The Reel Rejects - A WORKING MAN (2025) MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:01:15 guys. Awoke in me. movies it was so many disparate parts like that four and a half stars that is 64 reviews currently um i want i've never seen killer elite uh i do want to think i haven't either prepper for any now these highlights um you guys are consistent i've never seen operation of working is a good it's uh it's one of my lower tier guy richie that's still better than most other movies you know because it's still guy richie he's wearing the outfit he's got to wear the outfit he's got where that it's still like guy richard

Starting point is 00:01:53 so it's got awesomeness, but like it's not his best, in my opinion. Yeah, there's a lot of Jason that movie's not seen redemption. I think London

Starting point is 00:02:01 is the most slept on Jason's state of the movie. What is 13? Is that Joe Keary? No, it's some other guy, but it's Mickey Roar Ray Leota 50 cent.

Starting point is 00:02:11 What is this cast? 14 years ago. Flight risk is out. Oh, it's time, Greg. We haven't watched flight risk. Wipe this movie away. With Mel and Mock. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:02:23 I love the mechanic. That was great. It's Ben Foster, dude. Yeah. I love me. I've been to watch that. There's some, there's some like,

Starting point is 00:02:30 you know, dad airport novel. Oh, 100%. I wonder if this book was. Oh, Roadhouse. You hear about two?

Starting point is 00:02:36 I think this is, yeah. I totally think this is going to be, I think this is an airport novel movie. Oh, yeah. Yeah, guys. So we watched this film,

Starting point is 00:02:45 a working man. And I'm not going to lie. I had a very low expectations for it. And so. somehow it came under those low expectations. And most of the time when I have low expectations, it tends to go above it in some capacity. And to me,

Starting point is 00:03:06 somehow this, the last thing I expected to be like was, it's a disappointment. That was the last words I expected to say. I thought if anything, it would be like, yeah, it was about on par with what I would have maybe anticipated

Starting point is 00:03:18 because I didn't hear like great word of mouth. But I thought actually, I think I remember seeing like, a pretty reasonable decent rotten tomato score i thought it did well box office wise overall i mean they like beat out some movie that flop so it had a good narrative yeah there's i heard optically it did well yeah there's a movie i think it was snow white i think snow white like failed and then working man got number one yeah where this was uh this this was uh this was uh this was a this was a this was this was a little this is a little tedious i'm a little boring with some mixed laughter kept

Starting point is 00:03:51 finding myself trying to defend it and that's not good when I was like I was like but I want to like it more and then like no well you're a big David Ayer I think you're more of a David Ayer enthusiast than I am I consider like Fury I think is one of the most slept down war films end of watch I think is so underappreciated for how good it is training days training day so like for me I think I just have like this this idea of how great he can be and then I look for that in the stuff that isn't as great yeah I I expected something at least on par with Beekeeper in some way.

Starting point is 00:04:25 There were moments I liked of this more than Beekeeper, but not overall. Bekeeper surprised a lot of people. Sure. As straightforward as it is, it utilizes its concept and its gimmick well. Yeah. It's self-aware.

Starting point is 00:04:38 It's the opposite of this. It knows exactly what it is and executes on it. This doesn't know what it is and doesn't execute on it. No, it's like it's at odds with like, do we lean a little bit more into like some of these heightened qualities

Starting point is 00:04:49 or do we try to be a little bit more serious with some like affecting points and that to me is when I would actually not hear the David A or script I would hear the Sylvester Stallone script Stallone was first credited writer Stallone has written some incredible things he's written some

Starting point is 00:05:05 absolutely incredible things okay some of my favorite movies of all time I'm a huge fan of the Rocky franchise and he wrote the first six movies which are the only Rocky movies he didn't write the Creed movies yeah I think he co-wrote Creed 2 or wrote Creed 2

Starting point is 00:05:21 but he wrote all the Rocky movies and some of them are hit or some misses but yeah i think he's a brilliant writer and um rambo's incredible as well first one but this is some of the other side of stelo i i can feel more of and the granted like david a as well writer director who has not had some hits um in the writing department i really thought that you know like okay maybe this is this can be them embracing more of the uh 80s cheese that they are some of that david a or beekeeper side with some and then uh with the two of them together salone oh yeah yeah exactly i thought we were going to get expendables directed by david air that would have been a fun more fun version uh yeah this movie i i don't think does anything special um in any way like beekeeper even if you don't

