Tom Cruise and Jason Statham are locked in a box office battle that has lasted for more than a decade. Both stars are huge box office draws, and in fact Cruise's movies have collectively grossed more than $12.9 billion since he made his movie debut in 1981's Endless Love. In addition to starring in huge blockbusters including Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds and the Mission: Impossible franchise, he has also achieved critical success and earned four Oscar nominations, for 1989's Born on the Fourth of July, 1996's Jerry Maguire, 1999's Magnolia, and (as a producer) 2022's Top Gun: Maverick.

Jason Statham has dominated the streaming charts of Amazon Prime Video lately, with three of his films from the past five years ranking high on the platform's Top 10 Movies list as of May 31, 2025. At age 57, the Fast & Furious actor shows no signs of slowing down on streaming, and this latest feat is yet another indicator that proves his lasting power as both an action star and a global icon. Statham's name is virtually synonymous with over-the-top action movies like the Fast & Furious franchise, as well as The Meg movies and The Expendables series.

Jason Statham has a very particular set of skills that he will use to entertain you if you want. That is to say, he plays the same character, playing different characters in his movies. Whatever their current work and their role in people's lives, Statham's characters are always assassins or rogue agents who are trying out a different lifestyle before they're forced out of retirement when someone they care about is in danger. To that end, some of Jason Statham's best action movie characters are from films that have a profession in the title itself.

The John Wickfranchise revolutionized the action genre with its signature "Gun-Fu" fighting style, but Jason Statham almost stole it a few years earlier. Beginning with the release of the eponymous film in 2014, the series tells the story of a retired assassin who is pressed back into action after criminals destroy his newfound happy life. Though the simple revenge plot has been done a million times before, it was director Chad Stahelski's blend of martial arts and gunplay that made the action sequences jump off the screen.

DirectorPaul Feigshares an optimistic response to whether he would reunite with Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham for a follow-up to their critically-acclaimed 2015 action comedy. Beginning his career as a stand-up comedian and minor actor in several movies and TV shows, Feig would earn wider recognition for co-creating the cult-classic comedy series Freaks and Geeks, before making his directorial debut with the 2003 drama I Am David. Feig was later enlisted to helm Bridesmaids, beginning one of his most notable creative partnerships to date with McCarthy.

Jason Statham is on the verge of a major box office accomplishment. The well-known English actor has had a varied career, having first been a member of the national diving team and a model before starring in his first movies. He made his film debut in the 1998 Guy Ritchie movie Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, the film that gave him his breakout role in addition to igniting a longstanding collaboration between him and Ritchie that has since extended to include movies such as 2000's Snatch, 2005's Revolver, 2021's Wrath of Man, and 2023's Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre.

Jason Stathamremains a major figure in action cinema, though his latest movie is seeing middling results. Statham's name is nearly synonymous with action movies and the tough, gritty, and often violent characters he plays within them. The English actor's array of action movies includes the Transporter series, which solidified his status as an action star, followed by Crank, The Mechanic movies, The Meg movies, The Expendables series, and the Fast & Furious franchise, including its Hobbs & Shaw spinoff.

Jason Statham has starred in two hit action movies in the past couple of years — The Beekeeper and A Working Man — and simple statistics determine which one is more deserving of a sequel. Statham is one of the last remaining box office stars who don’t need to rely on I.P. like Marvel superheroes and can actually attract a crowd to a theater. At a time when most non-franchise action movies flop, audiences are still turning up to see Statham on the big screen.

Warning: Major spoilers for A Working Man below!A Working Man adapted the thriller novel Levon's Trade, and almost every change it made was for the worse. The movie reunites Jason Statham with director David Ayer, fresh off their $162 million success with The Beekeeper. A Working Man cast Statham as Levon Cade, a retired Royal Marines Commando tasked with rescuing his boss' kidnapped daughter Jenny (Arianna Rivas) from human traffickers. The film is broadly faithful to Chuck Dixon's Levon's Trade, with many of the same characters and story beats appearing.