Their audience score says Mutiny is an 85. People actually talking about it say 56.
Mutiny opened on Wednesday with the most dependable premise in the business: Jason Statham, framed for his billionaire boss' murder, boarding a cargo ship to hunt the conspiracy behind it. Jean-Francois Richet directs. And on Rotten Tomatoes, the audience number looks like a hit: an 85% Popcornmeter score.
We measure something different. Not star ratings clicked by people who chose to rate, but what people actually say about a film in public social media conversations after seeing it, classified and scored nightly, with the sample size printed next to every number. On that yardstick, Mutiny's opening week is not an 85. It is a 56, from 481 verified reactions at our highest confidence tier.
The score climbed for five days, then hit a ceiling
Thursday morning, built from the first 92 reactions, Mutiny sat at 47. Then the Statham faithful showed up: 48 on Friday, 52 on Saturday, 54 on Sunday, 56 on Monday. This morning, with the sample grown five times over, it is still 56. Nine points of climb, then flat.
That shape is the opposite of a word-of-mouth hit. The End of Oak Street climbed all week because new audiences kept liking it more. Mutiny climbed because the film found its core audience, and stopped climbing the moment it ran out of them.
An 85 and a 56 are describing different rooms
Both numbers are called an audience score. They are not measuring the same audience. A ratings widget hears from people who bought a ticket to the thing they already wanted and then chose to rate it. Public conversation hears from everyone: the fans, the dragged-alongs, the people who wanted one more good Statham movie and came out annoyed that they did not get it.
Our full split from 481 reactions: 47% positive, 17% mixed, 36% negative. Against the 85% stands a 47% share of positive reactions, a 38 point gap. For scale, the biggest critics-versus-crowd gap we measured this summer was Obsession's 42 points. Mutiny's gap is nearly that size, and it is with their own audience number.
What people praised, and what they buried
The aspect tallies make the 56 legible. What works: the humor scores 86 when it comes up, though it only came up 14 times; the visuals score 69 across 52 mentions; the acting 68 across 63. Statham delivers the Statham experience, and the film looks expensive.
What sinks it: the story scores 37 out of 100 across 129 mentions, the single most discussed aspect of the film. Pacing sits at 42 from 19 mentions. And originality scores 16 from 48 mentions, the lowest aspect number we have recorded for a wide release this summer. The consensus complaint is not that Mutiny is broken. It is that everyone has already seen it, under other titles, some of them also starring Jason Statham.
It is Statham's movie, for better and worse
Jason Statham drew 272 mentions, more than every other name combined, and the room splits on him: 43% positive. Director Jean-Francois Richet drew 33 mentions at 30% positive. Annabelle Wallis drew 20 at 35%. Cole Reed, the character, came up 10 times at 40%. Die Hard surfaced as the recurring comparison point, which tells you what people wanted this to be.
The verdict so far
A 56 at very high confidence is not a flop verdict. It is a split room: a film that does exactly what its poster promises and nothing beyond it. If you are in the 85%, you knew you would be before the lights went down. The other half of the conversation is why the number sits where it sits.
Mutiny's score updates every night as new reactions come in. The live number, the trend, and the full breakdown: See Mutiny's live Real Score