Jason Statham's latest action movie Mutiny is getting rotten reviews, and Kalshi traders are taking notice.
Kalshi's Rotten Tomatoes market for the film opened with optimistic projections, but the forecast has since fallen to 49.8% as reviews rolled in, just below the 50% threshold that separates "Fresh" from "Rotten."
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What's it about?
Director Jean-François Richet puts Statham in the role of an ex-cop turned private bodyguard working security aboard a cargo ship.
His boss, shipping magnate Tibu Campallo (Ramon Tikaram), is preparing to retire when he is murdered and Statham's character is framed for the killing.
With the police complicit in the cover-up, Statham stows away on the ship to find the real killer and prove his innocence, uncovering a conspiracy that runs deeper than his boss's murder.
The good reviews
The film currently holds a 42% “Rotten” Tomatometer score, though a handful of critics found things to like.
Owen Gleiberman of Variety called the film a cross between Die Hard and a revenge thriller set on a cargo ship. Gleiberman also praised the film's steady stream of action and fight scenes.
“From Sly and Arnold to John Wick, mano-a-mano fight scenes in movies tend to revel in their showdown-to-the-death choreography, the more elaborate the better,” Gleiberman wrote. “Mutiny is different.”
Jonathan Sim of ComingSoon.net argued that Statham has carved out his own genre of action movie and knows exactly how to deliver what his audience expects.
“He knows exactly what audiences want from him, and he delivers it with the confidence of someone who has perfected a very specific craft,” Sim wrote. “It simply wouldn’t be a Jason Statham movie without a nearly unstoppable tough guy beating the living hell out of a bunch of criminals.”
The bad reviews
Some of the qualities praised by the film's supporters also drew criticism from its detractors.
The Wrap's William Bibbiani found Mutiny's familiar concept underwhelming in execution, calling it “bland” and just another entry in Statham's long catalog of mindless action films.
“It’s like something went awry in the development phase and the first act of another, unrelated, bland action movie accidentally got collated wrong,” Bibbiani wrote. “I guess nobody noticed because Statham’s movies bleed together anyway.”
Jacob Oller of The AV Club gave the film a “C,” crediting its action-fueled finale while arguing that the movie abandons its own plot threads along the way in favor of mindless set pieces.
“That Mutiny doesn’t seem all that interested in its own white savior plot would seem like an ironic virtue, if that plot didn’t just feel like collateral damage in service of Statham’s own brand of grumbly ass-kicking,” Oller wrote.
The takeaway:
Kalshi markets now predict
Mutiny's Rotten Tomatoes score: 49.8%
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