A Working Man (2025)

Unoriginal Violent Action Film - A Working Man review by GI

Basically a film that replicates more or less every other Jason Statham film adding nothing new as it's just another of those plots where an everyman who has a special set of skills goes on the rampage all in a good cause. This is a clumsy action film with a lead character that comes from a series of books, a bit like the Reacher series, and here adapted for the screen with that worrying hint their maybe a sequel or two! Statham plays Levon Cade, a construction foreman who used to be in the military. When his bosses daughter is abducted for the sex trafficking trade Cade agrees to find her. This leads to the Russian mafia, loads of ever more cartoonish villains for him to despatch as the film goes on, lots of violence and zero originality. Scripted by Sylvester Stallone, who no doubt still thinks he's the ultimate avenger, this rips from Taken (2008), The Equalizer (2014) and loads of similar films. Jason Flemyng hams it up as a Russian gangster and David Harbour has a cameo but does essentially nothing. It's rather pointless and daft and hardly worth the time.