1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:06,640 Speaker 1: Great per flick with billow Sha, Hello, Hello, where do 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:10,280 Speaker 1: we stand on Jason Stathan. Oh, he's a bit of fun. 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:13,680 Speaker 1: He's a bit of fun. And for people who might 4 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: not know this, back in the day, he was a 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:20,600 Speaker 1: competitive diver the for the British Commonwealth Games team. Yeah, 6 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,479 Speaker 1: like like ten meter platform diving diving. So and he 7 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:26,920 Speaker 1: so he was always he was a dude, an elite 8 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: athlete whom be very very disciplined, vomiting and yet exactly 9 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 1: so you know, those divers like rippled muscles, it's not 10 00:00:33,760 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 1: a shred of fat on them. And so then so 11 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:38,960 Speaker 1: he has brought that same sort of work ethic and 12 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: level of discipline to his movie making and he's been prolific. 13 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 1: He's he's made some twenty seven movies in the last 14 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: ten years or something like that, which is just incredible 15 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,840 Speaker 1: output in terms of the quality of those movies. Obviously 16 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: that's a different story. You know, like people will remember 17 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,560 Speaker 1: him from lock Stock and Two Smoking Garrels and Snatch. 18 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:00,920 Speaker 1: That was probably the high point of his career, those 19 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,880 Speaker 1: films with Guy Ritchie and everything. Since then, when he's 20 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 1: just been an action star, there hasn't really been much 21 00:01:07,319 --> 00:01:09,400 Speaker 1: to a lot of those movies. He's been a transporter, 22 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: he's been a mechanic, he's been a bee key bart 23 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,400 Speaker 1: and now you know that was probably one of his 24 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:17,400 Speaker 1: one of his better movies in the last ten years. 25 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:19,280 Speaker 1: Can maybe get onto that later. But so in this 26 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: latest movie, a working man, he's a working man gets 27 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:31,280 Speaker 1: into fights hashtag relatable and so he could be said 28 00:01:31,319 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: in Pertho this movie, he gets on the beers on 29 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,160 Speaker 1: a Friday night, but that's not what he's like. He's 30 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:42,479 Speaker 1: a former Royal Marines commando. He's always a backstory who's 31 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:46,000 Speaker 1: living in America. He's trying to, you know, hold down 32 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: a steady job on a construction site so he can 33 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 1: get a bit of money behind him so he can 34 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: get better visitation rights for his daughter. Here's always the daughter. 35 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:58,960 Speaker 1: The daddy daughter storyline works so well because the tough 36 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: guy little girl. It shows the vulnerability, you know, you 37 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: have to have it like it's either that or a 38 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: dog like John Wick had a puppy, right, but a 39 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: puppy won't put your hair in pictisay, it doesn't. Based 40 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: on based on a book series about this about this 41 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:21,400 Speaker 1: character Levin Cade, who is you know, this former Special 42 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: Forces soldier a very similar thing. Yeah, yeah, eleven leven 43 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,760 Speaker 1: stranger and so and so. He works on this construction 44 00:02:29,919 --> 00:02:36,040 Speaker 1: site working for a family of Latin American migrants. The 45 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:39,520 Speaker 1: father of the family played by Michael Penya, who's fantastic, 46 00:02:39,919 --> 00:02:42,520 Speaker 1: and they love him. They know that he's got some 47 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:44,919 Speaker 1: sort of backstories, a bit mysterious, but they don't ask 48 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 1: any questions. They're just happy that he's there working hard 49 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:50,320 Speaker 1: for them, doing a good job. And then one day 50 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: the daughter of this family gets abducted and they and 51 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,880 Speaker 1: they come to Jason Statham's characters as please, mate, like, 52 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,280 Speaker 1: we know, you know back in the day, you maybe 53 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: did some some dodgy stuff. He did some questionable stuff. 54 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,960 Speaker 1: We know you've got a backstory. Can you use that 55 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:07,639 Speaker 1: past to try and help us find our daughter? And 56 00:03:07,680 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 1: he's like, no, no, I can't. Like those days are 57 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: behind me. I'm just trying to stay on the straight. 58 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: I can keep it so I can keep seeing my daughter. 