'A Working Man' is exactly what you expect from Jason

He’s making sure the rebar is spaced correctly and the concrete is correctly mixed. But we all know where his interests truly lie: beating up people, ferociously. Soon enough — faster than one-time springboard diving champion used to hit the water — Statham will be doing what he does best in an action movie made by millionaires that hopes to tap into blue-collar ire. Statham plays a sort of latter-day low-rent co-worker and co-star of David Ayer’s latest collab — they previously teamed up on “The Beekeeper” — with the addition of a co-writer who knows a thing or two about lone-wolf underdogs: Sylvester Stallone.

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When the 17-year-old daughter of his boss is snatched during a night out with girlfriends in Chicago, they turn to Statham, a former anti-terrorist commando for the British special forces, who can’t help them. He’s given up that old life, in a different person now, he says. It’s not who I am anymore.” Admittedly, he says this shortly after fighting off a gang messing with one of his workers, attacking them with a bucket of nails, an ax and a bag of gravel. He’s a widower and a single father saving up money — literally — to finally file for sole custody by keeping his Reno Rock. His line boss wants to limit his visitation, alleging he suffers from PTSD, a very cynical use by the movie-makers of a popcorn flick with a body count north of a hundred. “I hurt, too,” he tells his daughter. A visit to an old military buddy, David Harbour, supels — helps change his mind. “God help them,” says Harbour’s character after the discussion ensues. He knows what’s mixed up in anyone getting in the way of Statham’s oddly named Levon Code (scramble the