Director David Ayer’s latest action-thriller features a screenplay co-written by Sylvester Stallone. Rescue flicks and revenge flicks aren’t exactly the same, but there’s enough overlap among these thriving subgroups of the throat-punching, kneecap-shattering genre that both tend to operate between the same poles.

With A Working Man hitting theaters, there’s no better time to look at the filmography of Jason Statham, the definitive action star of our time. Few gun-toting and fist-throwing leading men have ever possessed the level of charisma and range Statham wields,

Jason Statham is cosplaying a construction laborer when “A Working Man” begins. He’s making sure the rebar is spaced correctly and the concrete is correctly mixed. But we all know where his real strengths are: Beating up people, ferociously.