The motion moviemaking duo of Jason Statham
and director David Ayer proceed to ship following final 12 months’s The Beekeeper, with their newest effort, this month’s A Working Man, now touchdown a knockout rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Whereas The Stath constantly delivers within the motion division, his films don’t at all times succeed with the critics. Fortunately, A Working Man does each, because the newly revealed “recent” rating confirms.
Whereas not fairly reaching the buzzing heights of The Beekeeper’s 71%, A Working Man isn’t far behind. The motion thriller now stands at a stable 67% at time of writing, with critics heaping reward on Statham and Ayer’s return. MovieWeb’s personal Julian Roman heaped reward on A Working Man, and may now really feel The Stath’s subsequent motion franchise incoming…
“Jason Statham and director David Ayer give vile human traffickers a brutal comeuppance in A Working Man, a bone-crushing actioner that delivers precisely what audiences count on. Sylvester Stallone adapts the script from the novel Levon’s Commerce by Chuck Dixon, the primary in a preferred collection of 12 books. Are you able to odor the franchise cooking?”
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Jonathan Sim of ComingSoon.web discovered A Working Man to be the perfect Statham automobile, saying, “In case you’re a fan of Statham’s earlier work—whether or not as a transporter, mechanic, beekeeper, or now, a working man—you’ll discover loads to get pleasure from right here.” Whereas Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter praised the motion star’s dependable “simmering charisma.”
‘A Working Man’ Is Jason Statham’s ‘Reacher’
Pete Hammond of Deadline, in the meantime, favorably compares A Working Man to Statham’s first outing as The Beekeeper, saying, “Right here as in Beekeeper, [David Ayer] delivers a tightly wound motion showcase for his star and retains it shifting alongside.” Sadly, some have taken concern with the motion outing, with Jesse Hassenger of The Guardian concluding, “The film’s regular provide of working-class posturing is a bit a lot, even for the genuinely and charmingly rough-hewn Statham.”
Nonetheless, for these searching for extra of what Jason Statham does finest, Invoice Bria of Discussing Movie has the ultimate say, evaluating A Working Man to nothing lower than the motion basic Rambo and the hit Prime Video collection Reacher.
“Collectively, they’ve now reached the gonzo heights of The Beekeeper (2024) and the Reacher-meets-Rambo grit of A Working Man.”
Directed by The Beekeeper’s David Ayer, and with a script from Statham’s Expendables co-star Sylvester Stallone, A Working Man stars David Harbour (Stranger Issues), Michael Peña (Finish of Watch), Jason Flemyng (Lock, Inventory and Two Smoking Barrels), Arianna Rivas (The Black Telephone 2), Noemi Gonzalez (Selena: The Sequence), and Emmett J. Scanlan (Peaky Blinders, Kin) alongside Jason Statham. A Working Man is scheduled to land in theaters on March 28, 2025, and you may try the ultimate trailer and synopsis beneath.
“Levon Cade left behind a embellished navy profession within the black ops to reside a easy life working building. However when his boss’s daughter, who’s like household to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to deliver her dwelling uncovers a world of corruption far higher than he ever may have imagined.”
Supply: ComingSoon, THR, Deadline, The Guardian, Discussing Movie
A Working Man
3.5
/5
- Launch Date
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March 28, 2025
- Runtime
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116 Minutes