The 12 Best Jason Statham Movie Moments

Daniel Day-Lewis has been hailed arsenic 1 of the top actors successful cinematic history. Indeed, he’s won 3 Academy Awards, which is precisely 3 much than chap English histrion Mr. Jason Statham. But has Daniel Day-Lewis ever choked a antheral with a fistful of casino chips, K.O.’d a dude with a coin, killed a fella with a spoon, oregon punched a bloke successful the fist with his ain head? Jason Statham did each these successful the same movie. There’s conscionable nary contest.

Statham has go 1 of the 21st century’s astir dependable enactment superstars. That’s wherefore it’s breathtaking that he’s got a caller movie retired now, A Working Man. So to people the occasion, present are our favourite moments from Jason Statham’s hard-hitting and hilarious career. Because let’s look it: Until they commencement giving retired Oscars for walking done fire, water-skiing blindfolded, oregon successfully taking up soft astatine a precocious age, it’s the slightest we tin do.

12. Homefront

You ever get the feeling that Jason Statham’s catalogue of enactment heroes are each the benignant of feline who could instrumentality down 3 blokes with his hands tied down his back? Well, you should, due to the fact that successful Homefront Statham annihilates 3 dudes portion his hands are tied down his back. What amended mode to footwear things disconnected than this?

11. The Beekeeper

If there’s 1 happening that stung astir The Beekeeper, it’s that he’s excessively saccharine connected immoderate of the scam telephone centre employees – letting them scurry retired of the gathering earlier helium blows it up simply due to the fact that they apologised. We don’t ticker Jason Statham movies to spot him fto the villains live, damn it! Fortunately, Statham partially makes it up to america by trailing the telephone centre manager, strapping him to his truck, and sending the bare conveyance disconnected the extremity of a bridge, dragging the screaming scumbag down it. They accidental bumblebees aren’t peculiarly businesslike flyers, but astatine slightest they alert amended than a 1967 Ford F-100.

10. Wild Card

Let’s treble backmost to the movie alluded to successful the intro, which is Wild Card – a movie that criminally flopped astatine the container bureau contempt being directed by the antheral who bestowed Con Air upon the world, boasting a bonus quality from Stanley Tucci with hair, and honestly featuring immoderate of the champion combat scenes of Statham’s full career. In the last showdown, Statham guts nary little than 5 gun-toting goons – equipped lone with a spoon and a food weapon – and walks distant without a scratch. Jason Statham: king of knifey spoony.

9. Death Race

Paul W.S. Anderson’s agelong database of video crippled adaptations haven’t precisely won the antheral fistfuls of prestige but, if we’re being honest, helium deserves astatine slightest a pat connected the backmost for his slightly-camp 2008 slayer car feature, Death Race, wherever helium vividly demonstrated a Mad Max: Fury Road-level committedness to crashing elephantine decease trucks an awesome seven-odd years earlier George Miller really made that movie. Statham getting the amended of the Juggernaut by conspiring with his bitter rival is easy the item of the film. The people remains: applicable effects - 1 million, CGI - zero.

8. The Meg

Of course, connected the taxable of taking down elephantine monsters, nary database of Jason Statham’s astir memorable movie moments would beryllium remotely implicit without the clip the antheral virtually murdered a megalodon with a metallic spear successful The Meg. After slicing its guts unfastened from teeth to tail, Statham surfs the elephantine shark arsenic it leaps skyward, shoving a instrumentality consecutive into its eyeball successful the process. Toppling backmost into the water, the prehistoric beast is subsequently devoured by dozens of its much diminutive descendants. It doesn’t substance wherever the predator comes from: If it bleeds, you tin termination it.

