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The writer-director David Ayer began his career concocting scripts for action thrillers that put some psychological nuance into their boom-boom pyrotechnics. Yes, Denzel Washington\u2019s chest-beating boasts in \u201cTraining Day<\/a>\u201d (2001) made theaters quake even if they weren\u2019t equipped with Dolby, but there were<\/em> further dimensions to his character.<\/p>\n It seems as if he threw all that sort of thing out of his tool kit around the time of \u201cSuicide Squad<\/a>\u201d (2016). Ayer\u2019s pictures are purely blunt-force objects now, and effective ones. And all the more persuasive when Jason Statham stars in them.<\/p>\n In \u201cA Working Man,\u201d whose script was coauthored by Ayer and Sylvester Stallone, Statham plays a construction worker with a violent past from which he\u2019s trying to distance himself. (Fat chance in this kind of movie.) When the daughter of his boss is kidnapped, he\u2019s is compelled to go to labyrinthine and brutal lengths to get her back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n