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Proving decisively that social media chatter and hyperbolic headlines don’t define a film’s popularity, The Amateur made a strong push towards the $100 million milestone at the worldwide box office after just three weeks of release in theaters worldwide. Would anybody have expected it to do this well? It’s common for films designed for home video consumption to be given theatrical runs these days, even if they’re for publicity reasons. Just look at Den of Thieves 2: Pantera and The Accountant 2. Remarkably, The Amateur has grossed more globally than either of those films, despite appearing exactly like the kind of dad movie that will find an even bigger audience on PVOD.

In fact, its success serves as a curious counterpoint to Steven Soderbergh’s recent complaints about the underperformance of his film Black Bag, which couldn’t crack the $40 million mark worldwide despite unanimous praise and a...

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A Working Man is an action thriller film directed by David Ayer, who also co-wrote the film with Sylvester Stallone. Based on the 2014 novel Levon’s Trade by Chuck Dixon, the 2025 film follows Levon Cade, an ex-Royal Marine Commando working as a construction worker for his friend, Joe Garcia. When Joe’s teenage daughter is kidnapped by criminals, Levon takes it upon himself to rescue her, but ends up finding a dark web of corruption and crime. A Working Man stars Jason Statham, Jason Flemyng, David Harbour, Michael Peña, Merab Ninidze, Cokey Falkow, and Maximilian Osinski. So, if you loved the thrilling action, cheesy drama, and entertaining characters in A Working Man, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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The Beekeeper is an action thriller film directed...

Living next door to an action-movie star sounds glamorous until a helicopter drops onto the paddock behind your garden wall. Residents living near the home of British hard-nut action hero Jason Statham have been made to feel they were in the middle of one of his blockbuster movies recently, and it seems they have had enough of it.

According to a report in The Sun – naturally - Statham and his glamorous partner, model, designer, and former Transformers star, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, have been taking an unusual mode of transport recently – a twin-engine helicopter. You know, the kind of thing that is usually seen airlifting bad guys off skyscrapers and then being blown up by the hero in every action movie worth its salt. However, when one lands in the middle of a sports field next to a riding school, disturbs the peace and frightens the horses, then it is just not on,...

"She's not who I thought she was...! She's a total badass secret agent." Magenta Light Studios (a brand new distributor in town) has revealed the first official trailer for Bride Hard, a totally ridiculous action comedy arriving in theaters nationwide in June this summer movie season. A very cheesy concept mashup - take a spy comedy and wrap up with a wedding comedy about a maid of honor who also happens to be an assassin, and here we go. Also looks similar to JLo's Shotgun Wedding last year. It's directed by action movie veteran Simon West. This summer – you are invited to one unforgettable wedding. "Grab your bride or die." When a mercenary group takes a lavish wedding hostage, they have no idea what they are in for as the Maid of Honor is actually a secret agent ready to rain hell-fire upon anyone who dares to ruin her best friend's wedding.

When you think of Jason Statham, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? If it’s a fit bald dude beating the shit out of a nameless goon, good. That means we’re on the same page. Range is not Jason Statham’s forte, nor would we expect his characters to be able to spell “forte”. But the man has marked himself as maybe The action star in modern movies. And that’s good enough for us and his millions of fans. As Frank Martin said in The Transporter: Never change the deal.

Jason Statham was born on July 26th, 1967 in Shirebrook, England. A natural and gifted athlete, Statham was competing in everything from football to diving (he would later be inducted into the International Sports Hall of Fame). Then came modelling because, well, look at that jawline!

But it was the screen he was destined for.

A Working Man made its debut on digital platforms at the end of last week, but that hasn’t stopped the film from continuing to earn at the box office. Jason Statham’s latest action vehicle now sits at $36 million at the domestic box office and $51 million internationally for a worldwide cumulative total of $87 million. While this is still significantly less than The Beekeeper, the latest action movie collaboration between Statham and director David Ayer, it is enough to make it one of Statham’s 20 highest-grossing movies ever. Despite mixed reactions from fans and critics — 49% score from critics and 87% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes — A Working Man has passed Snatch, which also stars Brad Pitt, to reach Statham’s top 20 list.

If A Working Man can scrounge together another $2 million at the global box office, it will move past Transporter 2 to become the 19th-highest-grossing Jason Statham movie of all time,...

Indie games never really stop evolving, and the upcoming Detective Dotson seems to be nothing but the next step for the Indian indie gaming scene. Created meticulously by Masala Games, the main brain behind the studio, Shalin Shodhan, calls the game a “love letter to India.“

The game is scheduled to release officially on April 24th, 2025, on PC and Steam Deck for $20 (or Inr 500 for Indian gamers) with a 10% launch discount, making it no better time than now to fire up your Steam right now.

