Jason Statham’s Action Thriller With a 92% Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score Is a 200-Day Must-Watch Hit

Published Oct 5, 2026, 8:01 PM EDT

Adam Blevins began working in the entertainment industry in 2022 as a Staff Writer for Agents of Fandom, where he progressed to Senior Editor and interviewed talent from Marvel Studios, House of the Dragon, and Planet of the Apes. He joined Collider as a News Author in April 2024, was promoted to a Senior position in December 2024, and has written over 3,000 articles for the site, including exclusives relating to Avengers: Doomsday, The Penguin, Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, and more. He primarily writes about the latest box office numbers and the hottest movies and TV shows on streaming, while also covering superhero and sci-fi news. He has completed a set visit for The Chosen and even has several months of experience writing Gaming Features at ScreenRant. You can find him on X, LinkedIn, and Muckrack.

Jason Statham is one of the biggest action stars in the world, and his most successful movie of the 2020s is quietly steamrolling its competitors on streaming. Statham has a few roles, like Deckard Shaw and Frank Martin, that he’s best known for, but in recent years, he’s sticking to mostly original action movies, and the track record isn’t quite as strong as some of his franchise work. Statham is expected to return as Deckard Shaw in the eleventh and final Fast & Furious movie, which is allegedly coming to theaters in 2028, but the film has many hurdles to overcome before it’s ready to be released. The action star has had to overcome a few hurdles himself so far this year, as his only two movies of 2026, Shelter and Mutiny, both bombed at the box office.

Jason Statham may have had a rough go at things at the box office this year, but it wasn’t long ago that he starred in one of the most successful movies of his entire career. Last year, Statham worked with director David Ayer (Heart of the Beast) on A Working Man, which grossed $80 million at the box office against a $40 million budget. The year before A Working Man, Statham and Ayer collaborated on the criminally underrated actioner, The Beekeeper, which cashed in a whopping $160 million at the global box office. Not only was The Beekeeper a financial success, but the movie has also been crushing expectations on streaming for over two years now on various platforms. The Beekeeper, which is currently streaming exclusively on Prime Video, has been in the top 10 for over 200 days now.

Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive the trilogy, and probably headline it.

You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are so careful never to be the reason you start.

You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about: the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and you’d drive through a building for any one of them.

You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how to ask somebody else to carry the risk.

You are not the most trained person in the building, the best equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.

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