Directed by: Ric Roman Waugh
Starring: Jason Statham, Bill Nighy, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Naomie Harris
Shelter is the latest in what seems to be the annual Jason Statham action movie dumped into theaters in mid-January. It will attract his built-in audience, but may not necessarily bring in newbies to the fold. I didn't dislike Shelter, but it's not anything new or special. Statham is capable of bringing us stellar action movies like Wrath of Man and even decent ones like A Working Man, but Shelter is strictly Statham by the numbers, which means he kicks a lot of ass, shoots many others, and utters as few words as possible.
Statham is Mike Mason, a retired (and officially dead) former MI6 assassin who is drawn out of retirement to protect himself and a young girl (Breathnach) from being hunted down by current government killers who are trying to erase him as part of a cover-up. Mike is a man with a particular set of skills who uses them in lengthy action sequences in which you wonder how his hands aren't killing him after delivering so many punches and how his guns never seem to run out of ammo. He also develops fatherly instincts for the young girl and emotes as best he can when speaking to her.
I've seen movies where Statham can deliver some dimensions such as Wrath of Man, The Bank Job, and The Italian Job, and no The Bank Job is not a sequel or prequel to The Italian Job. He's rarely called on to do so anymore, but he's certainly capable of it. Instead, we get Shelter, which is competently made but not likely to last long in your memory more than a few hours after seeing it.
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