A Working Man is the standard Jason Statham action film directed by David Ayer. Ayer co-wrote the script with a certain Sylvester Stallone. The film also stars Michael Pena, David Harbour, Arianna Rivas, Andrej Kaminsky, and others.
Levon Cade is a hard-working construction foreman who also happens to be a former special operations commando. He also happens to be pretty close to his boss and his family. When the daughter gets kidnapped to be trafficked into some kind of sex slavery operation, Cade reluctantly decides to dust off his old lethal skills and begins the bunt. He also has to contend with a custody issue concerning his daughter. It seems that his late wife’s father has some issue with Cade’s former occupation and is drastically limiting his time with his own kid. Cade will have to put his personal troubles aside and kill his way through the Russian mafia in order to keep a promise to a friend.
This is a by-the -numbers action film without any real depth, but Statham is still kind of fun to watch. Rivas plays the kidnapped girl and is kind of a spunky type, so she was kind of interesting. Statham’s acting range is pretty non-existent, but some of the side characters sort of make up for that.
There are some pretty good fight scenes and Statham performs those quite convincingly even if the choreography itself is somewhat unbelievable. It’s really just standard action film shenanigans.
It’s another film that manages to be entertaining without offering much to stick to the memory. Even if Statham doesn’t display much variety in his performances, he does possess a strange charisma in his stoicism.
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