Mutiny: Plenty of shipboard action

Mutiny (2026) • View trailer3.5 stars (out of five); rated R, for considerable profanity and strong, bloody violenceAvailable via: Movie theatersBy Derrick Bang • Published in The Davis Enterprise, 8.23.26Jason Statham’s action thrillers usually follow a predictable, cookie-cutter series of plot beats: • His character is a seasoned, hardened, stoic, impressively capable and highly decorated former cop/military officer equally adept with weapons and hand-to-hand combat, with a Tragic Memory in his past; Moving cautiously through the innards of the cargo ship Artemis, Cole (Jason Statham)and Angie (Annabelle Wallis) search for a first aid kit, which will allow him to attend toher wounded shoulder.• He has re-entered civilian life in either an isolated, quieter or conventional manner, usually befriending somebody along the way, but said person... • ... gets killed, for some nefarious reason, prompting a won’t-ever-stop vow of vengeance. Lather, rinse, repeat. But why change? It always…