Detective Dotson’s graphics and art style: When 2D meets 3D goes right

Those who have tested out the free-to-play demo of the upcoming game would easily know that it has some of the best art styles we’ve seen in recent times. Shalin, head of Masala Games, reveals in my conversation with him at the Indie Game Utsav held alongside Mumbai Comic Con 2025 how...

Actor Jason Statham and Hollywood mainstay Sylvester Stallone have collaborated on six feature films together. They starred opposite each other in four "Expendables" movies (with Statham taking the lead over Stallone for the abysmal "Expend4bles"), and Statham starred in the Stallone-scripted "Homefront" in 2013. Most recently, Stallone wrote the script for the 2025 David Ayer-directed Statham vehicle "A Working Man." The pair, one can infer, know each other's work very well. 

Statham, 57, has long been one of cinema's most reliable badasses, often playing cops, mercenaries, assassins, killer, or other ultra-capable dolers of violence. He has done a lot of his own stunts, and he ran down his injuries in a 2023 interview with Collider. He did a real helicopter stunt for the movie "Crank," which he said was quite difficult, and he recalled having to actually jump from a moving jetski onto the back of a speeding bus in "Transporter 2." Surprisingly,...

Of all the free streaming services with two-syllable nonsense names, Tubi is emerging as the most popular. The platform, which is owned by the Fox Corporation, has the most monthly active users of any ad-supported streaming platform, with 97 million. It's also a goldmine of beloved TV shows from decades ago. You can watch everything from "Gilligan's Island" to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" on Tubi, and the ad breaks are mercifully few and far between. Tubi also has some great horror movies, which altogether makes the platform a somewhat attractive proposition.

Much like the paid streamers, Tubi also tracks trending entertainment, and it seems Jason Statham is the latest star to see one of his movies rise up the rankings on the free streamer. But he hasn't done it alone. The British action star has had a bit of help from Jennifer Lopez, with the pair's 2013 action thriller, "Parker," managing to...

Jason Statham will always be known as one of the most iconic action actors of all time, but there have been some movies over the years that allowed him to flex his comedy muscles. One of those films is Spy, the 2015 slapstick comedy in which Statham stars alongside Jude Law and Melissa McCarthy. Spy also happens to be Statham’s highest-rated movie of his career, according to Rotten Tomatoes, with a 95% from critics on the aggregate site. Now that Spy is 10 years old, a blooper reel from behind the scenes of the film has resurfaced and gone viral online, showing Statham and his co-stars unable to keep it together while reading some of the film’s ridiculously hilarious dialogue. The full reel can be found below, with Statham’s first clip starting around the 2:00 mark.

Statham has always had something of a stoic demeanor — it’s part of why...

Few Hollywood movie stars have had an illustrious and celebrated career quite like Jason Statham, with the beloved action hero starring in a slew of silver-screen knockouts over his more than two decades in show business. From thrilling flicks like Crank, The Mechanic, and Wrath of Man to fan-favorite franchises such as Transporter, The Expendables, and Fast & Furious, Statham has made a respected name for himself as one of the cinema's most fearless and commanding performers.

For the 2025 action thriller A Working Man, Statham reunited with both director David Ayer (The Beekeeper) and his Expendables co-star Sylvester Stallone to help bring the popular Chuck Dixon novel Levon's Trade to life, with the gripping film following an ex-Royal Marines commando as he attempts to live a quiet existence with his daughter only to be pulled back into his former life when a teenager is kidnapped by human traffickers. Naturally, bodies...

Some cinephiles experience movies in such a way that they refuse to accept that certain films can be made with the simple goal of entertaining their target audience, vehemently arguing that every single flick must leave an unbelievably memorable impact on viewers. Personally, I believe the seventh art has room for all kinds of stories, so I find this way of thinking and watching cinema rather restrictive and quite selfish. This preface serves to justify the moderate, superficial expectations for A Working Man, directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad), co-written by Ayer himself and Sylvester Stallone (Creed II), and starring Jason Statham (The Beekeeper).

Levon Cade (Statham) left behind a decorated military career in covert operations to live a simple life in construction. But when his boss’ daughter is taken by human traffickers, his quest to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he could have ever imagined.

A Working Man may be the Jason Statham-iest film ever to Stath. With its man-on-a-mission, hunt-for-a-kidnapped-girl narrative, it borrows wholeheartedly from the likes of Commando and Taken, and effectively steals from John Wick in the “weapons sommelier” played by David Harbour. But this is first and foremost a Jason Statham film, boiled down to its essential ingredients — losing all flavour and substance in the process.

