‘Mutiny’ Review: Jason Statham Dies Hard on a Cargo Ship in a Thriller of Impeccable Bring-the-Pain Timing

Out to avenge the murder of his shipping-tycoon boss, Statham's ruthless bodyguard turns mano-a-mano combat into blithe execution.

By Owen Gleiberman

Owen Gleiberman

Chief Film Critic

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By the early ’90s, it had become clear that “Die Hard” was the most paradigmatic thriller of its era, imitated in scores of knockoffs that kept the spirit but changed the locale. Thus, we got “Die Hard on a Plane” (“Passenger 57,” “Air Force One”), “Die Hard on a Bus” (“Speed”), “Die Hard on a Train” (“Under Siege 2: Dark Territory”), “Die Hard in the White House” (“Olympus Has Fallen”), and the one that finally ran the cycle aground — “Die Hard on a Boat,” which served the first “Under Siege” well enough but stalled the overblown, too-slow-for-speed “Speed 2: Cruise Control.”

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