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A Working Man

A Working Man (2025)

IMDb

Rating: C+

This is yet another $JASON_STATHAM_MOVIE. He’s in construction now and a beloved foreman and leader of people (of course).

And they still won’t leave him alone.

Scene from Godfather III with Al Pacino saying Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in

What’s different this time: There’s this whole John Wick-style Russian criminal brotherhood involved here. I really didn’t give a shit about this setup or any character, with the exception of Andrej Kaminsky as uberboss Symon Kharchenko. He speaks softly, moves slowly, and there’s this Anton Chigur-like menace to him1.

It was needlessly long too. I’ll just wait for the next one 🙏 My bet on which sweaty and grimy blue-collar job it’ll be is Welder. A close second is Logger, and in some really, really remote place where he can use his jungle combat and tracker (and trap-setting) skills 🔥

  1. Here’s him talking about how to deal with bullies (assuming some other character).↩︎