Statham ostensibly plays a character called Levon Cade, but in a very real, more accurate sense, he plays a character called ‘Jason Statham’: a tough guy with a mysterious military past and an unplaceable Essex-by-way-of-Beverly-Hills accent who dispatches a succession of forgettable goons in order to save the day. It is exactly the same type found in all his recent roles, often in films with similar job-title titles: The Mechanic, The Transporter, The Beekeeper.

The last — which featured the appalling line, “To bee or not to bee!

Jason Statham is one of the most bankable action stars when it comes to making repeated appearances on free streaming charts with his older movies. Despite many of these movies being panned by critics, being originally released over a decade ago, and appearing on multiple streaming platforms simultaneously, it is hard not to stumble across one of them when looking at lists of what people are watching. Statham’s brand of loud, brash, and brutal action movie has found a perfect home on free streaming charts, with movies like The Mechanic, Parker, and many others appearing time and time again. Now, the 2012 movie Safe is once again beating up the competition on Freevee.

While audiences usually cannot get enough of the British actor, critics have always been a little more skeptical about the films he leads. Safe is one of the rare occasions that audiences and critics were completely unanimous...

Amazon Prime Video has a wide selection of outstanding movies designed to keep viewers on the edge of their seats when looking for a good thriller. These films range from dramatic to suspenseful, with plenty of action and others focusing more on a creeping sense of dread and intrigue. The selection is undoubtedly large, with some thrillers available through Prime's optional premium channels.

However, there are also plenty of great thriller movies that viewers can stream with an Amazon Prime subscription, either with or without ads. Ranging from recent movies to ones still gripping decades after release, viewers will love heart-pounding epics like Oppenheimer and sci-fi horror thrillers like A Quiet Place: Day One.

Updated on March 13, 2025, by Michael Colwander: Amazon Prime Video continually adds fantastic films to its streaming service. There are plenty of award-winning movies on Prime Video, including must-see thrillers. This list is updated to include more...

Jason Stathamis a safe pair of fast hands when it comes to delivering the action, and audiences have been rediscovering one of his most underrated movies thanks to free streaming. Best known for the likes of the Fast and Furious franchise, The Expendables, The Mechanic, and The Beekeeper (which is now getting a sequel), many Statham fans slept on the 2012 outing Safe. Thankfully, that’s all changed, with the movie now entering the streaming charts.

Directed by Boaz Yakin, who is best known for helming Remember the Titans and writing the likes of Now You See Me and The Harder They Fall, Safe finds The Stath fighting one of his hardest battles as he faces off with the Russian mafia, the Chinese Triads, and a group of corrupt NYPD officers all at once. Safe is now ranked #8 on Freevee in the U.S., and you can check out the official...

Waltz and Lucy Liu lead this tale of an assassin grudgingly mentoring a younger up-and-comer, but their strong turns can’t fire up the ho-hum story

Action legend Simon West has put together a pretty moderate comedy-thriller with screenwriter Greg Johnson; the collective star power in its (undoubtedly) impressive cast isn’t quite strong enough to make it come alive. It is set in Belfast and Northern Ireland — perhaps because of production funding requirements. There is a slightly weird moment in which Lucy Liu’s character, speaking from a bar in London’s Soho, says wistfully of Belfast: “I’ve always wanted to go there … it’s got a great music scene.” Perfectly true, of course, but there is something rather autopilot about the way she delivers the line.

Christoph Waltz plays an ageing and dissolute hitman called Danny Dolinski whose trigger finger is seizing up with arthritis, so his...

Ranking any performer's filmography comes with the need for at least some clarification, and that's especially true when it comes to action stars. Are they being ranked on the performance, the amazing action they deliver, or on the quality of the film as a whole? Are all films eligible or just the ones where the performer has a lead role? Does more action automatically land a film higher on the list? Does the person doing the ranking have impeccable taste when it comes to action cinema?

Below you'll find a ranking of Jason Statham movies, and here are the answers to those questions above. The films are ranked on their overall value as action films. We're focusing on Statham's lead roles -- otherwise "Spy" would dominate the top spot (and "The Way of the Dragon" would have made our ranked list of the best Chuck Norris films) -- whether as...

The action comedy Old Guy is an interesting take on two genres that audiences have grown accustomed to over the decades. The movie follows aging assassin Danny Dolinski (played by Christoph Waltz) as he's forced to train a much younger replacement, Wilhborg (Cooper Hoffman). Alongside Wihlborg and his close friend Anata (Lucy Liu), Danny learns about more important things in life and the film reveals itself to be heartwarming as well as funny.

