prime Video comedy jackpotshe plays a young woman who wins a newly founded lottery in California, but her winnings come with a hair-raising catch: in order to keep the cash prize, the lottery winner must survive an onslaught of jackpot hunters who try to track down and kill the winner. And in doing so, these hunters get to keep the prize they steal. In other words, it’s a kind of The Hunger Games meets Publishers Clearing House.

That’s a pretty crazy premise for a movie, of course, and it’s only made more so by the fact that John Cena plays amateur lottery protection agent Noel Cassidy, whose job it is to protect Awkwafina’s Katie Kim until sundown in exchange for a share of the lottery winnings. Simu Liu is also there as Cassidy’s rival Louis Lewis, who is also after a share of Katie’s winnings. And that’s pretty much it. It’s lighthearted, action-packed fun.

Director: Paul Feig, jackpot is currently the No. 1 title on Prime Video, ahead of The boys“We thought from the beginning that this could be an international franchise,” Feig said in an interview with ComicBook, hinting that more could be in the works. “It would be interesting to see what other countries do with their own lottery.”

The script for jackpot was written by veteran video game writer and designer Rob Yescombe, who brought to the script the kind of action and physical comedy that Feig has often professed his love for. “For me, it makes comedy funnier when you really have a lot at stake for the characters,” Feig explains in production notes accompanying the film. “The best comedy is dangerous.”

“For a modern audience, and I count myself among them, you need momentum. You have to get involved with the characters and be interested in them. That was the case in this script from the beginning. I also knew I would be doing a lot of fun stunts. As a child, I dreamed of being a stuntman and now I’m living that dream.”

Of course, as is now common with major streaming films, the reviews for jackpot were…not nice. It currently has a pretty terrible critics’ score of 33% on Rotten Tomatoes and an almost equally bad audience score of 49%. Streaming has made it much easier for mediocre movies to find an audience these days.