Statham’s first tryout as a standalone action star cast him as Frank Martin, a besuited wheelman with an immaculate black BMW and a very particular set of rules. Photograph: Allstar Collection/20 Century Fox 10. Statham versus marauding space zombies sounds irresistible, but he is a distinct second-stringer as rugged space cop Jericho Butler in John Carpenter’s muddled sci-fi western, related confusingly in flashback.Ī very particular set of rules. Mark Wahlberg is certainly no Michael Caine so luckily Statham is on hand, as getaway driver Handsome Rob, to bring some actual English class to this polished but soulless pseudo-reboot of the beloved classic. Sparks fly, but the whole thing soon runs out of gas. Transporter 3 (2008)Īfter a sunny dalliance in Miami, it’s back to Europe for the deluxe Deliveroo man, tasked with carting feisty cargo Natalya Rudakova to a ruthless crime boss. Recruiting Statham as beret-sporting knife man Lee Christmas (!) did at least seem like a passing of the torch between generations. Stallone’s wheeze of rounding up the sort of names that used to headline the VHS Action aisle in Blockbuster turned out to be a lucrative if not entirely entertaining franchise. This clunky Vinnie Jones time capsule – a soccer-focused redo of The Longest Yard – features a young Statham as mercurial goalie Monk, daydreaming of making cartwheeling saves against a team of lousy screws. Wily bank robber Wesley Snipes taunts a familiar-looking rough-and-ready cop while greenhorn Ryan Phillippe delivers a TED talk on chaos theory in this listless would-be thriller.

This bumpy remake of a bare-bones French thriller thrusts desperate men into a life-or-death Russian Roulette tournament Statham has little to do as a rich businessman betting on the result. In his little-seen US debut, Statham convincingly plays raspy heavy Mr B in a tale of Brooklyn rapping and drug-dealing gone awry, endangering Ja Rule’s face with a deli-slicing machine. In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007)įrom German shlockmeister Uwe Boll, this tepid fantasy yarn tasks Jason Statham’s sturdy yeoman with slapping down evil sorcerer Ray Liotta.

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