The Wrecking Crew
Bloody violence, offensive language, drug use Rated on: 04 February 2026
What’s it about?
Estranged half-brothers Jonny and James reunite after their father's mysterious death. As they search for the truth, buried secrets reveal a conspiracy threatening to tear their family apart.
The facts
- Directed by Angel Manuel Soto
- English and Hawaiian languages
- Runtime: 124 minutes
- Starring Dave Bautista, Jason Momoa, Roimata Fox, Frankie Adams and Temuera Morrison
- Filmed on location in New Zealand and Hawaii
Why did it get this rating?
This film was self-rated by Prime Video. You can find out more about self-rating by streaming providers here.
Drug use
A character drinks at a bar and quickly realises he’s been drugged: ‘You roofied me?’
A character tips out white powder on a plate at a party, we then see him snort the substance after cutting lines with a credit card. Later we see them snort more powder off the barrel of a handgun.
A character drinks throughout the film and at every opportunity when he sees alcohol.
Bloody violence
The film has several strong fight sequences in the martial style and humour of Jackie Chan films but with more blood and gore. The strongest scenes include:
- In the opening sequence we see a man killed by a van hit and run. We see a close up of the head with blood on the road. We later see a brief close up of the dead man’s head while he lies in the morgue. Later in the film we see security footage of the hit and run from another angle.
- Two yakuza gang members sneak up on a man urinating in his bathroom. They hold a knife to his throat, threatening him while he continues to urinate. They end up having a brutal fist and knife fight throughout the house. Glass is smashed against heads, and kitchen equipment is used as weapons including a cheese grater. The most graphic fight sequence sees a character’s head smashed down on the end of a kitchen bench, and a man’s throat sliced open on broken window frame. The fight sequence is graphic and bloody resulting in a lot of destruction and dead characters.
- A car crash scene becomes a large gun fight sequence with pistols and semi-automatic weapons being fired across a public street. Bystanders become victims but injury isn’t shown.
- A character rips a man’s nipple piercings out without warning. The scene is brief and a shock.
- We briefly see bloodied severed fingers wrapped and sitting on a character’s desk.
- We see an outdoor crime scene with a dead body lying on the roof of a car. The storyline implies they were murdered but the setting is made to look like the character suicided from an apartment complex.
- In a highway fight scene a helmet-wearing assassin gets dragged alongside a fast-moving car, is wedged between the car and the concrete barrier, and then has their arm ripped off. The dismembered arm lands inside the car.
- Bodyguards use various weapons to attack intruders. Weapons include knives, swords, axes, guns and semi-automatic weapons. We see someone killed by being repeatedly hit with a spanner.
Offensive language
There’s a lot of strong language used frequently throughout the film. Characters use it as descriptions, insults and for emphasis. Lines such as ‘I’m f*cking pumped’, ‘You’ve got sand in your vagina’, ‘suck my boto you f*cker’, and ‘fat f*ck’. Other words used include ‘dicking’, ‘damn it’, ‘f*ck’, ‘f*cking’, ‘ars*hole’, and ‘sh*t’.
A Japanese yakuza says to another character: ‘A man who works at Pearl Harbour should know better than to f*ck with the Japanese.’
Nudity and content that may disturb
We see the bare buttocks of male character lying on couch.
A character being held against his will antagonises gang members to a ‘sword fight’ with slapping sounds indicating he’s slapping his flaccid penis against their legs.
A character is drugged and wakes to find he’s tied up and is threatened by the local ‘syndicate’ gang.
A character has his broken nose realigned without warning by another character.
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