Jason Statham
scored an enormous hit with The Beekeeper in 2024, and his reteaming with director David Ayer for A Working Man
appeared like a surefire repeat of that success, particularly with motion veteran Sylvester Stallone additionally within the combine. Nevertheless, regardless of touchdown combined evaluations from critics however a staggering 91% Rotten Tomatoes rating from audiences, the movie’s field workplace seems to have downed instruments and took a time without work.
A Working Man stars Statham as Levon Cade, a former black ops soldier who’s taking issues simple as a building employee. Nevertheless, when his boss’s daughter is kidnapped by human traffickers, it doesn’t take lengthy for that outdated Statham appeal to interrupt out… by which we imply, persons are going to get kicked round a bit.
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Building foreman Levon Cade (Jason Statham) searches for his boss’s (Michael Peña) kidnapped daughter (Arianna Rivas).
The movie landed an preliminary critics rating of 64%, however has since dropped to 55% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer. Nevertheless, after opening with previews on Thursday, the movie’s first wave of evaluations has been resoundingly optimistic at 91%, which is simply wanting The Beekeeper’s 92%. Whereas it is just early doorways, and sooner or later doesn’t not make a complete gross, Thursday’s preview takings for A Working Man fell a good distance wanting final 12 months’s buzzy motion hit.
In accordance with Collider, A Working Man has posted a Thursday-previews gross of $1.1 million domestically, which is lower than half the two.4 million taken by The Beekeeper. Whether or not this new providing can handle to select up over the weekend on the again of its robust evaluations is but to be seen, however nonetheless its theatrical run ends, there shall be an enormous streaming launch to comply with.
Jason Statham Will Be Again for ‘The Beekeeper 2’
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We all know that each time a Jason Statham film debuts in theaters, one other is already being deliberate to comply with it and maintain everybody dripping in Stath for so long as they will take it. Issues shall be getting sticky for the star when he returns to The Beekeeper franchise for a sequel. Whereas this time it will likely be Timo Tjahjanto within the director’s chair quite than the unique film’s director David Ayer, followers can count on extra of the identical over-the-top motion that made the primary movie such successful.
Taking to his official X/Twitter account, the filmmaker shared a picture from among the best struggle scenes in The Beekeeper, which sees Statham’s murderer come up in opposition to Lazarus (performed by Taylor James), a South African mercenary who has expertise killing Beekeepers and leads his personal crew of killers and employed weapons. Tjahjanto has instructed that the 2 may face off once more within the sequel…
“IMO Lazarus was a reasonably rattling fascinating villain , he’s an asshole however not fairly Evil , simply … a really eager handicapped mercenary with some selection aesthetics,” the director mentioned of the character. With a reputation like Lazarus, and The Beekeeper being certainly one of Statham’s extra absurd films, it will be onerous to rule out a resurrection being on the playing cards.
A Working Man
3.5
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- Launch Date
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March 28, 2025
- Runtime
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116 Minutes