After starring in Parker and Hummingbird, Jason Statham returns for the third time this year in another one-word, testosterone-fuelled movie.

This time he’s playing DEA agent Phil Broker, whose quiet family life is doomed once he crosses paths with meth man Gator (James Franco) and his gang of drug traffickers.

“I’m going to read my little girl a bedtime story,” says Broker. “And this is how it ends.”

In Steven Knight’s Hummingbird, Statham was a military man falling for a nun.

Here, for a bit of extra variety, he’s lighter on the universal stubble and heavier on the attempt to do a different accent.

This, after all, is a High Noon-flavoured Hollywood movie and another chance to move up the scale while sticking to what he does best: nutting people.

Broker has still got Statham’s uncompromising, butt-kicking attitude, despite having a young daughter called Maddy (Izabela Vidovic) to soften him up with a spot of horse riding. Sweet.

“Were you scared today?” she asks.

“Nothing wrong with being a bit scared,” he replies.

“How come you didn’t look scared?”

“Lots of practice.”

Dead right.

Adapted from a Chuck Logan novel by Statham’s Expendables’ buddy Sylvester Stallone, the film is directed by Gary Fleder (Kiss The Girls) and co-stars Patsy Kensit lookalike Kate Bosworth as foul-mouthed love interest Cassie.

Statham is not the English Clint Eastwood yet, but if someone fancied calling him Dirty Jason... who knows?

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