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Hello Cinephiles,
Today we’re talking about the 2025 film The Working Man.
Story
The story walks the line between horrifying and a little bland. No one gets violated and none of the good people get killed. The movie writers went out of their way to make sure we felt nothing for the villains.
Score: 0
Characters
Statham tends to play three characters: the seemingly emotionless killer, the angry vengeful killer, and the befuddled killer. In this one he’s the second. Unfortunately, giving him a daughter didn’t add much to the story. It was probably the lack of interactions with her.
As usual, the supporting characters were interesting, and the kidnapped girl kicks serious ass.
The villains are bland beyond remembering.
Score: 0.5
Dialogue
A few lines were great and I really liked all the interactions between Harbour and Statham; they were excellent.
Score: 0.5
Visuals and Music
The locations were great and the sets looked very grimy. Everything was shot in a way we could see the action. It was well done.
The music is a little loud but does its job well.
Score: 1
Fun
I was less invested in him and more invested in the kid and the kidnapped woman. I found myself getting bored at times. I watched this alone and although the action was great it just wasn’t all that interesting.
Score: 0
Overall
An extremely competent action movie with lots of death, explosions, and Jason Statham kicking ass. However, it wasn’t great at keeping my interest and the villains were so bland I didn’t care.
Final Score: 2 Stars out of 5