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Jason Statham Can Fix Us
His latest killfest, A Working Man, is ridiculous, gorgeous, and enormously satisfying.
The gun in question is an M-14, a rifle that Statham’s character, Levon Cade, is almost queasily familiar with from his 22 years in the military, and it’s the weapon he chooses before going off to mow down the nest of Russian gangsters and drug dealers and human traffickers he’s found himself at war with. Quite the contrary: It’s about the exaltation of ass-kicking, and Statham and director David Ayer (working off a script he co-wrote with Sylvester Stallone, based on Chuck Dixon’s novel Levon’s Trade, the first of 12 books featuring Cade) make sure that we feel the visceral thrill of every arm snap, every neck stab, every head shot. Ayer also directed last year’s The Beekeeper, and much like that film, A Working Man features Statham as an initially reluctant lone angel of the apocalypse reactivating his special set of skills and making his way up the chain of an alternate, hermetically sealed world of smug villainy.
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