Old Guy director Simon West and Kill Bill alum Liu spoke to Cbr about the film. They discussed how it's not strictly a movie about a hitman, and some of the challenges that came with making something that crosses multiple genres. Plus, they reflected on Anata's character and a potential future for the characters.

Cbr: Lucy, you're no stranger to action-oriented roles, most notably in the Kill Bill and Charlie's Angels franchises. Old Guy blends action with romance,...

The Beekeeper star Jason Statham continues to fly the flag for wonderfully no-nonsense action movie fare, and his next movie, the Jean-François Richet directed Mutiny, has now been given a release date. Sadly, it’s going to be a little while before we catch The Stath’s next violent vendetta.

As per a report by Deadline, Mutiny will land in theaters next year on January 9, 2026, with Lionsgate putting Statham’s latest action thriller up against Universal’s M3GAN spin-off Soulm8te, which releases the week before on January 2. Other than that, the path is clear for Mutiny to make a killing at the box office on its opening weekend.

Mutiny sees Statham in the role as both star and producer as he joins forces with the director behind 2023’s Gerard Butler-led Plane, Jean-François Richet, with the action outing finding The Mechanic star on the run while uncovering a major global conspiracy.

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The following contains spoilers for Old Guy, debuting in select theaters and on digital Feb. 21, 2025.

There's an inherent charm to action movies that makes even a premise done dozens of times stand out. Die Hard and The Raid both follow one police officer trapped in a location with numerous enemies. However, the former is far more charismatic. The same could be said for the hitman subgenre and Old Guy. The movie stars Christoph Waltz as the aging killer Danny Dolinski, who trains a skilled but reckless protegé named Whilborg (Cooper Hoffman). Working alongside his friend Anata (Lucy Liu), Danny finds there's more to life than killing, but not before fighting for his life.

Old Guy has a lot of classic hitman action coursing through its veins,...

For over two sensational decades, beloved Hollywood leading man and bona fide action superstar Jason Statham has been thrilling moviegoers all across the world with his dazzling physical prowess and undeniable charm. In 2013, he continued his silver screen takeover when he starred in the taut action film Homefront, in which he appears as a retired DEA agent who moves to a remote Louisiana town with his young daughter to start a new life, only to have his checkered past catch up with him and cause more trouble.

With a stellar cast of fellow cinema greats including James Franco, Winona Ryder, and Frank Grillo, the criminally-underrated thriller performed solidly at the box office but nonetheless failed to achieve the recognition (or Rotten Tomatoes score) it rightfully deserved. Statham unsurprisingly shined in the role of the devoted father and former DEA agent, who faces threats both old and new as he attempts...

Jason Statham has done a violent dance movie villains on land, sea, and occasionally even in the air, but in Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, he relies a little more on some witty banter than straight-up bruiser tactics to deal with his adversaries. The British tough guy leads Guy Ritchie’s action caper, which sees him teaming up with Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Josh Hartnett, and a movie-stealing Hugh Grant in full Trump-tan, and pulls out a performance that audiences loved when the film was originally released in 2023.

The film operates in familiar territory for anyone who has followed Statham’s roles in his spy-orientated mode. This time around, he stars as Orson Fortune, a covert operative whose skill set and deadpan snark make comparisons to a certain British super spy inevitable, even if he likes to get a little more down and dirty than any 007 ever did. However, while Bond movies play things straight,...

It's hard to imagine cinema superstar Jason Statham appearing in a movie that doesn't involve explosive action sequences and a heaping dose of blood and bullets, but in 2005 the illustrious actor decided to switch things up a bit and venture into the world of romance with the drama London. Statham starred alongside Chris Evans and Jessica Biel in the little-known 2000s flick, which focuses on a man struggling to get over a bad breakup who relies on drugs and booze to get over his broken heart, only to try and win back his former flame when he discovers she's moving across the country with her new boyfriend.

Statham portrays a banker and drug-dealer who befriends Evans' lovelorn character, with the duo engaging in a wild night of debauchery and soul-searching throughout the course of the romantic drama. London failed to make a splash with critics and at the box office,...

Max subscribers have been enjoying a 2016 action sequel starring Jason Statham. Mechanic: Resurrection, the nine-year-old sequel to 2011's The Mechanic, has cracked Max's Top 10 list this week.

According to FlixPatrol, two weeks after being added to Max, Mechanic: Resurrection came in at #7 on the streamer's Top 10 list. Released in 2016, Resurrection sees Statham back in the role of Arthur Bishop, who had foolishly thought he had been able to put his murderous past behind him. However, when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life, he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.

