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GenreAction, Crime & Thriller
RatedR
Runtime1 hr 59 mins
ReleasedMay 7, 2021
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorGuy Ritchie
StarringJason Statham, Holt McCallany, Jeffrey Donovan
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Wrath of Man (2021)
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| Wrath of Man's Details | |
| Genre | Action, Crime & Thriller |
| Rated | R |
| Released | 04/22/2021 (International); 05/07/2021 (United States); 12/10/2021 (United Kingdom) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 1 hr 59 mins |
| Budget | $40M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Based On | Le Convoyeur by Nicolas Boukhrief and Éric Besnard |
| Country | United States, United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Wrath of Man's Interests | |
| General | Armored trucks, cash depots, LA freeways, tough-guy nicknames, cold stares, long silences. |
| Music | Christopher Benstead |
| Movies | Cash Truck (2004). The French film this one is loosely based on. |
| Television | Mindhunter. Holt McCallany, equally serious, more interviews. |
| Heroes | Bullet (Holt McCallany). Showed the new guy the ropes. The new guy did not need them. |
| Wrath of Man's Crew | |
| Director | Guy Ritchie |
| Writers | Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, Marn Davies |
| Producers | Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, Bill Block |
| Cinematography | Alan Stewart |
| Music | Christopher Benstead |
| Edited By | James Herbert |
| Production | Miramax, Toff Guy Films |
| Distributed By | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (through United Artists Releasing; United States), Lionsgate and Prime Video (United Kingdom) |
No banter, no cheeky narrator, no lovable crooks trading wisecracks: Guy Ritchie switched off his own personality for this one, and it’s both the point and the problem. Wrath of Man is cold, gray and serious, told in shuffled chapters that jump back and forth until the whole robbery snaps together. Jason Statham plays H like a locked vault. He barely speaks, barely blinks, and when the armored truck gets hit, he handles it with a calm that freaks out his whole crew. Josh Hartnett is funny as a guard who talks big and folds fast. Jeffrey Donovan leads a crew of bitter ex-soldiers with real menace. The trouble is that nobody’s easy to root for, H included, and the ending is so grim it feels like the movie forgot to exhale. It made $104 million worldwide on a reported $40M. A 6.3 because it’s tense, tightly built and freezing cold. $106.05 says the next armored truck you pass on the highway gets a lot more following distance than the law requires.
What works: Statham’s stone-faced menace and the shuffled timeline that makes the big robbery click into place.
What doesn’t: It’s so cold and humorless that nobody is worth rooting for, and the ending is relentlessly bleak.
Who it’s for: Fans of tough heist thrillers who don’t need Guy Ritchie’s usual jokes.
Spoilers
H is really Mason Hargreaves, a crime boss whose son was killed in the earlier robbery, and he took the job to find the inside man. It’s Bullet, the friendly trainer, and when the crew’s big heist collapses and the survivors turn on each other, H tracks down the last one, settles things for his son, and walks away from the money.
A quiet guy named Patrick Hill (Jason Statham), nicknamed H, takes a job as a guard at Fortico, a Los Angeles company that moves cash around in armored trucks. He barely scrapes through the shooting test and keeps to himself. His trainer, Bullet (Holt McCallany), likes him anyway. Then a crew tries to hit H's truck, and he deals with it so calmly and so precisely that his coworkers, including Boy Sweat Dave (Josh Hartnett), start wondering who exactly they hired. Guy Ritchie directs. One hundred nineteen minutes, very few smiles.
Anyone who barely passed the test. Suspiciously barely.
Patrick "H" Hill/Mason Hargreavesphoto: MTV International, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
| Jason Statham | Patrick "H" Hill/Mason Hargreaves |
| Holt McCallany | Hayden "Bullet" Blair |
| Scott Eastwood | Jan "Number 1" |
| Jeffrey Donovan | Sgt. Jackson Ainsley "Elvis" |
| Josh Hartnett | "Boy Sweat" Dave Hancock |
| Eddie Marsan | Terry |
| Darrell D'Silva | Mike |
| Babs Olusanmokun | Moggy |
| Laz Alonso | Carlos "Number 2" |
| Raúl Castillo | Sam "Number 3" |
| DeObia Oparei | Brad "Number 4" |
| Chris Reilly | Tom "Number 5" |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 17 October 2026 DataBot +480 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $104M; Domestic box office $27.5M; Opening weekend $8.3M; Profit / loss (est.) -$8M; Rotten Tomatoes 67%; CinemaScore A−; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 67% (256 reviews); Metacritic 57 / 100; CinemaScore A−; IMDb users 7.1 / 10 (244,185 votes); movie.guru score 6.2.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 17 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.