Jason Statham’s newest thriller, A Working Man, has quietly dropped onto Prime Video in the UK. Subscribers can now stream the film, which sees the British action mainstay doing what he does best: dishing out justice with blunt force and gritted teeth.
Directed by David Ayer, A Working Man marks another collaboration between the filmmaker and Statham, following last year’s outing The Beekeeper. Once again, the duo dives headfirst into gritty territory, this time adapting Levon’s Trade, a novel by comic book writer Chuck Dixon.
Statham stars as Levon Cade, a former Royal Marine who’s swapped battlefield chaos for a quieter life in Chicago’s construction scene. But when his boss’s daughter is abducted by human traffickers, Cade is forced to revisit his violent roots. “Violence follows you like a cloud,” someone tells him in the film—a line that’s trying very hard to sound profound but lands with a thud.
David Harbour (Stranger Things) plays Gunny Lefferty, a blind ex-Marine who joins Levon on his mission. Their chemistry is gruff, loaded with the kind of weathered camaraderie that doesn’t need much dialogue. Michael Peña and Noemi Gonzalez play the parents of the kidnapped teen, while Jason Flemyng shows up as a cold-blooded member of the Russian mob. Merab Ninidze adds to the Eastern European villainy as Yuri.
The script, co-written by Ayer and none other than Sylvester Stallone, doesn’t shy away from action, but it stumbles in tone. While the film attempts to tap into heavy themes like PTSD and human trafficking, the execution can feel clunky and superficial. Still, for fans of Statham’s well-worn brand of bone-crunching justice, there’s comfort in familiarity.
This isn’t a reinvention. It’s another notch in Statham’s long belt of playing lethal, haunted characters. But sometimes, that’s all an audience wants: a hard man with a haunted past, punching his way toward redemption.
A Working Man is now streaming on Prime Video in the UK.
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