- Title: The Wrecking Crew
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Throwing together Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa, The Wrecking Crew is your basic odd-couple buddy action-comedy with the two cast as reunited half-brothers working to solve their father’s murder (which local officials are all too eager to write off as a traffic accident. Bautista is the straight-laced Navy SEAL with Momoa being the suspended police detective known for coloring outside the lines and getting into trouble.
While not taking full advance of the setting of Hawaii, island politics does play a role in the story. Working together, the brothers uncover a Yakuza connection and a big business swindle that tracks back to a casino developer (Claes Bang) and a local corrupt politician. We also get Morena Baccarin as Momoa’s ex following him to the island, and getting pulled into the increasingly dangerous situation, and, in a much smaller role, Lydia Peckham as the developer’s wife and damsel in distress.
While at times struggling at balancing the humor and action with its attempted dramatic elements, the film delivers about what you would expect. The Wrecking Crew is a mostly fine, if quite forgettable, example of the genre. Before the end we’ll get a big shoot-out (that the plot may not completely earn), the brothers burying the hatchet, and life getting back to normal (or at least what normal looks like for this family).
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