A Working Man

It's very punchy, crunchy, stabby, stabby, shooty, but not funny... it's a lower ranking Stath thing.

The fun is undermined by dialogue that is overmasticated, Russian-accented word mulch. In the end, A Working Man takes itself rather too seriously for a movie that unironically uses Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata as a recurring musical motif.

Statham is at the top of his game in this formulaic but satisfying, wannabe pre-summer blockbuster, and he’s the last of a breed of stone-faced theatre kids playing unstoppable badasses.

Ben Greaves’ sound mixing is notable. Shawn White’s cinematography is of a higher grade than one usually sees in the genre, working with production designer Nigel Evans to generate some memorable images and textures.

A Working Man isn’t afraid to make its spectacles of slaughter visually enchanting.

Visually, “A Working Man” flips from absurd stylization to handheld faux-realism and back again.

It’s all punchy-kicky-shooty without much creativity or inspiration.

Its a Jason Statham movie and for many that alone is enough.

While Statham's undeniably watchable presence offer some momentary thrills, the film's reliance on an over-the-top and convoluted plot and its disastrously weak villains ultimately transform it into a ridiculous, and unfortunately forgettable watch.


“A Working Man” pulls together better than the usual snatch-and-grab-for-ransom films.