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Much like the action movie icon Jason Statham himself, his panned 2016 sequel refuses to die on streaming. The Stath has become well-renowned for flying the flag for old school action fare, with the actor and martial artist demonstrating his particular set of skills in his return as Arthur Bishop in 2016’s Mechanic: Resurrection, which has now found success on its new streaming home.

Following on from the first The Mechanic, a remake of the 1972 film of the same name starring Charles Bronson, Mechanic: Resurrection finds Statham doing what he does best after his attempt at a quiet life is thrown into chaos when a figure from his past returns. Directed by Dennis Gansel and written by Philip Shelby and Tony Mosher, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Jessica Alba and Michelle Yeoh alongside The Stath, Mechanic: Resurrection is now #7 in the top 10 on Max (formerly HBO Max). You can check out...

It is several months since one of Jason Statham's most underrated action movies landed on free streaming, and now it is heading back up the Tubi chart yet again. Statham’s brand of loud, brash, and brutal action movie has found a perfect home on free streaming charts with movies like The Mechanic, Parker, and many others appearing time and time again. Now it is the turn of 2012 movie Safe to kick its way into the Tubi Top 10.

Statham has stuck his battered and bruised fingers in many pies in the last decade, from franchises like The Expendables and Fast & Furious, to his own vehicles such as The Beekeeper and his upcoming A Working Man. While audiences usually cannot get enough of the British actor, critics have always been a little more skeptical about the films he leads. Safe is one of the rare occasions that audiences and...

As strange as it is, moviegoers are fascinated by the assassin. Paid handsomely for their skills of stealth, marksmanship, martial arts, and general wanton violence, these contract killers have been the focus of some of the most thrilling and emotionally provocative films ever made.

Maybe it's because many of these hit-people share many viewers' relationship to their own work -- a disdain for the spiritually emptying but financially necessary professions that command much of their life. Maybe it's because a criminal mastermind of this nature -- so devoid of humanity that they reduce human lives to zeros in a bank account -- reveals more about the world around them than any other character type.

Or maybe it's because we just like watching people fight with guns and swords. In any case, we've put together our own hit-list of flicks featuring them, ranked based on their quality, legacy, and depiction of these captivating killers.

February will bring several new additions to Max's streaming library, including a Jason Statham-led action movie sequel. Perhaps frustratingly, its predecessor will not be joining it.

On Feb. 1, 2016's Mechanic: Resurrection will be hitting Max. Directed by Dennis Gansel, the film is a sequel to the 2011 movie The Mechanic, which was itself a remake of Charle Bronson's 1972 actioner of the same name. Mechanic: Resurrection was a box office success, earning over $125 million worldwide – a sizable improvement over the first movie's haul of $76 million. For some fans of Statham, however, the movies are still best enjoyed together, so Max subscribers looking to first watch 2011's The Mechanic won't be able to do so on the same streaming platform in February.

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With a 25-year career on his shoulders, director Simon West seems to have a knack for helming remakes. He first set out to bring 1979’s When A Stranger Calls to a present-day audience in 2006. Seeing the decent success that it had at the box office, he then aimed to adapt an even more prestigious title from the '70s, Charles Bronson’s The Mechanic. Actor (and all-around tough guy) Jason Statham was announced to be in the lead role soon after the project was initially developed. The film was praised by critics and welcomed by audiences as well when it was released in January 2011.

Seeing how West was on a roll with reboots, he saw it fitting to continue digging deeper into this filmmaking niche. Could he pull off three successful remakes, though? When it came to his modern take on a 1986 neo-noir thriller, Heat (based on a novel of...

Jason Statham fans, and particularly those of his appearances in the Fast & Furious franchise will have something to celebrate this February as several of his Fast movies will arrive on Peacock on February 15. Along with the Statham-less Fast Five, Fast & Furious 6 – which features the first brief appearance of Deckard Shaw in the saga – Furious 7, and Fast & Furious Presents Hobbs & Shaw, the spinoff that brought together Statham with Dwayne Johnson in their own story.

Fast & Furious 6 sees Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto and Paul Walker’s Brian O’Conner and their crew being given the chance to have their crimes wiped from the record by Johnson’s Luke Hobbs, if they help bring down an organized mercenary group led by Owen Shaw. After the events of the film play out, Statham makes his first appearance as Owen’s older brother Deckard Shaw in a post-credits...

