2025 · action · crime · thriller
A Working Man
Directed by David Ayer1h 56m2025
Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss's daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined.
Our read: A Working Man (2025) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
Watching A Working Man tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How A Working Man feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want reliable Statham rescue violence with construction-worker competence and blunt stakes.”
Skip it tonight — You need fresh plotting or can't stomach human-trafficking peril and heavy gunplay.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like A Working Man, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →