Jason Statham's Mutiny Turns 20 Crewmen Into Cargo-Ship Targets
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Updated · Variety · Aug 19
Jason Statham's Mutiny Turns 20 Crewmen Into Cargo-Ship Targets
3 articles · Updated · Variety · Aug 19
Summary
Set largely aboard the cargo ship Artemis, “Mutiny” follows Statham’s Cole Reed as he hunts down about 20 crew members after his Bangkok shipping-magnate boss is murdered in an ambush.
That revenge plot widens when Cole finds a container packed with trafficked people from Thailand—many of them children—linking the killing to a broader conspiracy involving corrupt police and the ship’s captain, Marko.
Jean-François Richet stages the action as a stripped-down “Die Hard on a boat,” using the vessel’s pipes, catwalks and tools as weapons while Statham dispatches enemies with fast, brutal efficiency.
The review casts Annabelle Wallis’s third mate Angie as Cole’s key ally and says the film revives the enclosed-action formula with hard-edged violence and dark humor, capped by a harpoon-gun climax.