Film Review - Shelter (2026)

Shelter is the new movie by Jason Statham and here the Stath plays Michael Mason a former Royal Marine living in exile on the Scottish Isles but one night he rescues a young girl from a storm and it ends up exposing him to members of the British Government (Naomi Ackie and Bill Nighy) and so he must do what the Stath does best: Kill a Bunch of People to Keep her Safe.

Shelter is purely for fans of the Stath (of which I am one) but I enjoyed myself nonetheless, it’s not as good as the Beekeeper was but I liked it more than I liked A Working Man from last year and the Stath is the Stath you go with it or you don’t and I went with it this time mainly because there was more of a story here that was interesting as compared to A Working Man which felt a bit thin in that regard.

The action here is perfectly serviceable but I do wish the Stath would lift his game in this regard because when I look back at Arnold Schwarzenegger to name as an example went and sort out great directors like James Cameron, Paul Verhoeven and John McTiernan to make his movies and those partnerships created some iconic action classics whereas with the Stath it feels more like Dwayne Johnson, happy to stay in a lane and do that one thing and I wish he would go and find a talented action director like he did with David Ayer on the Beekeeper again.

As for the films villains their okay though one of them came across as Temu Luke Evans while Naomi Ackie and Bill Nighy are serviceable but not spectacular.

And so that was Shelter and its purely for fans of the Stath and it worked well enough for me, 3 out of 5.