Starting point is 00:06:08 really love the plot it's like the action and it is really good yeah you know and to me i was going like why didn't they just make a sequel to beekeeper we could i just watch that movie instead um but it was all over the place where you're just thoughts, man. I want to hear, I want to hear where you got to say, let's bounce off you for a while. I thought it was a movie that had five different things going at any given time. And I would like about two of the five. And so I kept being like, well, maybe three, four, and five will turn me. And then, then I'd lose the love of one and kind of switch over to the other. So it was really interesting because I thought the John Wick stuff was very, it was too

Starting point is 00:06:47 obviously a replica. So I didn't like the John Wick plot. But then I was like, I really like the Michael Pena plot, and I really like the parallel of, and maybe it's because I'm getting older, but I really like the Jason Statham wants to be there for his daughter in a way that he can't be because of stuff outside of his control. So he wants to be there for someone else's daughter in a way he can be because of the very things that keep him away from his daughter. I thought that was interesting. I thought that like violence is, and that's why I forgave the first action scene being so early. violence is the thing that's keeping him from his daughter in indirect and direct ways violence can be the thing that gets a man

Starting point is 00:07:22 that has taken care of him back to his daughter that's a plot I care about it the movie does not become about that ever ever that's into it to me was like oh what an interesting conversation about violence and I thought not even kidding I thought what an interesting thing it would be to have

Starting point is 00:07:38 him being a day to day working man but his day to day office work is violence like I thought we were going to play around with the idea of like a day at the office for Jason and Statham is cracking skulls. Like, what makes him a working man is his ability to nonchalantly hurt others. And that being the thing that keeps him from his daughter. So I wrote a very different movie.

Starting point is 00:07:55 And so, like, I kept waiting for that movie to start. And then it didn't. And then it introduced a new movie and a new movie. And I kept being like, but where's a working man? And then, like, David Harbour to come in and be like, that's the movie I like. Because it's like, David Harbour represents the sins of the past. And he's now found peace in the forest. And he's got his wife.

Starting point is 00:08:13 And that's the thing that he doesn't have. So every so often I'd get a little sprinkle and then it would go away. You know what comment I hate the most? Not every movie has to be Citizen Kane. I hate that comment. I think every movie should try to be good. I think we're trying to explain this movie, you and I are of the mindset where we can hear other comments that come in as we are talking.

Starting point is 00:08:35 Oh yeah, it was just an action movie. Yeah. Don't overthink it. I think, though, the potential for something genuinely good from this lead actor, David Harbour as a supporting character Michael Pena another amazing actor Stallone and and Ayer together

Starting point is 00:08:52 this this was a bunch of different movies right you had the whole thing with him being a construction worker but he's barely making rent he's got this thing about being supposed to have PTSD and brain trauma I don't know where that but they're supposed to have PTSD and brain trauma and none of that's present

Starting point is 00:09:09 at all doesn't like he's overcoming jack shit and he's broke pretty capable he's got to take care of his daughter and then this other person he gets kidnapped, who is his actual family is then, it's also got a grieving situation with his daughter because they

Starting point is 00:09:25 both lost their mom. And then this character gets kidnapped. And then it opens up this underworld full of meth and Russian civil war family shit going on. There's the meth movie Biker Gang. There's the Russian John Wick movie. There's the devil subplot that they really tried to tie into

Starting point is 00:09:40 John Wick. Try to make it a little themey. Yeah. And then there's also the like day in the life Forking Man blue collar action movie. But the problem is, is like, I don't mind mess. I hate that comment. I hate anything of that comment that I was saying because I don't mind a messy film. I don't mind a rough around the edges film. I don't like, I don't mind a corny film.

Starting point is 00:09:58 No, I like him. We love Roadhouse. That's a great example of one that we love. Messy, corny, but it knows what it is. All that has to do is be entertaining. And I think the entertainment knob on this was like stuck. and like if there was like a zero to ten it was like in five to six the whole time well i kept saying it's dropping from six to a seven to six for me and then i think i i think it landed like a five

Starting point is 00:10:21 and a half yeah because i'm right there with you man of of like the plot at hand that they introduced could have been more focused automatically of they don't even lean into it's fucking called it's called a working man and and the guy that one to one moment they say it i'm like yeah and then it went away you could have a bare minimum do the jason statham thing where, hey, is his average Joe. I'm a working man. He's a construction worker, but, oh, he's kind of got a violent past. And now he has to be, he has to call on it.

