Jason Statham
The white Bruce Lee, just with some worse acting choices.
Just The Facts
- Has appeared in three different films in which his character gets attacked with an axe.
- Has appeared twice in two different movies in a scene involving his character talking to himself in an elevator, during what appears to be a hallucination.
- Personal Quote: "You ain't ever gonna get an Academy Award for doing Crank and you certainly won't for doing all the other movies I've done."
Jason Statham: America's Hero
Jason Statham is America's badass. Plain and simple, his patented fuck you stare, his constant rageaholicism, and his uncanny ability to beat living shit out of anyone he doesn't like. He can do it all, karate, driving, neck chopping, the whole package is there and it is unstoppable. He is a badasses badass, one for the ages.
9 Best Jason Statham movies in 9 sentences
Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Statham and company steel some weed and cash then Statham stands by and watches everyone else kill each other then walks away, badass style.Snatch, Statham must find another fighter to put into an underground boxing match, the only reason he doesn't volunteer is that he's already wanted for murder in twelve other countries. The Transporter 1, 2 and 3, 1 he transports a bag that turns out to be a person.Transporter 2 he transports a kid who turns out to be transporting a disease. Transporter 3 he transports a girl who turns out not to be a prostitute. Crank 1 and 2, 1 he beats the shit out of some mexicans with some help from asians. Crank 2 see above but replace asians with blacks. In Revolver Jason Statham gets tricked into giving away all his money by Andre 3000 but stil beats up a shitload of people, badass.
Jason Statham: America's new Chuck Norris
Let's face it, eventually Chuck Norris will die. No matter how many people he roundhouse kicks into flammable materials, no matter how many horses he jumps onto from 9 story buildings, death is inevitable. So, before that happens and everyone's mind is seared with the image of Chuck Norris dying from autoerotic asphyxiation David Carradine style let's all switch our allegiance to Jason Statham. He is awesome and, as he has demonstrated in Crank and The Transporter, it is impossible to kill him. In the nicest possible way, he is the human cockroach. So, I vote we all switch allegiances to Jason Statham because he will never ever die.
My alliance was with Statham well before I read this article.
ReplyAnd if Canadian Mary Pickford became America's Sweetheart, there's no reason Statham can't become EVERYONE'S new Chuck Norris.
Also, "Snatch" is an awesome movie :-)
ReplyYou do know he's English, not american, right?
ReplySome of the best "American" actors are from a different country. Might I direct your attention to: Liam Neeson (Irish), Sean Connery (Scottish) and Mako Iwamatsu (Japanese). And if you don't know who Mako is, he voiced Aku from Samurai Jack as well as Iroh from Avatar (the cartoon), and was Conan's friend in both Conan Movies with Arnold Schwarzenegger...
I suppose we have Bruce Willis though...
If you haven't figured it out already...my version of "Best Actors" tend to be action movie stars :-)