A WORKING MAN Makes Short Work Of SNOW WHITE As CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD Finally Nears $200 Million

I liked Beekeeper and Machinist, so I'm gonna have to check out Working Man.

Disney are on a roll with box office flops,wonder if it will continue with The Thunderbolts.

A new Jason Statham movie I didn't knew about is making short order of the competition, and he didn't even bother coming up with a profession for his action man in disguise? Wild

A working man started interesting - a father whose wife died due to him being away at war has to deal with keeping his emotions in check, he runs the construction site like a war zone and is loyal to his co-workers and boss - then none of that ends up reprising. He goes on a mission to save the boss's daughter after she is trafficked.

The film became fully disjointed during the middle act when he has to track down some drug trafficking group to find someone called Demetri who can tell him where the girl is. There's a lot of pointless bloat to the movie, could have easily cut: everyone at the bar, the goofy sons, the two random gun goons, the entire subplot involving Demetri and the Russian Mafia aspect added little.

There's definitely an element of modern day politics to it:
• Guy abuses his wife, despite his wife being complicit in the actions our hero murders him and spares the wife allowing the wife to inherit his empire and continue his villainous actions.
• Main villain is a stereotypical fat capitalist who just wants to abuse young women.
• Only police in the movie are stated as being incompetent, not doing their jobs or paid off by the villains
• Every female is spared by our hero despite being complicit in abductions, rape, murders, drug dealing and other elicit dealings
• Main female antagonist is killed by a female because we can't have a male character kill a female in our action movies anymore
• Female hostage is more competent that main hero escaping multiple times and killing female antagonist with her thighs, snapping her neck, despite no training at all. All she did in her life prior was study music, get drunk at clubs using fake ID and study business...

Final act became so laughably stupid - such as a bike running into a wall and the wall explodes while the bike just falls over. There's a fight set-up earlier at the bar that happens during the final act and the villain just decides to let Statham kill him rather than fight and it feels so abrupt and empty.

Also caught Novocaine, it was a let down, definitely a lot more they could have done with the premise. There's no real tension because the core focus of the film is that Novocaine cannot feel pain - so any action scene is one-sided because he can get horrific injuries and just walk them off. He's only really at threat if he's about to die, but our antagonists are cartoon characters in terms of competency. The most you get is the lack of pain being used for comedy at times or a few scenes where you get gross-out moments: Crispy hand, Nail ripping, Arrow through leg, Hand snapped.

At the end the film tries to do a 'big reveal' to our character, but he just has a panic attack and doesn't really deal with the consequences of the reveal - meanwhile we've known the reveal since about 30 minutes into the movie so it feels lackluster. It also suffers from the double third act trope, villain is seemingly killed by cops and then proceeds to result in a role reversal with the girlfriend character trying to save our helpless male character.

There's definitely an element of modern day politics to it:
• Female villain is entirely complicit in a lot of horrific stuff yet other than a year or so in jail gets the happy ending, main male antagonist points out her complicity but the film frames her as sympathetic and him as cartoonisly evil.
• Black Cop is the good cop who cares while White cop is uncaring, incompetent, played for comedy and only gets a brief moment of competency before being killed off at the end only getting a passing mention from Black Cop.
• Main character completes his tattoo's by having a drawing of a prince saving a princess from a tower, but instead it's the princess helping the prince climb up the tower.
• Black Cop at the end of the film lectures our main character on why he won't face criminal charges, specifying his race (white) as a core factor despite his race never playing into the film prior.