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It's a shame to see David Ayer in projects like this. The man who showed great promise and enormous potential with Fury (2014) and End of Watch (2012) was never able to recover after his impasse with Warner Bros. And DC over his failure with Suicide Squad. Here in A Working Man, you can still see some of his directing style, but the script is terrible. The film offers nothing new, nothing innovative, nothing refreshing. It's just another action movie for a niche that's on the decline. It's one of those action movies of yesteryear, but one that got stuck, going in circles and developing absolutely nothing. On the contrary, it only shows elements that have been seen thousands of times and makes you ask yourself in the second act, "Why am I watching this?"

Statham delivers, without much acting range, although he can still develop a character in shootout sequences and physical confrontations.

What positively surprises me is the excellent level of photography and sound editing. They're not the kind that shake the industry to its core, but they're at least part of a higher-level film.

Do I recommend it? I don't know. Maybe just so you can form your own opinion, but beyond that, A Working Man is totally skippable.

As a side note... what a terrible poster!

Remember when I told you in previous action movie reviews that the script is an excuse for the action sequences? Well, the latest installment, featuring the indefatigable Ethan Hunt, is one of the very few films where all the action is well justified and supported by the script. Everything has a plot weight, despite how difficult this may be for the genre, as Mission Impossible is crowned as one of the sagas with the most spectacular action sequences in the film industry, and star and producer Tom Cruise has taken care of and ensured this. This is the type of film that draws from the wellsprings of adventure films, like Indiana Jones, and adds a lot of suspense, James Bond-style.

Now, you know that everything, no matter how healthy, is harmful if consumed in excess. Well, that's the big problem here, not only with this latest film, but also with the previous one. They tried to overdo it, they tried to overdo the spectacularity, they tried to overdo the incredible skill display of Ethan Hunt and his team. So the film inevitably falls from treating its audience as intelligent people capable of solving mysteries to intellectually slow people who absolutely need to be told and lengthened for a supposedly better understanding. Thus, the film becomes an unnecessary journey of almost three hours, when it could easily have been only two. Yes, it's a good action movie. Yes, it's a good adventure movie. Yes, the drama works well, although perhaps it needed a little more comedy, but it's not a Nolan labyrinth, nor a Villeneuve majesty.

The technical aspects are all top-notch. The film is very well done. The visual effects, sound editing, and obviously the stunt work and choreography stand out above all others.

This is a worthy end to a good saga; it's a must-see for 2025, but beware, it has its excesses.

A little bit of I, Robot, a little bit of Terminator, a little bit of M3gan, a little bit of Lucy, a little bit of Evil Dead, a little bit of horror, a little bit of suspense, a little bit of comedy, a little bit of therapy and self-esteem. It all works, but it's based on small pieces of other machinery that have already worked before.

Companion might be a light film, but it has its layers well laid out to be interpreted by an attentive and alert audience.

Good performances turn a futuristic story into something macabre, yet controversial at the same time.

See it if you come across it. It's one of the good recommendations of 2025.