A Working Man

"It's a great action movie with Jason Statham. The storyline seems to be set up for another movie following it, but it could technically be left as a single. I am hoping for another movie."

"As a longtime Statham fan, I’m sad to report that I was underwhelmed by this one. It’s not a bad movie but it is VERY sincere and it doesn’t have the weight to pull that tone off. I knew it might be in trouble when Sly Stallone was credited as a co-writer. It has all of his hallmarks. It’s melodramatic, self-serious, has flat dialogue and paper thin villains. The film spends a lot of time with Statham investigating but does absolutely nothing interesting with it. I think they were going for a tone between The Equalizer movies and Reacher but fell well short of both. It’s not all negative. Statham knows what he’s doing and he breathes more life into this character than it deserves. There are a couple of good action sequences in it and David Harbour has an interesting small supporting part. There is a character introduced early on that seems to only exist to be a vulnerability for Statham’s character. The film does nothing with that, as if they’re saving it for the sequel. I don’t think that sequel is coming. 2.75 out of 5 Stars"