Starting point is 00:10:48 And you don't see how it affects his personal life. You don't really, like, even his daughter and the grandfather, they're like, fine. And they kept adding stuff like the moment with him and the other soldier. And they kept at, like, there's some lines of dialogue that feel completely out of nowhere. Trying to be like military commentary. Yeah. P.T. Like, that was our, we have a kinship because of this.

Starting point is 00:11:08 But no. It's like, I'm so sorry. It wasn't, I wasn't, this wasn't your death or whatever. It was just so not it. And the movie tries to have moments that sound poignant about, like the whole thing where he kills Deemey at the end of recapping a lot of what we already know. I'm like, yeah, I know human trafficking is bad. Is this really trying to tell me?

Starting point is 00:11:32 It's really subtle before. And then the next scene, they say the same dialogue again, but from the two other sex traffickers. They're like, it's just money. We're just numbers. It doesn't matter. The other guy just said that seconds ago. Like, why are we doing this again? Also, I was right.

Starting point is 00:11:44 I called it in the beginning. That opening action said, piece, nothing to do with the movie. Nothing to do with the movie. I thought it would. That guy never came back. That sweet, Hefe, never. A lot of this feels like the product of rewriting and re-editing and re-shooting, you know. What you said in the beginning, or middle, I think is the problem.

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Starting point is 00:15:46 a dad book on a Sunday and a lazy boy or it's like this epic sweeping thing, but both didn't work. No, because the movie doesn't know when to go when it's going heightened. The movie constantly to me felt like it was contradicting whatever it was trying to do, whether it was

Starting point is 00:16:02 like, we're going to be really serious and grounded and real, and then it wouldn't And then it would try to go hide in. So the heightened personality aspects that they wouldn't actually feel like genuine personality that was flourishing or complimenting the film. And then you got strange moments of like apathy and of the daughter barely being affected by shit or even. And then she was so good in the beginning. She was good at the beginning. She was a real daughter.

Starting point is 00:16:26 I remember very specifically being like, wow, they really have a great connection. And even Jenny at the very end was like kind of like really cool about everything. And after the horror she went through, so, okay, so what are you writing here? Are you doing something where the characters, if you're dealing with such a serious-ass subject matter and then you want to be a movie that's trying to take it really serious, the characters should probably respond in a way that feels really serious. Like there's, I don't know which came first, the serious script and then they tried to add personality or they had the personality script and they tried to make it all serious. yeah because it's somewhere in between and like hey it's my dad he came back kind of lines did not go through a second round of rewrites there's so many lines of dialogue where I'm just like what is happening how did this get here no no I mean like even David harbour being like welcome back like what is this even what do you mean what are what are talking about like I guess he didn't have like a family oh but he has a home nobody I think that's what they're trying to say I interpreted it as in the beginning he's like you're going to have to go a place you're going to have to unplug and go back to who you are blah blah blah

Starting point is 00:17:30 But it doesn't feel like it affects him. But that's what he said. David Harbour's like, you're going to have to go and really dive in. And I feel like he was like, welcome back to being back in our world and with your kids. It's pretty simple. You could have done like a very similar outline movie.

Starting point is 00:17:43 So grandpa didn't fix. You could have done a very similar movie. Very similar, right? Super similar where you're watching a guy progressively, the violence within him is overtaking more and more and more. And he's losing control. And the PTSD would be a factor. And the concerns of the grandfather that are never addressed.

Starting point is 00:18:00 he's sitting there half on fire and the kids taken away? How does that man let that man take his kid away? Like, what is happening? The uncle, when he, when he kills the uncle, the Jason Fleming scene by the pool, that was the best, like, actual scene to me. Yeah, there was tension. I think the car stunt was the best action. Oh, then the

Starting point is 00:18:16 van? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it was at least like David A. or inventive. Yeah, that was one where it actually seemed that there's some cool style rather than, oh, Jason Stathen's choreographer. He was also using chords really cool and stuff. Like, it was using the, I like when, like, Jackie Chan, uses settings and I feel like Jason

Starting point is 00:18:31 Satan does that as well. And the opening fight scene seemed to set up that they would do something like that because he was using construction. Because he's a working man. He's a working man. Yeah, I'm going to lean into that stuff or his hands were like... What happens with the money? He needed the money and what's going to be coming with the situation with his daughter?

Starting point is 00:18:48 Is the Russian guy going to hunt him down? Is he going to be able to have his daughter back? Everything they set up in the beginning is not closed. The daughter got to see him for two hours a week that was going to get cut down to one hour every two weeks. And the grandpa's like, no, while the Russians are hunting you, you take her away. What? Yeah. He would legally have no right to take her and he does it when it's the peak danger because the house is on fire.

