Great per flick with billow Sha, Hello, Hello, where do we stand on Jason Stathan. Oh, he's a bit of fun. He's a bit of fun. And for people who might not know this, back in the day, he was a competitive diver the for the British Commonwealth Games team. Yeah, like like ten meter platform diving diving. So and he so he was always he was a dude, an elite athlete whom be very very disciplined, vomiting and yet exactly so you know, those divers like rippled muscles, it's not a shred of fat on them. And so then so he has brought that same sort of work ethic and level of discipline to his movie making and he's been prolific. He's he's made some twenty seven movies in the last ten years or something like that, which is just incredible output in terms of the quality of those movies. Obviously that's a different story. You know, like people will remember him from lock Stock and Two Smoking Garrels and Snatch. That was probably the high point of his career, those films with Guy Ritchie and everything. Since then, when he's just been an action star, there hasn't really been much to a lot of those movies. He's been a transporter, he's been a mechanic, he's been a bee key bart and now you know that was probably one of his one of his better movies in the last ten years. Can maybe get onto that later. But so in this latest movie, a working man, he's a working man gets into fights hashtag relatable and so he could be said in Pertho this movie, he gets on the beers on a Friday night, but that's not what he's like. He's a former Royal Marines commando. He's always a backstory who's living in America. He's trying to, you know, hold down a steady job on a construction site so he can get a bit of money behind him so he can get better visitation rights for his daughter. Here's always the daughter. The daddy daughter storyline works so well because the tough guy little girl. It shows the vulnerability, you know, you have to have it like it's either that or a dog like John Wick had a puppy, right, but a puppy won't put your hair in pictisay, it doesn't. Based on based on a book series about this about this character Levin Cade, who is you know, this former Special Forces soldier a very similar thing. Yeah, yeah, eleven leven stranger and so and so. He works on this construction site working for a family of Latin American migrants. The father of the family played by Michael Penya, who's fantastic, and they love him. They know that he's got some sort of backstories, a bit mysterious, but they don't ask any questions. They're just happy that he's there working hard for them, doing a good job. And then one day the daughter of this family gets abducted and they and they come to Jason Statham's characters as please, mate, like, we know, you know back in the day, you maybe did some some dodgy stuff. He did some questionable stuff. We know you've got a backstory. Can you use that past to try and help us find our daughter? And he's like, no, no, I can't. Like those days are behind me. I'm just trying to stay on the straight. I can keep it so I can keep seeing my daughter. You know, her stepdad wants to take her away from me, all this kind of stuff, but they eventually convince him just have a bit of a look. Haven't been able to look into it. It's John Rambo. They can't help you, that's right, And he doesn't want to. He's very reluctant. But he finds out that the Russian mafia are behind it, and maybe this daughter, who's you know, sort of a sort of late teens and who he always got on really well with, is going to be sold into sex trafficking horrible, horrible stuff, right, and so and he starts to think. She looks at his own daughter and what if this happened to her? And he goes he agrees, you know what, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna have a little bit of an investigation, okay, And then maybe he wouldn't have gotten sucked all the way back into a life of violence. Except the Russian mafia make the the classic mistake. They go after his family, They go after Jason Statham's daughter, and then and then you know, there's there's multiple cans of whoop ass opened. And the way these the way these films always work, right, is the reluctant hero he gets he gets kind of slowly pulled back into this world that he doesn't really want to be a part of anymore. But then when they you know, they push his buttons, they give him no option and then the righteous fury, the righteous fury happens, yeah, exactly. And then and so then that that's actually quite fun, you know, like there's something about that Hollywood trope of the of the righteous man getting vengeance on bad guys. It's very very complet dismember exactly. And then all of a sudden, it doesn't matter how violent it gets at that point, because especially when you're talking about so one Russian mafia, bad dudes, sex trafficking terrible of course. And then and they're kind of went after John Wick's dog. I mean, that's the thing. Once once the scriptwriter justifies them, it's like game one, game on. And so because he's a trade he's got a sledgehammer, he's got a nail gun, he's got all sorts of stuff. So many of those movies Lison and those, Jason Statham really is sort of a younger elevated Liam because like, now, poor old Liam, he's getting on a bit, like he's in his sixties, maybe he's in his seventies, right, he can't do what he used to right now, yeah, yeah, yeah, take them both. Yeah. Well, at the second point, you start to question how good he is as a father. If they keep getting taken. No, you know that's not the case. So you get to see him kick butt and really very few actors do it better than Jason Statham. He does a lot of his own stunts. He certainly does all of his own fight scenes, and some of the fight scenes in this film are amazing. Directed by David Air, who did who did The Beekeeper, which was a huge, huge hit. No one thought it was going to be any good. It was actually really entertaining, and they're going to make more Beekeeper movies. And so the action in this film is really pretty good. The storyline, you know, you've seen it a million times. You don't go see these movies for the storyline. You go see them for Jason Statham to beat up bad guys, and he certainly does that a lot. All right, Well, how many triple flips with a pike or whatever. I'm going to give this three solid popcorn movies.

