20 Upcoming Movies That Might Be Surprisingly Good

20. The Wrecking Crew

January is traditionally a "dump month" for cinema, in which studios send their most low-effort, unambitious genre slop out to die with little fanfare.

And so, it's fair to be suspicious of The Wrecking Crew, a new buddy cop action-comedy starring Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa, which is being quietly sloughed onto Amazon Prime Video at the end of the month.

The first images from the film were released mere weeks before it plans to drop, there's still no sign of a trailer at the time of writing, and the script spawned from an original idea by Bautista and Momoa.

None of this inspires much hope, then, but there are a few indications it could be a pleasant surprise.

For one, David Leitch (John Wick, Deadpool 2, Bullet Train) was originally attached to direct, and if a skilled genre filmmaker saw something in the script worth pursuing, that's something.

Furthermore, the script itself was written by Banshee and Warrior creator Jonathan Tropper, who clearly knows a thing or two about bone-crunching action, and rather than farm the directing job out to a journeyman for hire, it's got the solid Ángel Manuel Soto (Charm City Kings, Blue Beetle) in the chair.

Here's hoping that The Wrecking Crew defies the odds of a junky-looking action comedy being unceremoniously dropped on a streamer in the first month of the year.