Jason Statham is a man who knows how to please a crowd, and even if his movies are hammered into the ground by critics, he can manage to blast his way to a spectacular victory every time. While he found huge critical and commercial success with 2024’s collaboration with director David Ayer on The Beekeeper, back in 2016, Mechanic: Resurrection was buried under the weight of a 31% Tomatometer score, but now the film just refuses to lay down and die on the free streaming platform, Tubi.

Following up his 2011 hit, The Mechanic, it was a no-brainer for Statham to reprise his role as Arthur Bishop, a master assassin coerced out of retirement to carry out more increasingly impossible hits. The movie has plenty of the usual intense and over-the-top action sequences, accompanied by a simple plot, and plenty of the usual Statham swagger to boot. Along for the ride in the sequel is Jessica Alba,...

Action icon and The Beekeeper star Jason Statham is transformed into a video game icon in this concept trailer for a potential Hitman adaptation. Taking footage from Statham’s previous movies, the much-maligned Hitman movies that have already been made, and using a touch of AI (shudder), the footage (via Screen Trailers) demonstrates what a movie led by The Stath as Agent 47 could look like. And no doubt fans of The Mechanic star will be hoping it becomes reality.

The Hitman video games, which follow the mysterious assassin Agent 47 as he travels the world taking out targets assigned to him by the even more mysterious International Contract Agency (Ica), has already been adapted for the big screen twice before. But neither has really satisfied fans of the game, action fans, or, well, anyone, really.

Released in 2007, director Xavier Gens’ Hitman stars Deadwood and Justified actor Timothy Olyphant as Agent...

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For over 25 years, Jason Statham has dominated the silver screen and established himself as one of Hollywood's most sought after leading men, kicking butt and taking names in a slew of fan-favorite hits like Snatch, Crank, The Mechanic, and the Transporter series (to name just a few in his ever-growing resume). Statham made his dazzling debut in Guy Ritchie's celebrated black comedy crime classic Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998 and wasted no time showcasing his jaw-dropping physical prowess and undeniable allure as a performer.

In 2012, Statham appeared as a grief-stricken former cage fighter and ex-government assassin who is given a shot at taking revenge against the mobster responsible for his wife's murder in the thriller Safe. Statham was in peak action hero form when he headlined the underrated flick, which became...

The Transporter is one of Jason Statham’s most iconic action movie franchises, but it remains unclear if he’ll ever play Frank Martin again in Transporter 5. The franchise debuted in 2002 with the release of The Transporter, which marked Statham’s first headlining role in a major action vehicle. The titular stoic mercenary-turned-driver quickly became the defining role of Statham’s career and opened the door to other opportunities in the genre. Not only did he go on to star in other action films like War, Crank, and The Mechanic; he reprised his role as Frank in two more Transporter movies.

The trilogy got bigger, bolder, and better with each movie. 2005’s Transporter 2 expanded the scope with even more bonkers action scenes and 2008’s Transporter 3 became the highest-grossing entry in the series. The Transporter franchise continued after that, with a fourth film and a TV spinoff, but Statham never played Frank again.

Jason Statham is one of the most recognizable action stars of this century, but his highest-rated film is actually a comedy. Jason Statham's filmography includes popular franchises such as Fast & Furious, The Expendables, and The Mechanic, in addition to a plethora of standalone action movies. While the actor does prioritize action films over other genres, Statham has also appeared in several comedy movies. Statham's best comedy movies include Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Mean Machine, and a 2015 film with 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Upon its release, Spy became Statham's highest-rated movie. In addition to Statham, the cast of Spy includes Melissa McCarthy, Jude Law, Rose Byrne, Miranda Hart, and Bobby Cannavale. While there are some action sequences in the film, Spy is more of a traditional comedy film that follows CIA analyst Susan Cooper as she leaves her desk and goes undercover as a spy to get revenge...

It seems that two Jean-Claude Van Dammes are worth one Jason Statham, as the Muscles from Brussels’ 1991 panned action thriller Double Impact has become the most-watched movie on Tubi this New Year, narrowly beating another resurgence for Statham’s equally panned sequel, Mechanic: Resurrection. Heading into 2025, this clearly proves that action is still the name of the game on free streaming platforms, just like it has been for several years now.

While Double Impact initially arrived on Tubi 12 days ago, the film lay low over the festive period before quickly ascending the chart as January 1 approached. Statham’s follow-up to The Mechanic has been even more impressive, as it has now been on the platform for just under a month and has found itself challenging the top of the free streamer’s chart on several occasions.

The two over-the-top action movies could still swap places in the next few days,...

The 2011 action-thriller The Mechanic, starring Jason Statham, will soon be available for streaming.

