A Working Man

A brutal, stripped back revenge flick that doesn’t waste your time.

A Working Man doesn’t pretend to be anything it’s not and that’s exactly why it works. It delivers violence with purpose, tension with weight, and a lead performance from Statham that reminds you why he’s still one of the last real action stars standing.

This isn’t some polished Marvel knockoff or a wannabe Oscar bait drama. It’s raw, focused, and unapologetically direct. The world’s gone soft this film hasn’t. The pacing is tight, the score punches through, and when the action hits, it hits hard.

Yes, it’s stylized. Yes, it’s gritty. But underneath the brutality is a story about justice, loyalty, and a system that’s lost its soul. Stallone’s influence is all over this old school DNA in a modern world, refusing to play by sanitized rules.

If you’re after another lazy Netflix background movie, look elsewhere. If you want something with blood, bite, and no filters this is it.

As always with most jason statham movies, it's really entertaining filled with good fighting and shooting scenes, I loved the movie, it's great overall for action lovers, all the people who watch and enjoy these types of movies are here for the action and not the story.

Good movie to relax. Everything that was expected from the actor happened, from action, combat, etc.

Edge of your seat action with a heart

Fun action movie. Statham is an ex military guy and uses his skills to track down the location of a girl. Killing everyone in his path. Evidenlty this is based on a book series so there could definitely end up being a few sequels. If you like other Jason Statham movies you'll like this one.

Typical Stathan movie : fantastic. You know what hou get and it didnt disappoint.

'A Working Man' is imperfectly very good. I do have a couple of issues with it, but all in all I have to say that I did enjoy this to a fairly strong degree. Jason Statham seldom disappoints in an action thriller, I'm a fan of his so was always likely to get the required fun out of this.

Statham is great, naturally without him the movie would be vastly less entertaining. Away from the former British diver (still can't quite believe that's the same guy!), there are too many characters - which is one of the issues I have. There didn't need to be so many peeps in this.

Even so, those onscreen are all decent enough and none register as overt negatives in my mind. David Harbour does well in a small role, he usually speaks the same way in roles but this feels minorly different. Michael Peña and Arianna Rivas are solid, as is Jason Flemyng.

The latter's character should've be the only bad guy in this, or at least one of a few. He gives enough that we didn't need anyone else in my opinion, especially as 'higher-ups' Andrej Kaminsky and Maximilian Osinski give weaker performances. Chidi Ajufo is the best of the rest.

My other issue lies with the run time. I guess with so many characters it did need to be almost two hours in length, however you could've told this story within 90 minutes without a doubt. But again, as noticeable as that and the other issue is, it at least doesn't hinder much for me.

If it wasn’t for Jason Statham this film would die on its arse. But hey, it’s Jason Statham, so therefore it’s a great and brutal movie much like sly, arnie, JCVD during the 80’s and 90’s. Loved it despite the usual weak plot and so on. If you like mr S watch it, if you want deep and meaningful plot lines and scripts go elsewhere.

A Working Man might be just another action flicks for you guys, but this is FAR better than what Marvel Disney produced this year.

David Ayer is a far better director than Gunn. His Suicide Squad's Director's Cut proved that idiots at the Hollywood management knew sh17 about film making. Gunn's Suicide Squad was a piece of whatever left of what you eat packaged with bow and pink gift wrapper.

Joined script between Stallone and Ayer provided a very well formulated action flicks. Ayer somehow gave Statham screen time to prove that he can act.

Jason Statham stereotypical hero's characters are always quite, tense and fast martial art moves. When did you see Statham showed emotion with softness mask like he was so afraid that he would put a crack on a crystal vase that was his daughter. Statham was a A class actors without too many opportunities to showcase his acting prowess for quite a long time. The last movie he showcased his acting was Snatch.

I love this kind of storyline and directorial style. A Working Man was never a action film, it was an experience in the shoes of "a working man", a retired military personnel in a mission. It's a bit slow compared to Bee Keeper, Transporter series or Fast Furious. And I enjoyed the experience.

Highly recommended

Come on! That's better than, "good."

And, thank the piracy gods, a good and proper distribution copy... no One-X-bet bullsh##!!

I hope his projects don't go downhill like so many before him. Production values may be a little lower -- and, as others have noted, other characters may not be up to snuff. Fun stuff, still!