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"A Working Man is a textbook example of a movie that fails in every fundamental aspect of its own genre.
Without impactful action sequences, engaging characters, or any valid attempt at innovation or narrative depth, David Ayer delivers a frustratingly generic, utterly forgettable experience.
Jason Statham does his best to elevate a project doomed from the first draft of the script, but not even his charismatic presence can save a film that will inevitably end as one of the worst of the year."
Rating: D
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FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://fandomwire.com/a-working-man-review/
"A Working Man is a textbook example of a movie that fails in every fundamental aspect of its own genre.
Without impactful action sequences, engaging characters, or any valid attempt at innovation or narrative depth, David Ayer delivers a frustratingly generic, utterly forgettable experience.
Jason Statham does his best to elevate a project doomed from the first draft of the script, but not even his charismatic presence can save a film that will inevitably end as one of the worst of the year."
Rating: D
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<em>'A Working Man'</em> is imperfectly very good. I do have a couple of issues with it, but all in all I have to say that I did enjoy this to a fairly strong degree. Jason Statham seldom disappoints in an action thriller, I'm a fan of his so was always likely to get the required fun out of this.
Statham is great, naturally without him the movie would be vastly less entertaining. Away from the former British diver (still can't quite believe that's the same guy!), there are too many characters - which is one of the issues I have. There didn't need to be so many peeps in this.
Even so, tho…
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"A working Man" is an accidental satire, of the US action film genre.
Working class guy, who served in the military and now works for a migrant families construction company, looks to save their angelic daughter, the vision of perfection, from the evil Russian human traffickers.
Everything is an exaggeration. From the notion of the working class guy, a rough diamond, a patriot, with a heart of gold. The migrant family with the dutiful, over achiever on steroids daughter, the true inheritors of the American dream. Even, the minimum wage construction workers, who are told to make sure th…
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On paper, director David Ayer‘s revenge action thriller “A Working Man” should be a slam dunk for Jason Statham. Based on Chuck Dixon’s novel “Levon’s Trade,” it has all the familiar elements that not only cater to the actor’s strengths, but also to the desires of his most die hard fans. Unfortunately, very little about the film works, and it comes across as dull, predictable, and unmemorable.
Levon (Statham) is a former black ops solider turned construction worker who is forced to return to his lethal past when his boss’s daughter (Arianna Rivas) is abducted by human traffickers. What star…
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Well if you just thought Jason Statham was going to make a movie about the dangers of the construction industry then the first few scenes will put you straight and give a clue that his past is altogether more violent. That is going to come in handy when the daughter of his boss is kidnapped-to-order by some people traffickers and he is, initially reluctantly, drafted into track her down. With consummate ease, he sets about his task facing down some of the menacing Russian brotherhood who rule the roost supplying girls, drugs and booze to whoever can afford to pay! Can he find the girl? Will th…
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Was really good. Jason's movies never disappoint.
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I was fairly sure that I would like this movie. For starters it is a Statham movie and I almost always like Statham but, in addition, the ever so useless “critics” at the rotten site wrote it down (the audience gave it 87% fresh).
It is a pretty conventional action movie with elements from a lot of previous action movies. It has the usual bits in it like the lone very kick-ass hero, a kidnapped daughter, some mafia guys and other assorted criminals to beat up in various ways and plenty of guns and things that goes boom.
It is never going to win any rewards for its script, acting or reali…
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