If there’s anything truly surprising about David Ayer’s A Working Man, it’s that his latest B-action flick isn’t coming out in a week. After ditching the confines of the superhero-adjacent studio system, Ayer returned to multiplexes last January with The Beekeeper, a shockingly fun Jason Statham vehicle that featured the main character going on a rampage throughout Eastern Massachusetts before going on to take down the President’s shithead kid.
Given that Beekeeper made some decent dough, it seemed a sequel (or something) would be around the corner for the pair, and this is what we’d call a “spiritual” sequel. Based on longtime Batman writer Chuck Dixon’s novel Levon’s Trade, Ayer co-wrote the script with Sylvester Stallone, which makes a shocking amount of sense when you see exactly how much ass Statham’s kicking in this trailer that Amazon/MGM dropped earlier on Thursday.
We’re perpetually down for any and all Statham pictures — the guy is settling in nicely to his niche as the latter-day Charles Bronson (with a bit more cockney sturdiness) — and Stallone’s involvement means that A Working Man will likely be goofy as fuck, so consider us day-one ticket buyers.
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Here’s a synopsis:
“Levon Cade (Statham) left his “profession” behind to live a simple life working construction and spending time with his daughter. But when his boss’s teenage daughter vanishes, he’s called upon to re-employ the skills that made him a legendary figure in the shadowy world of black ops. Levon’s hunt for the missing college student takes him to the heart of a sinister criminal conspiracy creating a chain reaction that will threaten his new way of life.“
A Working Man clocks into your local multiplex on March 28, just two weeks before Tax Day. Well, unless you file quarterly taxes, and then your life sucks four times a year instead of just one hellish day.