59 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: You know, her stepdad wants to take her away from me, 60 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff, but they eventually convince him 61 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:22,200 Speaker 1: just have a bit of a look. Haven't been able 62 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,679 Speaker 1: to look into it. It's John Rambo. They can't help you, 63 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 1: that's right, And he doesn't want to. He's very reluctant. 64 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,200 Speaker 1: But he finds out that the Russian mafia are behind it, 65 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 1: and maybe this daughter, who's you know, sort of a 66 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,040 Speaker 1: sort of late teens and who he always got on 67 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 1: really well with, is going to be sold into sex 68 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: trafficking horrible, horrible stuff, right, and so and he starts 69 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,240 Speaker 1: to think. She looks at his own daughter and what 70 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,920 Speaker 1: if this happened to her? And he goes he agrees, 71 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna have 72 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 1: a little bit of an investigation, okay, And then maybe 73 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 1: he wouldn't have gotten sucked all the way back into 74 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:00,120 Speaker 1: a life of violence. Except the Russian mafia make the 75 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: the classic mistake. They go after his family, They go 76 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:08,119 Speaker 1: after Jason Statham's daughter, and then and then you know, 77 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: there's there's multiple cans of whoop ass opened. And the 78 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:13,520 Speaker 1: way these the way these films always work, right, is 79 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,680 Speaker 1: the reluctant hero he gets he gets kind of slowly 80 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,040 Speaker 1: pulled back into this world that he doesn't really want 81 00:04:20,080 --> 00:04:21,760 Speaker 1: to be a part of anymore. But then when they 82 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: you know, they push his buttons, they give him no 83 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 1: option and then the righteous fury, the righteous fury happens, yeah, exactly. 84 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:31,640 Speaker 1: And then and so then that that's actually quite fun, 85 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: you know, like there's something about that Hollywood trope of 86 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 1: the of the righteous man getting vengeance on bad guys. 87 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 1: It's very very complet dismember exactly. And then all of 88 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 1: a sudden, it doesn't matter how violent it gets at 89 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:47,880 Speaker 1: that point, because especially when you're talking about so one 90 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:51,719 Speaker 1: Russian mafia, bad dudes, sex trafficking terrible of course. And 91 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:54,479 Speaker 1: then and they're kind of went after John Wick's dog. 92 00:04:54,560 --> 00:04:59,840 Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing. Once once the scriptwriter justifies them, 93 00:05:00,839 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: it's like game one, game on. And so because he's 94 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:06,560 Speaker 1: a trade he's got a sledgehammer, he's got a nail gun, 95 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:08,640 Speaker 1: he's got all sorts of stuff. So many of those 96 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: movies Lison and those, Jason Statham really is sort of 97 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 1: a younger elevated Liam because like, now, poor old Liam, 98 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: he's getting on a bit, like he's in his sixties, 99 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:22,000 Speaker 1: maybe he's in his seventies, right, he can't do what 100 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 1: he used to right now, yeah, yeah, yeah, take them both. Yeah. Well, 101 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: at the second point, you start to question how good 102 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 1: he is as a father. If they keep getting taken. No, 103 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,360 Speaker 1: you know that's not the case. So you get to 104 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: see him kick butt and really very few actors do 105 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,120 Speaker 1: it better than Jason Statham. He does a lot of 106 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 1: his own stunts. He certainly does all of his own 107 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:45,400 Speaker 1: fight scenes, and some of the fight scenes in this 108 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 1: film are amazing. Directed by David Air, who did who 109 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: did The Beekeeper, which was a huge, huge hit. No 110 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 1: one thought it was going to be any good. It 111 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,720 Speaker 1: was actually really entertaining, and they're going to make more 112 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: Beekeeper movies. And so the action in this film is 113 00:05:59,480 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaker 1: really pretty good. The storyline, you know, you've seen it 114 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 1: a million times. You don't go see these movies for 115 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: the storyline. You go see them for Jason Statham to 116 00:06:07,880 --> 00:06:10,159 Speaker 1: beat up bad guys, and he certainly does that a lot. 117 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: All right, Well, how many triple flips with a pike 118 00:06:13,560 --> 00:06:21,880 Speaker 1: or whatever. I'm going to give this three solid popcorn movies.