A Working Man Movie Review
A Working Man is a 2025 American action thriller film directed by David Ayer, who co-wrote the script with Sylvester Stallone. It is based on Levon’s Trade a 2014 novel by Chuck Dixon. The theatrical release was on 28 March 2025 and then released on digital platforms, including Amazon Prime, on 15 April 2025.
The movie stars Jason Statham as A Working Man… an ex-Royal Marines commando-turned-construction foreman. When his employer’s daughter goes missing he dusts up his legendary skills and goes knocking on doors and taking names.
The Good
Its Jason Statham… you know what you getting yourself into, a movie that’s a cross between Taken and John Wick, he has locked in his reluctant hero, gruff sounding character from The Transporter to The Beekeeper and pretty much anchors this production with grit and charisma.
The movie gets a nod for pushing the blue-worker hero, a role everyday people can relate to, a father who served his country and now sleeps in his truck to raise lawyer fees to fight for custody for his daughter and by day, supervises a construction outfit — A Working Man.
Its a fast-paced film with not much time for anything else, except setting up the action set pieces.
The Bad
The predictability, someone gets taken and the hero has a special set of skills, skills he will use to find the person who was taken… sounds familiar? The retired veteran trope is also a well done plot device where a character is reluctant to come out of “retirement” and do the one thing they are singularly good at with deadly efficiency.
The villains are nothing but an excuse for the retribution that will visit them, presented as whimsical characters fuelled by paper thin motives serving nothing beyond being fodder for mayhem. The one villain who is half-decent and remotely interesting is wasted.
A Working Man takes itself a little too seriously for the type of movie that it is, which lives it feeling like an ambitious attempt at reaching for the sun and being consumed by it.
The Ugly
It is in the ultra-violent realm of productions which can be a bit much for more sensitive audience.
The movie had a point to make about family, but that all gets lost in the larger than life action and throw away dialogue with one-liners that miss more than they hit.
Final Thoughts
A Working Man is another Statham movie, not as memorable or original as the others but fans might still watch for the culture.
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