‘A Working Man’ Review: Jason Statham Battles Russian Mob In Familiar Violent Action Vehicle
deadline.comWith a Jason Statham-starring movie you know upfront what to expect. A Working Man is no different. In fact I don’t know why they bother to give these movies titles.
Just call it Jason Statham and put a number after that for all the inevitable sequels. In fact A Working Man seems set up to start a franchise for Statham in which he plays Levon Cade, a former Royal Guard soldier now working as a blue collar Chicago construction worker who is trying to be a good family man grieving the loss of his wife and attempting to get custody of their daughter, Merry (Isla Gie) whose grandfather is attempting to take away from Levon.
This film is based on the book “Levon’s Trade” by Chuck Dixon who has 12 books in all fashioned after the character. Director David Ayer teams again with Statham after last year’s successful violent actioner, The Beekeeper, and the screenplay comes from him and none other than Sylvester Stallone who no doubt likes the Rambo-ish loner-style resemblance to Cade.
Storywise Cade is enlisted to help one of his co-workers, Joe Garcia (Michael Pena) and his wife Carla (Noemi Gonzalez) who are distraught after their scrappy daughter Jenny (Arianna Rivas) has been snatched by the Russian mob and sold into their sex trafficking operation.
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