Mutiny Review: Jason Statham Takes A Cruise Through Predictable Storms
Title: Mutiny
Director: Jean-François Richet
Cast: Jason Statham, Annabelle Wallis, Roland Moller, Adrian Lester,
Where: In theatres near you
Rating: 2.5 Stars
Some films ask you to suspend disbelief, and others quietly remove it altogether and ask you to hang on. Mutiny belongs to the latter category. Jason Statham plays Cole Reed, a former Marine turned security specialist whose employer is murdered, sending him aboard a cargo vessel where corporate intrigue soon collides with human trafficking, crooked crew members and the sort of villains who seem to have graduated from the School of Uncomplicated Evil.
The premise has potential, particularly with a ship providing a naturally claustrophobic setting for an action thriller. The film makes decent use of its confined spaces, and once Reed is trapped aboard, the pace improves. The trouble is that the journey there is burdened with an overstuffed backstory, convenient coincidences and stretches of dialogue that seem determined to delay the next punch.
Director Jean-François Richet keeps the machinery moving competently, although the film rarely finds a visual identity of its own. Its 95-minute running time ought to make Mutiny lean and mean. Instead, some sequences feel oddly prolonged, with characters traversing corridors and staircases as though the ship has secretly doubled in size.
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