Working Man (2025)

WORKING MAN is based on a novel by Chuck Dixon who is one of my favorite comic writers. Dixon’s comics are engines of motion and action. The novel wa purchased by Sylvester Stallone who wrote the script as a vehicle for himself before things happened and it became a Jason Statham film helmed by David Ayer.

I wasn’t too keen on the draggy nature of the film but seeing that Stallone wrote the script its completely understandable.

The film has Statham’s working man trying to get by doing construction. A man with a military past he does not want to talk about he does what he can to help his friends and co-workers and make time for his daughter who is living with his in-laws. When the daughter of his boss goes missing (aka kidnapped) Statham is asked to find her. He declines but ends up doing so and winds up crashing into a Russian gang who doesn’t know they are doomed.

Great characters and solid action get lost in a script which drags things out. There is too much exposition.  It took forever to get going and when it did it took forever to get to the ending. This script should have been rewritten so that it wasn’t essentially a brooding Stallone film.

Did I hate it? No. Honestly I want a sequel, with the same case and crew, I just want a different writer because the script is deadly