The Stream: Is this supposed to be serious or corny, because I’m confused.

The Big Screen: A few good action sequences.

The Final Bill: An entertaining movie but something is just off with the story and acting.

– S2S: Movie Review
Director: Angel Manuel Soto
Writers: Jonathan Tropper
Stars: Dave Bautista, Jason Momoa, Temuera Morrison
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery
Rating: R (Violence, strong language)
Runtime: 1 hour 55 minutes
Production Companies: 6th & Idaho Productions, Amazon MGM Studios, Dogbone Entertainment
Platform: Released on Prime Video January 28, 2026

Welcome back, Streamers! This review has been in the chamber for a minute, but we forgot to pull the trigger.   Nevertheless, a few weeks back Prime Video came out with a colossal team up in The Wrecking Crew.  This movie follows estranged half-brothers Jonny and James (Jason Mamoa and Dave Bautista) after their father’s untimely death. The brothers band together to search for the truth and, of course, the secrets of the island come to say, “Aloha”.  Violent buddy-cop whodunit hijinks ensue.

This movie fails and succeeds in a strange pattern that makes the whole thing feel a bit off. I’ll start with the cast.  Everyone loves Bautista and Momoa separately and thus you clearly think the pairing would bring magic.   Each has a strong knack for comedic acting,  even if their more dramatic acting is stiff and subpar.  Yet,  somehow the director found the way to get their best and worst takes and mash them together to a weird mishmosh.  Did they want a buddy drama, a buddy comedy? I dont know… it’s somewhere in between.  On one hand, maybe that’s excellent but on the other it was confusing.   Overall, it seems like this screenplay lacked necessary character development, or the director put together a movie that was poorly organized. I will say as corny as Momoa can be in this movie with his drunken kick-butt routine, some of his serious acting points were poignant and others missed the mark.  For Bautista, they went the other way,  not allowing his character those same moments,  stonefaced and emotionless, too much until one scene. Bautista, though a beast, actually possesses some solid range; but, they either didn’t use those edits or chose to portray his character in a way that wasn’t so natural in those moments.  Either way, it missed the mark a bit as some of the serious scenes were solid but surface level and repetitive and some of the comedy was corny but well-placed.  Pick a lane.

The rest of the cast feels secondary and ultra random: parkor chunky tech guy; smart girlfriend with dumb ex but is super mean; bad guy is a nerdy rich guy but also randomly kickbutt.  It’s all random but slightly entertaining, I guess. 

Finally, the action.  There’s a lot of big action sequences. Some pay off and some seem so unrealistic that it’s off putting.  The major thing is Momoa gets a lot of individual shine but Bautista’s character really only gets one sequence of “wrecking”.  This is definitely done on purpose but probably also leaves the viewer wanting more… I guess that’s what sequels are for…

Long story short, The Wrecking Crew is a sibling rivalry caught on camera.  There’s ups, downs, butt kicking, and a mystery investigated.   Momoa makes the movie watchable, and Bautista is Bautista.  Grab a bowl of popcorn and check out this streaming flick.