The movie running at almost 2h is a drag, it lumbers on and on. Basically Statham is trying to save a girl from gangsters but for an unknown reason he’s not in a hurry, he doesn’t even know if the girl is alive but that doesn’t seem to bother him at all.
The screenplay is written by Stallone and you can tell : when a bad guy explains that he selects girls in bars and then customers can take their pick, Statham replies with “like shopping for winter tyres” … uhm what ? That’s what I call classic Sylvester Stallone screenplay. The action in itself is ok and Ayer knows what he’s doing but the story is just slooooow and boring. Also, they cast David Harbour in a weird non-important-to-the-story-at-all role, he has no impact and you can hardly recognize him. Why David why ? Statham is British but plays an ex-military guy, at some point he says he was in the UK Special Forces but David Harbour is obviously American so how they know each other I still haven’t figured out.
My guess is that Sylvester Stallone, as producer and screenwriter, called too many shots and basically ruined the movie. If Beekeeper taught us anything it’s that less story + crazy 90’s action + true heroes = winning combination. A Working Man unfortunately isn’t that combination.