Great per flick with billow Sha, Hello, Hello, where do we stand on Jason Stathan. Oh, he's a bit of fun. He's a bit of fun. And for people who might not know this, back in the day, he was a competitive diver the for the British Commonwealth Games team. Yeah, like like ten meter platform diving diving. So and he so he was always he was a dude, an elite athlete whom be very very disciplined, vomiting and yet exactly so you know, those divers like rippled muscles, it's not a shred of fat on them. And so then so he has brought that same sort of work ethic and level of discipline to his movie making and he's been prolific. He's he's made some twenty seven movies in the last ten years or something like that, which is just incredible output in terms of the quality of those movies. Obviously that's a different story. You know, like people will remember him from lock Stock and Two Smoking Garrels and Snatch. That was probably the high point of his career, those films with Guy Ritchie and everything. Since then, when he's just been an action star, there hasn't really been much to a lot of those movies. He's been a transporter, he's been a mechanic, he's been a bee key bart and now you know that was probably one of his one of his better movies in the last ten years. Can maybe get onto that later. But so in this latest movie, a working man, he's a working man gets into fights hashtag relatable and so he could be said in Pertho this movie, he gets on the beers on a Friday night, but that's not what he's like. He's a former Royal Marines commando. He's always a backstory who's living in America. He's trying to, you know, hold down a steady job on a construction site so he can get a bit of money behind him so he can get better visitation rights for his daughter. Here's always the daughter. The daddy daughter storyline works so well because the tough guy little girl. It shows the vulnerability, you know, you have to have it like it's either that or a dog like John Wick had a puppy, right, but a puppy won't put your hair in pictisay, it doesn't. Based on based on a book series about this about this character Levin Cade, who is you know, this former Special Forces soldier a very similar thing. Yeah, yeah, eleven leven stranger and so and so. He works on this construction site working for a family of Latin American migrants. The father of the family played by Michael Penya, who's fantastic, and they love him. They know that he's got some sort of backstories, a bit mysterious, but they don't ask any questions. They're just happy that he's there working hard for them, doing a good job. And then one day the daughter of this family gets abducted and they and they come to Jason Statham's characters as please, mate, like, we know, you know back in the day, you maybe did some some dodgy stuff. He did some questionable stuff. We know you've got a backstory. Can you use that past to try and help us find our daughter? And he's like, no, no, I can't. Like those days are behind me. I'm just trying to stay on the straight. I can keep it so I can keep seeing my daughter. You know, her stepdad wants to take her away from me, all this kind of stuff, but they eventually convince him just have a bit of a look. Haven't been able to look into it. It's John Rambo. They can't help you, that's right, And he doesn't want to. He's very reluctant. But he finds out that the Russian mafia are behind it, and maybe this daughter, who's you know, sort of a sort of late teens and who he always got on really well with, is going to be sold into sex trafficking horrible, horrible stuff, right, and so and he starts to think. She looks at his own daughter and what if this happened to her? And he goes he agrees, you know what, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna have a little bit of an investigation, okay, And then maybe he wouldn't have gotten sucked all the way back into a life of violence. Except the Russian mafia make the the classic mistake. They go after his family, They go after Jason Statham's daughter, and then and then you know, there's there's multiple cans of whoop ass opened. And the way these the way these films always work, right, is the reluctant hero he gets he gets kind of slowly pulled back into this world that he doesn't really want to be a part of anymore. But then when they you know, they push his buttons, they give him no option and then the righteous fury, the righteous fury happens, yeah, exactly. And then and so then that that's actually quite fun, you know, like there's something about that Hollywood trope of the of the righteous man getting vengeance on bad guys. It's very very complet dismember exactly. And then all of a sudden, it doesn't matter how violent it gets at that point, because especially when you're talking about so one Russian mafia, bad dudes, sex trafficking terrible of course. And then and they're kind of went after John Wick's dog. I mean, that's the thing. Once once the scriptwriter justifies them, it's like game one, game on. And so because he's a trade he's got a sledgehammer, he's got a nail gun, he's got all sorts of stuff. So many of those movies Lison and those, Jason Statham really is sort of a younger elevated Liam because like, now, poor old Liam, he's getting on a bit, like he's in his sixties, maybe he's in his seventies, right, he can't do what he used to right now, yeah, yeah, yeah, take them both. Yeah. Well, at the second point, you start to question how good he is as a father. If they keep getting taken. No, you know that's not the case. So you get to see him kick butt and really very few actors do it better than Jason Statham. He does a lot of his own stunts. He certainly does all of his own fight scenes, and some of the fight scenes in this film are amazing. Directed by David Air, who did who did The Beekeeper, which was a huge, huge hit. No one thought it was going to be any good. It was actually really entertaining, and they're going to make more Beekeeper movies. And so the action in this film is really pretty good. The storyline, you know, you've seen it a million times. You don't go see these movies for the storyline. You go see them for Jason Statham to beat up bad guys, and he certainly does that a lot. All right, Well, how many triple flips with a pike or whatever. I'm going to give this three solid popcorn movies.