I feel that I have seen 200 Jason Statham movies in the last two years, and I still expect the next one to be too much. A working man (Now transmit on Vod platforms as Amazon Prime Video) could be so, although I doubt an accusative finger to his lovely one, who constantly defends the spirit of the old school’s action stars, even if the film in which he is in Dreco. Statham meets with his The beekeeper Director David yesterday, whose career has diverted himself as an impressive muscular (End of clock and Rage; Hey too Training day) for a miserable bath (Bright” Suicide squad). This new excursion adds a couple in good faith to the creative mixture, with yesterday and Sylvester Stallone collaborating in a script, which is based on the novel Levon trade By Chuck DixonA comic writer with impressive credits, including Batman and The Punisher. A working man It feels like a thematic continuation of the wildly stupid Mediumwhich established a new precedent for the ridiculous of Statham. But that is a more difficult act to follow what would be expected.
The yeast: Question: Statham ha No Did you play a former type of options? Do you know, special operations, black operations, operating operations? He definitely has the face for PAHO: Tern, Inexplay, Observe, Frhilly, eyes that go through all the things he looks. Then it goes for A working manWhere he plays Levon Gift, a former Royal Marines Whupper-Of-Asses, but now the thing in the movie’s title. It is a foreman of a construction company owned by the Garcias (Michael Pena and Noemi González), and has seen and done things, things far beyond launching around two with four and hammers from Peen. Do you know how the freshly divorced father of Milhouse once boasted that he sleeps in a race bed? Well, Levon One-up’s The Sad Dadness when sleeping in his truck and starting his mornings with a little instant coffee powder, stir on the steering wheel. Heat the water? I am not sure if the water heats. But Statham’s characters do not care shit heat the water. They do not need hot coffee unless they have to calm the face of an evil mother with some.
Before getting violence, let’s address why he sleeps in his truck. He is a widower with an adorable daughter, Merry (GIE Island), who lives with his rich Dicknos of a father -in -law, who tries to cut the tiny custody Alreaty by Intoto Levon. Therefore, Levon needs every penny that he can search to pay lawyers so that he can see a child, although all the violence that perpetrates through the film is an argument against his paternal agency, but he is never right, in films such as this torture and kills unpleasant criminals that sell drugs and participate in sexual trafficking. So, in this context, remember, it is perfect to encourage Levon every time he breaks a neck or puts a bullet in the liver of a disgusting, then he continues with his life as if you were not simply supporting a sociopathán for two hours.
Now, I know what you are thinking: traffickers kidnap their daughter, right? No! They kidnap Garcias’s teenage daughter, Jenny (Arianna Rivas), because this plot is complicated without any good reason. As Complicated? Complicated enough, that there are several layers of bad guys for Levon Mate, in a notable accredited roles. They are all messy, marked, tattooed or sitting in massive game of Thrones Thrones but made of motorcycle pieces, for a great comedy, although it did not help me differentiate them in any way, or find out if there was any kind with the criminal company. But who cares, right? I mean, most of them are Russian gangsters, and very few those The films characters have any quality of forwarding beyond having ugly faces began to be perforated or screwed in hamburgers. Ah, and David Harbor has two, maybe three scenes dispensable in the movie, playing one of Levon’s old friends. Anyway, Statham does what Statham does, with what son of efficiency, class. That’s how it is – brutal Efficiency. There is no other way for Statham to do it, really.
What movies will you remember you?: The Stallone garbage classic Cobra It comes to mind, but at least that movie had my tongue on my cheek. A working man He is generic statham, less like his things of Shopy Nudgy in Guy Ritchie’s films, The beekeeper ORPÍN SpyMore like The mechanic” Parker ORPIN Wildcard.
It is worth seeing the performance: Statham makes its way through this material too serious as a professional, although a professional without inspiration. Only Chidi Ajufo, like Baddie on the throne of the motorcyclist, seems to be taking advantage of the best of things, injecting a little spirit into their line readings.
Memorable dialogue: Here are two good through bad guys:
“Who are you? Who are you? F— You. F— You! F – Youuuuuuuuuuuu!” – Wolo Kolisnyk (Jason Flemyng)
“Look those bricks. You are not a policeman, you are a work! ” – DUTCH (AJUFO)
Sex and skin: Nah.
OUR TOMA: One can feel the silent thrust and pull between the Rambo-The severity of the writing style of Stallone and yesterday’s compulsion to inject the film with some comedy SLY SLATHAMSQUE. That leaves A working man In a tonal country of No-Man, it is flat, soft and flavor, and faithful to its title in its workers’ channel to spend the day, hit at 5 pm and break a cold one. Everything is shocking without creativity or inspiration. There is a scene in which Levon Sluthters a man looks at his “brick” or a hand, it is possible to almost contemplate what he has just done, then he passes to the next shower. Death is just a part of life, you know!
Meanwhile, the story walks for almost two hours, Levon ends repeatedly in a wooded swamp that is symbolic of the film’s rhythm, our “hero” apparently according to taking his sweet time to become made as a teenager Jenny faces a worse destin Feminías, theoretically, anyway, since she moves and scratched her captains and generally seems to be afraid of anything because, feminism, theoretically? Sure. Feminism.
Stylistically, the film is a indomitable visual florite smales and a crazy dog of a dress department that really needed to be reassured and whipped. There is a highly thematic reason for that, thought, since the types of true blue neck such as Levon are fine in boatbots and carhartts, while the bad guys get all the woppish withsts, canes, hats, eyeliners, leather cats. Meanwhile, yesterday you can not decide whether it is good to kill us with glasses of lenses, digital blood or the edition of the Death Action sequence by ants. None of this establishes Statham for success, yes, and everything comes out disappointing without humor, a cylinder of its truly murderer’s presence. You have the feeling that yesterday you know exactly what you are doing, but you don’t care if you have any visual or tonal sense. With A working manHe is just an artist who makes bad art.
Our call: Sub-Part Statham. Omit it.
John Serba is an independent and critical writer with headquarters in Grand Rapids, Michigan.