A WORKING MAN
FLIM
“I want to be your sledgehammer.”
P45s ALL ROUND
★
OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 116 MINS
DIRECTOR David Ayer
CAST Jason Statham, Michael Peña, David Harbour, Noemí González, Jason Flemyng
PLOT When his friend’s daughter is kidnapped, ex-Royal Marine Levon Cade (Statham) hunts down the kidnappers — soon embroiling himself in Chicago’s ugly criminal underground.
AWORKING MAN may be the Jason Stathamiest film ever to Stath. With its man-on-amission, hunt-for-a-kidnapped-girl narrative, it borrows wholeheartedly from the likes of Commando and Taken, and effectively steals from John Wick in the “weapons sommelier” played by David Harbour. But this is first and foremost a Jason Statham film, boiled down to its essential ingredients —losing all flavour and substance in the process.