A Working Man (2025)
Reviewing a Jason Statham action movie is similar to reviewing a Big Mac from McDonald's....
To alter Forrest Gump's famous assertion about a box of chocolates.... In a J.S. movie, you always know what you're gonna get......
Brutal hand-to-hand combat......copious amounts of automatic weapons fire.....and no end of vile scum-of-the-earth villains who, one painful way or another suffer agonized deaths at the skilled hands of the Jason-ator.....
To put it simply.....we watch these movies to see terrible people Statham-ized!!! The more of 'em, the merrier. The gore of 'em the merrier too......
In this particular film, Statham plays......wait a sec, do we really need to discuss who the hell he plays or what he does?
Nah.....but if you must know, he's a beekeeper....no wait...that was the last one. A farmer? A gardener? A pest exterminator? (Actually, bug zapper fairly sums up Statham's agenda in all his movies, so let's leave it at that.
But if you must know, he's Levon Cade a construction foreman and former British Royal Marine ass-kicker extraordinaire. Like the Incredible Hulk, you won't like him when he's angry, which brings us to.....
..........the bad guys, whom, in order for these movies to succeed in their minimal goal of maximum carnage, must present themselves as revolting, repugnant and slimy as inhumanly possible.
In this category, 'A Working Man' does not disappoint.
It's that familiar bunch of all-purpose, detestable demons, those heavily-tattooed Russian Oligarch mobsters who dabble in human sex-trafficking.
These smug slugs, who revel in their omnipotent scariness, are so aching to be punched and bullet-shredded, it's lucky for us they've pissed off the wrong guy....three guesses as to who.....
They've foolishly abducted, for sex-torture sessions, the beloved daughter of Statham's best friend and employer......a very bad move, since Statham's been tasked by her family to bring her back.
You know the rest.....let the blood soaked butchery run rampant, with hordes of repellant Russkies who find themselves properly Statham-ized in all manner of deeply satisfying ways. Do we need to go on? Come to think of it, after the body pile-up finishes, it's end credit time.
As we said at the start, it's a Big Mac with all the usual trimmings, no different from the last Jason Statham Big Mac we inhaled or the next one.....
Rating this couldn't be simpler. If you dig the Statham-izer, it's a 3 star (***) comfort watch (much like Liam Neeson's long string of 'they-pissed-off-the-wrong-guy' movies).
But for those who demand a little more artistry, storyline and compelling characters in their action-adventures, this is no gourmet meal.....just another 2 star (**) burger, fresh off the grill. Proceed with caution.
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