Jason Statham has a LOT of action movies to his name, but some are far better than others. Statham has had one of the wildest journeys to movie stardom of possibly any other actor, with his previous careers including working on street stalls, modeling and acting in music videos. His acting debut came with 1998's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, which was also Guy Ritchie's directing debut.
29 The Expendables 3 Statham almost died filming Expendables 3 when a truck he was driving malfunctioned and drove off a pier. While the actor claims this near-death experience was a major turning point in his personal life, the sequel itself is one of the most disappointing action movies of the 2010s.
25 Parker Many actors have taken on author Richard Stark's classic pulp creation Parker, including Lee Marvin in Point Blank or Mel Gibson in Payback. Statham plays the titular thief who is double-crossed following a heist, and he later teams up with Jennifer Lopez's character to seek revenge. Parker makes the mistake of sanding off the rough edges of the character, and the whole affair is just plain generic and bland.
21 Ghosts of Mars Ghosts of Mars is Statham's first action role, but he was once set to play the lead in the John Carpenter sci-fi action movie, which later filled by Ice Cube. The film was one of a wave of Mars-set movies that bombed in the early 2000s, and it was greeted with harsh reviews. In truth, it is one of Carpenter's weakest outings and felt dated even upon release, but there's cheesy B-movie fun to be had with it regardless.
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