Starting Jan. 1, 2025, subscribers can dive into this gripping tale of assassination, revenge, and high-stakes action on Paramount+. Known for its intense fight scenes, creative kills, and Statham’s stoic performance, The Mechanic is a remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson classic. It has been modernized for a new generation of action fans. The film combines stylish direction with brutal, expertly choreographed action sequences. These elements have become a hallmark of Statham's career.

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Directed by Simon West, most known for Con Air, The Mechanic follows Arthur Bishop played by Statham, a professional hitman known for his precise and efficient approach to eliminating targets. After his mentor and close friend Harry (Donald Sutherland) is betrayed and killed,...

Even during the festive season, action movie icon Jason Statham continues to dominate. Thanks to roles in the likes of The Beekeeper, The Transporter, The Mechanic, and the Fast and Furious movies, Statham has proven time and again how adept he is at driving his fist into your face. But, the actor has also proven how funny he can be while doing that, with his 2015 action-comedy Spy now landing in the global Top 10 on Netflix.

Written and directed by Paul Feig, Spy stars The Stath alongside Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jude Law, Miranda Hart, and Bobby Cannavale, and follows a CIA analyst who has spent her entire career as a desk jockey suddenly being thrown into the field and going undercover to capture an arms dealer and avenge the death of the organization's best agent. Spy remains one of Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, and Paul Feig’s highest rated movies,...

As the end of 2024 approaches, Netflix are making it a sad goodbye to the year for fans of two Jason Statham action movies, as The Mechanic and Redemptionwill be dropped from the streamer on December 31 as their syndicated content shifts around for the new year. In short, get your fix now before it is too late.

The Mechanic, a remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson movie under the direction of Simon West, is a classic example of the brand of action Statham kills every time. In his first outing as near-perfect assassin Arthur Bishop, the Brit has to avenge the death of his mentor, keep himself alive, and teach his mentor’s son a few life-lessons along the way. You know, they usual. Meanwhile, Steven Knight’s directorial debut, Redemption (also known as Hummingbird), puts the actor in the role of ex-special forces soldier Joey Smith, who assumes the identity of...

Every box office bomb of 2024 must be looking at Jason Statham and wondering what they have to do to steal some of his secret sauce. As well as his new hit The Beekeeper at the beginning of 2024, one of his older movies just refuses to lay down and die on Tubi. That movie is Mechanic: Resurrection, the panned 2016 action thriller sequel to 2011’s The Mechanic, which has refused to stay out of the free streamer’s list of most-watched movies.

In Mechanic: Resurrection, Statham reprises his role as Arthur Bishop, a master assassin coerced out of retirement to carry out more increasingly impossible hits. The movie delivers a masterclass from the Statham Bible, with intense and over-the-top action sequences, joined by a generally simple plot, and a big helping of the charismatic charm of the dome-headed tough guy. Although the movie performed terribly with critics, and not much better with audiences,...

The end of the year is not something to celebrate for Jason Statham fans, as Dec. 31 may be a rather unfortunate day for fans of the action movie actor who are subscribed to Netflix.

As per Netflix, Dec. 31 will mark the last day Statham's The Mechanic and Redemption are available to stream on the platform. Both movies are considered favorites for many fans of the actor. The Mechanic, released in 2011, served as a remake of the 1972 movie starring action genre legend Charles Bronson. Statham's version earned over $76 million at the box office upon release, and despite its initial mixed reviews, the movie has come to a place where it's fondly celebrated by fans as one of the action star's underrated films. It spawned a sequel in 2016's Mechanic: Resurrection, which was a box office hit with over $125 million earned, though

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It’s a great time to be a Jason Statham fan, as the legendary action actor had a movie dominate the box office this year with The Beekeeper, and he’s also had major streaming hits such as The Mechanic and several Fast & Furious movies. There are Jason Statham action movies spread all across your favorite streaming services, but unfortunately, the two streaming on the biggest platform won’t be there for long. Netflix has officially announced that both The Mechanic and Redemption, the only two Statham movies streaming on the platform, will officially leave on December 31. It has not yet been revealed if and where The Mechanic and Redemption will head after leaving Netflix, but a streamer will likely make that information available later in the month if either is picked up.

One of Jason Stathams most underrated action films, Death Race, is coming to streaming in time for the holiday season. So fasten your seat belt and grab your helmet because this car has no protection whatsoever, and Statham doesnt usually use the brakes. The Paul W.S. Anderson action film will land on Max on December 1, according to a Warner Bros. Discovery press release.

As the star of action franchises like Fast & Furious, The Transporter, and The Mechanic, Statham's presence in any action movie usually signals that fans of the genre are in for a good time. Regardless of budgets and studio size, the man seems to deliver, and thats certainly what happened with 2008s Death Race.

