{"id":11587,"date":"2025-03-30T00:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T04:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=11587"},"modified":"2025-04-23T00:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T04:54:58","slug":"a-working-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/03\/30\/a-working-man\/","title":{"rendered":"A Working Man"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A Working Man<\/strong> (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MGM\/Action-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 116 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong violence, language throughout, and drug content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: David Ayer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Sylvester Stallone and David Ayer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Jared Michael Fry\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Shawn White\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 28, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jason Statham, David Harbour, Michael Pena, Jason Flemyng, Arianna Rivas, Noemi Gonzalez, Emmett J. Scanlan, Eve Mauro, Maximillian Osinski, Ricky Champ, Max Croes, Kristina Poli, Andrej Kaminsky, Isla Gie, Alana Boden, Greg Kolpakchi, Piotr Witkowski, Richard Heap, Kenneth Collard, Chidi Ajufo, Cokey Falkow, Joanna DeLane, David Witts.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0Jason Statham is a true action star. He always puts on a good show. He\u2019s to this generation what Schwarzenegger, Stallone and Norris were to the 80s or what Seagal and JCVD were to the 90s. We don\u2019t get too many of his breed anymore. Nowadays it\u2019s all about superheroes or big Hollywood stars aided by CGI. Statham is a two-fisted, true blue tough guy who acts as a one man army in his quest for justice. The only real difference between him and the bad asses that came before him is the British accent. That and he can actually act. He growls rather than grunts his dialogue.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Statham\u2019s latest outing A Working Man<\/strong> isn\u2019t all that different from his other films. He plays a seemingly regular guy with a special set of skills. When provoked, he\u2019s extremely dangerous; a lesson learned the hard way by those dumb enough to piss him off. This time, his character\u2019s name is Levon Cade, a construction worker and former soldier who\u2019s trying to put his violent past behind him. A widower, all he wants from life to gain custody of his young daughter Merry (Gie) from his mean father-in-law (Heap) who blames him for his daughter\u2019s suicide.<\/p>\n

\u00a0It\u2019s this personal struggle that makes Levon the ideal candidate for the off-hours job offered to him by his boss Joe Garcia (Pena, Ant-Man). Joe\u2019s attractive college-age daughter Jenny (Rivas, Prom Dates) has gone missing after a night out with friends. She was kidnapped by a couple of creeps, Viper (Scanlan, Kin) and Artemis (Mauro, Cypher), for a sex trafficking ring run by another creep named Dimi (Osinski, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.). Dimi is the brother of Wolo (Flemyng, Transporter 2), a high-ranking boss in the Russian mob. Wolo is one of the bodies Levon drops in his search for the missing girl. Naturally, the Russians want him dead because of it. They have no idea who they\u2019re f***ing with.<\/p>\n

\u00a0A Working Man<\/strong> is directed by David Ayer, the same fellow who directed Statham in last year\u2019s The Beekeeper. It\u2019s written by Ayer and Sylvester Stallone who might have starred in it once upon a time. Originally written as a TV series, it\u2019s an adaptation of the Chuck Dixon (a Philly area native, btw) novel Levon\u2019s Trade. It\u2019s the first of 13 books featuring Levon Cade meaning we\u2019re likely to see a sequel if this one does well. Ayer certainly leaves it wide open for a follow-up. I wouldn\u2019t mind. Levon, although a blue collar version of John Wick, is a cool character. He\u2019s equal parts bad ass and loving dad. He\u2019s equally adept at taking down an army of thugs as he is picking up his daughter from school. He never seems to lose a fight either. I\u2019ll take him over Jack Reacher (the Tom Cruise one) any day.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I\u2019m an action junkie in case you couldn\u2019t tell. [Insert chorus of \u201cNOOOOO!\u201d here] I love a good violent action flick. The bigger the body count, the bloodier the kills, the better. I thoroughly enjoyed The Beekeeper last year. I enjoyed A Working Man<\/strong> too. It doesn\u2019t ask too much from the viewer, no more than any other dopey actioner does. It just asks you suspend disbelief for a couple of hours and watch Statham do what Statham does best, kick ass and not bother with names. The bad guys are despicable and deserve to die painful deaths. The star sees to that. The plot is silly and veers off track on more than one occasion. There\u2019s one extended bit where Levon poses as a drug dealer looking to buy product from a business associate of Dimi. I don\u2019t mind that A Working Man<\/strong> gets sidetracked because it always leads back to Statham doling out justice and swift retribution. I\u2019m good with that.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Ayer keeps things moving swiftly even if not smoothly. The acting is about you\u2019d expect. David Harbour (Violent Night) lends a helping hand as Levon\u2019s blind friend whose life he saved in the service. This dude has quite an arsenal in his tool shed. There\u2019s nothing in the way of character development. A movie like A Working Man <\/strong>doesn\u2019t need it. It needs to do only one, delivers lots of action in two hours. It does that and nothing more. It\u2019s a good and effective action movie. Statham\u2019s fans will be pleased. What more can you ask?\"\"<\/p>\n

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A Working Man (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 MGM\/Action-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 116 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (strong violence, language throughout, and drug content)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: David Ayer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Sylvester Stallone and David Ayer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Jared Michael Fry\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Shawn White\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 28, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jason Statham, David Harbour, Michael Pena, Jason Flemyng, Arianna Rivas, Noemi Gonzalez, Emmett J. Scanlan, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kick-ass-actioners"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/A-Working-Man-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11597,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587\/revisions\/11597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}