Starting point is 00:19:08 And if the movie wasn't tonally at odds with itself, I don't feel like this would be things we would notice as much. Like if it was if it was just cheesy and corny. Yeah. I would I would roll with all this stuff. Again, we loved Roadhouse. I usually go home for a week at Christmas. I only got to go home for three days this time. The first thing I showed my dad was Roadhouse. I like when movies know what they are and they're cheesy. It was trying to be road house and equalizer. You can't do both. You cannot. Yeah. You can't an equalizer three.

Starting point is 00:19:35 Not even Equalizer 1. We try to be Equizer 3 and John Wick and a David Ayer film. I don't know, guys. It's weird. I have like less to say the normal because I'm just kind of disappointed. No, it left me like. We've talked for 15 minutes. I was, we've given thoughts. I kept looking at the clock the last hour. Like the last hour. When I knew it had lost me, then I started to really clock. This should be a kind of a slam dunk. It's an easy plot. It's an easy. It's a simple plot. Another story about someone kidnapped and it's taken. Yeah. You know? It's just, it's

Starting point is 00:20:05 Equalizer 1. Equalizer. Breaking Bad and John Wigg. It should be a slam dunk. And I don't know what happened here because the movie. Movie did not seem like it was having fun and the script is way too bad to be something to take serious. And I think people signed on because of the ingredients. I think they saw Aaron Stallone and Harbors like, I want it in that. I bet this is. Can you type it in, Coy. Oh, yeah, a working man. A working.

Starting point is 00:20:34 Oh, that's a. You type BPL. Coy, you don't know that type. This guy's typing all kinds of different letter. We go. We're fine. Sorry.

Starting point is 00:20:42 Leave the keyboard now, please. 50%. 87% audience. It is better than I would have ever verified hot, dude. That is crazy. Yeah, man. I mean, people really like it.

Starting point is 00:20:59 And I love a lot of Jason Stathen movies, but damn. Wow. Yeah. All right. I mean, good for you guys. Hey, make that money. We're here to share our point of view. Hope you like it more than we did.

Starting point is 00:21:11 Truly. Looks like they did, man. That's a pretty, even 50% for critics is pretty fucking I. For the genre and everything. It's shocking to me about like how I thought this was a really generic, mundane derivative. And slow pace considering. And not a great artist steal kind of.

Starting point is 00:21:29 of thing like no this is this is pretty derivative and confusing yeah and i like david ayer i like david air too man that was that was rough not one action scene was even that worthy the biggest two i think were for memory was the van which was not very long but it was at least using its props in a really exciting way and i guess the third act but the third act we'd already been kind of driven we got like what was it the war of atrophy they mentioned i feel like that's what we got we got War of Atrophied where I was like, all right. I think Stallone, Ayer, and Statham are all bored. I think they're, I think they've got to be bored by this point, right?

Starting point is 00:22:11 Yeah, they just make this stuff. This is the exact same shit, but a lesser version than everything they've ever made before. And he looks forward on the poster. They've all done movies that are so much like this. That are this but better. Even Rambo. Okay, so Rambo 5 is the last, last blood. Is, is a story about, yeah, I mean, I'm not going to ruin the movie, but it deals again with human trafficking and stuff and a kidnapping.

Starting point is 00:22:36 So it's a, it's a very derivative thing of a bunch of things they've already done. And I think they're at a point now where they're all bored. Anyway, which leaves me bored. I don't disagree. Well, we would love to know what you guys think. It seems to have done well. I know it did decent at the box office. this idea of this type of movie doing well like a nice mid-budget dad core action movie this one

Starting point is 00:23:04 unfortunately didn't quite hit for us but we'd love to know what you think in the comments below please leave a like in this video please also really quick sorry yeah harbour great best part we didn't say that only one knows a movie's then state them is always engaging always and jason fleming was was really good too i thought he was rushing three things that really worked pretty well were those performances and if they cut out some shit and zero zeroed it in this would have been a pretty solid film uh i always love a knowing an actor one way and then when they completely surprised me jason fleming i was like i like jason fleming quite a bit i've never been like oh russian villain like he was so good i was fully in so i totally agree

Starting point is 00:23:42 and we said it during but david harbour like that man knew what movie he was making which was delightful that's part all right well that is going to do what your lovelies we will see you soon uh leave a comment leave a like subscribe and uh bye

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