David Ayer's latest project (ntbcw similarly titled 2019 film Working Man) is co-written by Sylvester Stallone and based on Levon's Trade, the first in Chuck Dixon's book series, and also takes a chunk of trafficking from Levon's Run.
Jason Statham - Levon Cade
David Harbour - Gunny Lefferty
Michael Peña - Joe Garcia
Jason Flemyng - Wolo Kolisnyk
Arianna Rivas - Jenny Garcia
Richard Heap - Dr. Roth
Isla Gie - Merry Cade
Summary
Former Royal Marine Levon Cade works as a foreman on a construction site and sees his boss Joe Garcia as almost family.
When Joe's daughter Jenny is kidnapped at a bar by Russian human traffickers, Levon agrees to bring Jenny home, by any means necessary.
Kill this demon
Taken meets Commando is as generic as they come, but tailor-made for the Stath.
One-man army (who occasionally buys drugs), biffs and shoots his way through enemies with a minimum of fuss, making the whole thing rather tedious.
Jesus Christ, there isn't even an end boss.
In the book, Jenna (as she's called), died by choking on her own vomit after Dimi drugged her.
Dark stuff.
But here, she's rescued by Levon before ass can be sold to a rich client.
But the most bizarre subplot unfortunately omitted is hitmen kidnapping Roth and his wife looking for Levon, with the latter quickly executed. To save his own skin, Roth makes a deal with the devil, supplying the Russians with cheap medications and eventually becoming a private doctor to the gang.
Err, what the fuck?