All You Need to Know About 'The Wrecking Crew' Is in the Movie Poster

You can look at the generic movie poster for The Wrecking Crew and instantly understand that it’s another one of those disposable streaming movies with two recognizable stars, designed to generate 100 million viewing hours before completely disappearing from the cultural consciousness. Does anyone remember The Pickup starring Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson? Or Role Play with Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo? Or Deep Cover with Bryce Dallas Howard and Orlando Bloom? Or Heads of State with John Cena and Idris Elba? Or Playdate with Kevin James and Alan Ritchson? I’ve seen them all (and even enjoyed Heads of State), but I barely have any recollection of them because they’re not designed to be remembered. They’re designed to sell Amazon products.

The Wrecking Crew is exactly that. It stars Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa as two estranged half-brothers who reunite in Hawaii to solve their father’s murder. Bautista’s James Hale is a Navy guy; Momoa’s Jonny Hale is a cop. They hate each other but reluctantly work together. There’s some occasional comic relief (Jacob Batalon), a couple of female characters whose job is to tell the men to stop swinging their dicks (Morena Baccarin and Frankie Adams), Claes Bang inexplicably playing a Van Damme-type villain with a manbun (what?), the Yakuza, and a MacGuffin thumb drive attached to a penis key chain.

The biggest mystery to me is why Jonathan Tropper, a decent novelist and the guy behind Banshee and Jon Hamm’s Your Friends and Neighbors, is the screenwriter, but I guess everyone here wanted an easy paycheck.

Jonny and James fight with each other. They fight with other people. There’s a body count higher than a Rambo movie, a villain-behind-the-villain that no one cares about, and a ton of action sequences. Some of them are decent. Some of them are brutal, at least The Wrecking Crew is rated R instead of PG-13. The chemistry between Bautista and Momoa is OK, though Momoa carries most of it. Honestly, the best part is when Morena Baccarin shows up for one of the action sequences.

These movies aren’t even made to be reviewed. What are we doing here? What am I doing here? This movie poster is my review. Everything you need to know about The Wrecking Crew is right here.

‘The Wrecking Crew’ is now streaming on Prime Video.