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\"\"<\/a>Mutiny<\/strong> (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lionsgate\/Action\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 95 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong bloody violence and language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jean-Francois Richet\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Lindsay Michel and J.P. Davis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Marcus Trump\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Brendan Galvin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 21, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jason Statham, Annabelle Wallis, Roland Moller, Adrian Lester, Simon Kluth, Ramon Tikaram, Jason Wong, Arnas Fedaravicius, Chaneil Kular.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0You pretty much know what you\u2019re going to get from a Jason Statham movie. He\u2019s going to play an ex-something living the quiet life until he\u2019s forced back into action for one or more of three reasons: (1) to help a friend, (2) to clear his name of some wrongdoing or (3) revenge. Lots of violence will ensue and he\u2019ll rack up a sizable body count before he\u2019s done. Some call it redundant. I say why fix it if still works?<\/p>\n

\u00a0In the case of his latest actioner Mutiny<\/strong>, his motive is a combo of 2 and 3. Cole Reed (that\u2019s Statham), an ex-London cop now working as a private bodyguard for a wealthy Bangkok businessman (Tikaram, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love), finds himself falsely accused of murder after his boss is killed in an ambush. This, of course, puts Cole right on the vengeance trail. He needs to (1) clear his name and (2) find out who\u2019s responsible for his friend\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Cole conveniently finds a clue at the scene that leads him to a container ship. He boards with no problem and soon uncovers a human trafficking operation. Now he\u2019s even more pissed off. He\u2019s discovered and the slimy captain (Moller, Atomic Blonde) orders his crew to hunt down the stowaway and deal with him. Yeah, like that ever works.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Luckily, Cole isn\u2019t all alone in his crusade. He gets help from third mate Angie Ellis (Wallis, Malignant), a last-minute replacement for somebody who called out sick. A single mother trying to get home to L.A. to see her young daughter, she helps Cole after realizing her colleagues on the ship are all dirty. She manages to contact a Navy vessel and ask the commander (Lester, Primary Colors) for help. He heads to their location, but will he make it before the bad guys can rendezvous with worse guys?<\/p>\n

\u00a0How am I supposed to \u201creview\u201d a movie like Mutiny<\/strong>? I can\u2019t. The traditional rules don\u2019t apply. It\u2019s not made for critics. It\u2019s not meant to be analyzed. It\u2019s not a statement on the human condition. It\u2019s a Jason Statham movie. That one sentence tells you everything you need to know much like \u201cit\u2019s a Chuck Norris movie\u201d in the 80s and \u201cit\u2019s a Steven Seagal movie\u201d in the 90s. You either like Statham or you don\u2019t. I like him; therefore, I like his movies. It\u2019s really that simple.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Directed by Jean-Francois Richet (Plane), Mutiny<\/strong> adheres to formula throughout. There are no surprises or deviations from what usually happens in these things. The screenplay by J.P. Davis (Plane) and Lindsay Michel is one of those by-the-numbers deals. Cole infiltrates the enemy on their own turf and starts picking them off. He makes his way around the ship, ducking and hiding and shooting and clobbering with whatever\u2019s handy. At one point, he crawls through an air vent to get from point A to point B without being seen. I kind of expected him to bump into Bruce Willis. We also get the usual tough guy dialogue including one priceless line from the Navy captain who quips after seeing fake news about Cole, \u201cA cop-killing fugitive. Just what this s*** show needs.\u201d There\u2019s not of originality here, but Richet keeps things moving along so it\u2019s not that big a deal.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The action scenes are serviceable. Richet doesn\u2019t exactly reinvent the wheel, but he does provide a few solid \u201cOooh!\u201d and \u201cOUCH!\u201d moments. In one memorable bit, Cole uses an open padlock to rip an opponent\u2019s cheek open. Yeah, that\u2019s a great big \u201cOUCH!\u201d We also get deaths by axe, broken glass and harpoon gun. That\u2019s on top of Statham beating the s*** out of members of the ship\u2019s motley crew. There is NO shortage of action in Mutiny<\/strong>. That\u2019s the most important thing I would imagine.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The acting is exactly what you\u2019d expect in a silly B-movie. Statham plays Statham in a no-frills performance. Wallis is there for the estrogen boost. Moller is suitably scuzzy. And as the yuppie creep behind everything that happens, Simon Kluth will not go down in cinematic history as a memorable villain. He\u2019s right out of the Bad Guy 101 textbook.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I enjoyed Mutiny<\/strong> very much. It\u2019s a solid action movie. I saw it with my brother which brought on a sense of nostalgia as it reminded me of my misspent youth when I\u2019d see all the actioners with my dad. He probably would have liked Mutiny<\/strong>. It\u2019s what he would call a matinee movie. It\u2019s ideal for Saturday afternoon viewing at a bargain price.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mutiny (2026)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lionsgate\/Action\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 95 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong bloody violence and language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Jean-Francois Richet\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Lindsay Michel and J.P. Davis\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Marcus Trump\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Brendan Galvin\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: August 21, 2026 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jason Statham, Annabelle Wallis, Roland Moller, Adrian Lester, Simon Kluth, Ramon Tikaram, Jason Wong, Arnas Fedaravicius, Chaneil Kular. Rating: *** […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-now-playing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Mutiny-POSTER.jpg?fit=620%2C918&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14918,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14913\/revisions\/14918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}