7. The Transporter

Sliding successful astatine fig 7 is 1 of Statham’s astir iconic enactment roles: Frank Martin, the Transporter. Of course, the 2002 archetypal is fundamentally 90 minutes of Hong Kong-quality combat scenes from prolific enactment manager Corey Yuen, truthful however bash you take conscionable 1 moment? The instrumentality fight? The axe fight? The autobus fight? There are a lot of fights. Well, the reply has to beryllium the lipid fight, wherever Frank greases himself up to virtually gaffe done his enemies’ fingers earlier turning the tables connected them with a acceptable of bicycle pedals and a bid of savage spinning bottommost kicks.

6. The Fate of the Furious

Speaking of heels, the villainous Deckard Shaw’s heel-face crook successful the Fast and the Furious saga was arguable for a while, but ever since Fast 9 confirmed helium ne'er really killed Han during Tokyo Drift, we tin each bask his past exploits without feeling guilty. Naturally, 1 peculiar infinitesimal that’s hard to spell past is the Hard Boiled-inspired airborne rescue of Dom and Elena’s babe lad successful The Fate of the Furious. Jason Statham has enjoyed enactment aplenty successful the Fast saga since his post-credits quality successful Fast & Furious 6, but this premix of gun-fu and jokes astir poo is arguably his top highlight.

5. The Expendables

Earning his spot alongside the heaviest of Hollywood hardmen successful Sylvester Stallone’s Expendables franchise, Jason Statham’s Lee Christmas has had plentifulness of clip to radiance passim the series, from kicking chap countryman Scott Adkins into an idling chopper to firing a flare from the beforehand of a flying vessel for a small fry-and-die. However, his astir memorable infinitesimal is the little but brutal hoops tribunal beatdown helium gives to his girlfriend’s abusive ex and each 1 of his useless mates. Christmas whitethorn lone travel astir erstwhile a year, but erstwhile helium does, helium smashes the crap retired of six dudes successful astir 16 seconds. He’s similar Santa, lone alternatively of a bully database helium conscionable has a weapon list.

4. Spy

In an perfectly scene-stealing show successful what’s already an highly comic film, Jason Statham afloat flexes his drama muscles successful 2015’s Spy arsenic Rick Ford: the unkillable concealed cause extraordinaire who’s immune to 179 antithetic types of poison and makes his ain suits. Statham enjoys plentifulness of hilarious moments successful Spy, but the champion is erstwhile helium regales Melissa McCarthy with tales of his legendary toughness: “I drove a car disconnected a freeway, connected apical of a train, portion I was connected fire. Not the car. I was connected fire.”

3. Transporter 2

Come on. You didn’t deliberation we were going to hide the infamous Transporter 2 tube roll, did you? Calm arsenic a cucumber, Frank Martin flings his two-ton Audi upside down to dislodge the weaponry strapped beneath it, each with the implicit assurance of a antheral flicking a speck of soot from the enarthrosis of his suit. Tell your teachers: Physics are cancelled.

2. Crank: High Voltage

After surviving falling respective 1000 feet from a helicopter, Chev Chelios’ intelligibly superhuman bosom has been stolen by Chinese gangsters. That is the crippled of Crank 2. As such, you shouldn’t beryllium amazed when, astatine 1 stage, Chev hallucinates an full combat astatine a powerfulness presumption arsenic a souped-up, 100-foot-tall kaiju mentation of himself, implicit with a disguise of… his ain head. This is simply a existent movie that decidedly happened.

1. Snatch

What amended prime for fig 1 than Snatch, wherever Jason Statham – successful lone his 2nd movie quality aft helium debuted successful Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels – didn’t conscionable radiance amongst Hollywood heavyweights similar Brad Pitt, Benicio Del Toro, and the precocious Dennis Farina – helium came distant with a full big of the movie’s most-quotable lines. It’s tricky to prime a favourite quip from a movie chock afloat of them, but Turkish’s iconic effect to Tommy’s tendency to transportation a weapon seems similar a harmless stake (“What is simply a weapon doing successful your trousers?” “For protection.” “Protection from what? Zee Germans?”). A safer stake than thing Brick Top suggests, astatine least.

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