A One Mann’s Movies review of “Mutiny”. (2026, 3*, 15).
This will be a short review, since you only have to look at the poster for this one and you 100% know what you will be getting!
One Mann’s Movies Rating:
Plot:
Cole Reed (Jason Statham) is a personal protection officer for a rich shipping tycoon Tibu Campallo (Ramon Tikaram), who he also now counts as a close friend. When Tibu is murdered in front of him, Cole goes on a one-man mission of vengeance that takes him onto the high seas.
Certification:
UK: 15; US: R. (From the BBFC website: “Strong violence, injury detail, language.”)
Talent:
Starring: Jason Statham, Chaneil Kular, Ramon Tikaram, Simon Kluth, Annabelle Wallis, Roland Møller.
Directed by: Jean-François Richet.
Written by: Lindsay Michel & J.P. Davis.
Running Time: 1h 35m.
Review:
Positives:
- Like all of Statham’s cookie-cutter action films, they are entertaining in a park-your-brain-at-the-door sort of way. This is no different. There are the requisite roll-your eyes sort of lines:
- when quizzed by Tibu about his police/marine past life he growls “I miss the action, not the politics”;
- when the captain of the Artemis (Roland Møller) discovers Cole is the spanner in his works he growls (nobody does any dialogue in this film without growling it) “A cop fugitive – just what this shit show is missing”.
- The film also has eye-rolling action elements as well.
- The captain saying to his heavily armed crew “Return to deck: I’ll take care of this guy myself”. (LOL)
- People who manage to be human shields against high velocity machine gun fire.
- A baddie sailor who – so conveniently – manages to be an almost exact lookalike to Statham!
- These are all features that I would normally lob into the “Negatives” section of my review (which is where they really need to be) but in this case they rather add to the popcorn ridiculousness of the piece in an endearing fashion.
- For lovers of gory action, this one has quite a visceral nature that certainly made the older lady sitting in the row in front of me wince and exclaim “oh my” several times!
- I should also give the film some credit for taking the time at the start of the film to build the relationships between Cole, Tibu and his son Kameron (Chaneil Kular). As in Shelter, which had the adult/child dynamic between Statham and Jessie (Bodhi Rae Breathnach), this at least has you caring what happens to the characters.
Negatives:
- All those pseudo-positive points that I raised above, that really deserve to be in here!
- To add to those, Cole has the most spurious of reasons to want to get onboard the ship: just because one of the baddie henchmen just happens to be a crew-member on the ship. He might have been hired from the Bangkok version of Taskrabbit under the category of “Henchman fodder”. It’s really ridiculous when you think about it.
- In another act of implausibility, the shipping company insists on Angie Ellis (Annabelle Wallis) being a part of the crew, even though this is obviously against the wishes of the captain, and indeed is a surprise to him! All to get a female as a part of the action. (You’d expect in a film of this type for there to be some romantic attachment developed between Cole and Angie, but the whole film remains a remarkably sexless affair.)
Summary Thoughts:
The director of this one is Jean-François Richet, whose last outing was the Gerard Butler actioner Plane in 2023. This is very similar in feel. A film I will have promptly forgotten about in a month’s time but which was entertaining enough while it was on, purely as a popcorn muncher.
As my good friend and film-reviewing colleague the Reverend Andy Godfrey summarised it: “Die Hard on a Boat”. Nuff said.
Where to watch?
Trailer:
The trailer for the film is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKSdXH89jbo.
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