Jason Statham hurts a lot of people in "A Working Man," the new actioner that reteams him with "Beekeeper" director David Ayer.
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The first box office numbers are in for Jason Statham’s latest action movie with David Ayer, A Working Man, but how do they stack up to The Beekeeper? A Working Man seemingly took the day off, as it earned only $1.
The action star plays a seeming everyman with lethal capabilities in David Ayer’s familiar if perfectly watchable revenge thriller.
Stuntman Eddie J. Fernandez, who’s worked with Statham on seven movies, breaks down the nuts and bolts of a fight scene with the star.
Statham re-teams with the director of "The Beekeper" for another smooth-brained piece of schlock that takes full advantage of his screen persona.
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It’s about the exaltation of ass-kicking, and Statham and director David Ayer (working off a script he co-wrote with Sylvester Stallone, based on Chuck Dixon’s novel Levon’s Trade, the first of 12 books featuring Cade) make sure that we feel the visceral thrill of every arm snap,
It’s not ‘The Beekeeper 2,’ but ‘A Working Man’ could serve as a sequel to that David Ayer-directed Jason Statham thriller, just sillier and weirder.
Things aren’t going very well for Jason Statham ’s character in the actor’s new action vehicle. He’s sleeping in his car, desperately in need of funds for the legal fees necessary to secure custody of his young daughter (Isla Gie) from her grandfather.
Not all Jason Statham vehicles are built the same. Certainly there's an element of interchangeability between them, depending on whom it is he's punching: is it cyber scammers ("The Beekeeper"), sharks ("The Meg" and its sequel) or The Rock ("Hobbs & Shaw," the "Fast" movies)?