150 Word Review: 'A Working Man' (2025)
Punch in, punch out, punch Russians
Judge an action movie by its villains: in A Working Man, it's Russian sex traffickers who supply foppish perverts with young women drugged at clubs and kidnapped. It was a perfect crime until they snatched a friend of Jason Statham's Levon Cade, an average dude/former Royal Marine who works for construction for the victim's dad, played by Michael Peña, who begs his foreman to use his particular set of skills, which includes blowing away dudes with a shotgun.
This is not Statham and director David Ayer's best, because that would be last year's The Beekeeper, about a secret team of badasses who inexplicably speak in overwrought bee metaphors. But this does scratch an itch. Statham could play this role half-asleep, but he gives his all hunting gross mobsters with the help of an old friend, David Harbour, a blind brother-in-arms who hooks our man up with a few sweet weapons.
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