A Working Man
A fairly basic Jason Statham action flick, A Working Man stars Statham as a retired black ops commando living a simple life as a construction foreman who needs to dig into his old skill-set when the daughter (Arianna Rivas) of his friend (Michael Peña) is taken from a night club. While fighting his way through a cavalcade of indistinguishable bikers, drug dealers, and the Russian mobsters, eventually he'll work himself back to the girl.
There are a couple of scenes woven in where Rivas' character fights back against her captors buying time for our hero to find her. With Statham basically sleepwalking through the expected beats you begin to wonder what the film might have been had the focus remained on Rivas instead. We also get a subplot involving some tension between Statham's character as his father who has custody of the soldier's daughter (Isla Gie), which is never adequately developed on its own nor properly worked into the main storyline.
A Working Man is a no-frills action flick that features neither the over-the-top humor nor the more brutal revenge violence you would expect to try and keep the audience's attention for a near two-hour running-time. It's an underwhelming entry to a genre full of better choices.
- Title: A Working Man
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