In Death Race, viewers are taken to a dystopian future where crime rates are worryingly high. The prison system has been privatized, and to cleanse it, wardens organize a vehicular battle in which...

An underrated Jason Statham movie is being added to Max next month. Death Race, a remake of the 1975 film Death Race 2000, is set to debut on the streamer at the beginning of December.

Max subscribers won't need to wait long to stream Death Race as the Statham-led action thriller will be added to the streamer on Dec. 1. "Framed for a murder he did not commit, three-time speedway champ Jensen Ames (Statham) finds himself at Terminal Island, the country's toughest prison, but he gets an unexpected chance at freedom when the warden offers a choice: Compete in the Death Race as a mythical driver called 'Frankenstein,' or rot in a cell forever," reads the movie's synopsis. "Riding in a car equipped with flamethrowers and grenade launchers, Ames must survive a gauntlet of vicious criminals to win his freedom -- or die trying."

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Jason Statham is undeniably one of the silver screen's most celebrated action superstars, and since his dazzling film debut in Guy Ritchie's 1998 black crime comedy Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, he has steadily become one of the most famous faces of the adrenaline-pumping genre. Known for portraying cool, calm, and tough-as-nails characters, Statham has emerged as one of Hollywood's most bankable leading men and his exhilarating movies have grossed more than $1.5 billion while also attracting a passionate fanbase along the way.

Statham has starred in a slew of big budget extravaganzas throughout his impressive cinema career, appearing in popular flicks like the Transporter trilogy, The Mechanic, The Expendables, and the enduring Fast & Furious franchise (to name just a few). Despite being a major box office draw, the charismatic actor has also been in his fair share of critical duds (even if audiences felt differently), with respected film...

Hollywood is brimming with skillful actors who perform their own stunts, but not a lot of major A-listers are well-trained and actual fighters. We know the likes of Tom Cruise, who delivers death-defying choreography in his movies, and we know Sylvester Stallone, who has been an iconic action star since the ‘70s.

Credits: Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One / Paramount Pictures

This is not to discredit their works because they are truly one of the hallmarks of action films, but we are talking about actors who can genuinely fight in real life and have in-depth knowledge of their respective martial arts.

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We’ve seen his fight moves in action thrillers like The Mechanic and Furious 7, and they were all impressive – thanks to his expertise in Brazilian jiu-jitsu. The actor also trained in several martial arts disciplines such as karate,...

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When it comes to action films, stars like Keanu Reeves or Tom Cruise may come to mind first, but Jason Statham is arguably as well-known in the genre. Beginning with the Transporter trilogy, the actor has been renowned for his effortlessly cool-looking martial arts and has been in numerous other successful action franchises, including The Expendables, Crank, Fast & Furious, and The Mechanic.

Having said that, most people are unaware that, despite his unrivaled success in the Transporter films, Statham experienced a long, exhausting descent in his career during the early 2010s, when six of his movies flopped in succession. Nonetheless, he rose from the ashes to reestablish himself as the action king, eventually appearing in some of the most entertaining films, including Spy, Fast & Furious, and The Beekeeper. So, what...

Jason Statham still hasnt appeared in a James Bond movie and might never get to so Mechanic: Resurrection is the closest thing to a Bond film starring Statham. Although hes never been in a Bond film, Stathams career has always been tangentially linked to Bond, because hes a British action star whos been fan-casted as a very different sort of 007. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels proved he could play a gritty, Timothy Dalton-style Bond, while The Meg films have proven he could play a goofy, tongue-in-cheek, Roger Moore-style Bond.

Statham has expressed interest in making a Bond film he even said hes been WhatsApping Barbara Broccoli to try to get the opportunity to appear in the franchise but so far, nothing has come of it. Hes parodied the Bond franchise in comedies like Spy and Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, but hes never been able to put...

Jason Statham is one of the most notable action stars of this century, having starred in popular franchises such as Fast & Furious, The Expendables, and The Mechanic. However, like many iconic action stars before him, Statham has also dipped his toes into the comedy genre. Jason Statham's comedy films prove how talented the actor is across multiple genres, and showcase how great it is to see actors typically known for action roles in comedy movies.

Statham, known for his collaborations with filmmaker Guy Ritchie, has appeared in several of the director's more comedic movies, such as Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. However, Jason Statham starred in a more traditional comedy film in 2015 that showcased his comedic talents better than any of his prior work. In fact, Spy, also starring Melissa McCarthy, Jude Law, and Rose Byrne, is the highest-rated film of Jason Statham's movie career with...