Jason Statham's Hot New Action Flick Has a Surprising Rotten Tomatoes Score
Ahead of his return to play the titular role in The Beekeeper 2, Jason Statham is keeping his best-loved action formula going with the just-released film A Working Man. Is his character, Levon, just a regular Joe working at a construction site, or is he secretly a badass who can take anyone down at the drop of a hat? We all know the answer!
A Working Man hit theaters this past weekend, and in doing so, took in $15.2 million at the box office. That put it ahead of Disney's troubled Snow White remake, which took in $14.2 million in its second week. But is the movie any good? Is it on the same level as The Beekeeper?
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Despite the fact that A Working Man was written by Rocky legend Sylvester Stallone, the film currently holds a 51 percent rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Critic Sara Michelle Fetters called the action flick "a sleazy waste of time," while Simon Foster wrote "it plays like a hollow ‘80s action trope pastiche."
That said, general audiences are loving the movie, and the box office success isn't the only proof. In terms of the audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, A Working Man is sitting comfortably with an 89 percent score. Now, the critical score for The Beekeeper is a little higher on RT, with 71 percent. But again, that audience score is much higher, at 92 percent.
So one person's sleazy trope pastiche is another moviegoer's comfort-watch. Statham, Stallone, and director David Ayer aren't trying to reinvent the wheel here. And maybe, that's exactly the point.