When this project was first being touted, it only needed one good reason to pair up Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa for the first time - $16 billion. That’s the sum they have collectively contributed with the box office takings from their respective films.

Now it’s hardly going to make any money – not at the box office at any rate as it’s a streaming only release on Amazon Prime Video – but you can guarantee it’s going to be seen with these bulk earners attached. But is it actually worth watching?

Former Navy Seal James Hale (Bautista) gets some news training cadets in the pool in Hawaii – his father has died.

He wasn’t close to him, so doesn’t think too much of it, but is nagged gently by his wife Leila (Roimata Fox) to contact his half-brother Jonny, who lives in Oklahoma, and tell him the bad news. He doesn’t, but his wife does, and leaves him a voice message.

When Jonny gets it, he also receives some unwelcome visitors to his home, Yakuza gangsters who are demanding the package his father sent him, that Jonny knows nothing about. After he’s dealt with them, he decides to make his way back home to Hawaii, and attend his father’s funeral.

Once there, and dealing over the awkwardness with his half-bro, they realise that there’s more to their father’s death than they were told, and his death was far from a road accident.

Despite their deep grudges, they end up working to together to investigate his death, and track down his killers, displaying their unique brotherly ‘love’ in the most violent of fashions.

It would have been a no brainer to bring this successful pair together, considering their box office power, in a relatively generic buddy ‘cop’ flick. And to a certain extent, that’s what this is, but it also has a surprising amount of emotional depth to it.

There is a lot of animosity between the characters; Jonny’s mother was murdered and felt not only abandoned by James, but pushed away from him, lacking his support and finding himself starting afresh in Oklahoma. They share something in common however, resentment towards their father, who wasn’t a great role model in ether of their lives. This has left their own relationship fractious at best.

Around this family dynamic, director Angel Manuel Soto (whose last film was 2023’s hugely entertaining Blue Beetle) has created some exhilarating action sequences. Not only that, there’s a number of brutal, kick-ass fight scenes that deliver a hefty punch.

And even though this is the first time they’ve worked together, Bautista and Momoa have a visible on screen chemistry together, both physically and emotionally, which gives the film an extra dimension, and makes up for the formulaic plot.

There’s an opportunity for the pair to join up for a further Wrecking Crew instalment, and on this evidence, that would a make a worthy family reunion to look forward to.