Jason Statham’s Favorite Action Movie Revealed

Jason Statham has been one of Hollywood’s most successful and well-liked action heroes for more than 20 years, despite the fact that he never seriously considered becoming a silver screen star until he got the acting bug.

Although he has been training in martial arts since he was a small child, he had no intention of applying such abilities in a movie at that time. Rather, competitive diving took precedence, and Statham represented England in the Commonwealth Games of 1990. Later, he made his acting debut in Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, thanks to his growing modeling career and background as a salesman of legally dubious goods.

Hollywood soon called, and Corey Yuen’s The Transporter unintentionally created a whole subgenre when he initially starred Statham in the lead role of an action film on a mid-budget. More precisely, he cast him in the role of a police enforcement or military veteran starring in a movie with a one- or two-word moniker preceded by “The.” This role established the model to which the actor has stuck ever since.

A number of films have used this approach, including London, Chaos, Crank, Wаr, The Mechanic, Blitz, Safe, Parker, Hummingbird, Homefront, The Meg, and The Beekeeper. He has proceeded to rise to prominence with his work on the Fast & Furious and Expendables series.

To be clear, Statham hasn’t really acted in a martial arts movie, even if he has demonstrated his skills in the art form numerous times over the years. Nevertheless, he disclosed to Rоtten Tomatoes that his greatest inspiration was one of the most well-known instances of the genre.

“If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm – Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon. I’ve seen that a ton of times,” he said. “That is an independent action movie pioneer, and anyone who was influenced by Bruce Lee…” Everyone who has ever worked on an action film has probably been envious of Bruce Lee’s skill and uniqueness.

Including himself among those who “try to emulate him in whatever way they can,” Statham recalled his amazement at Lee being “so avant-garde, he’s years above, so far ahead of his own time.” Statham is more than ready to acknowledge that he is one of the few actors who regularly performs martial arts on screen and owes at least one modest debut to the renowned Lee.

When he first saw Enter the Dragon, he probably had no idea that he would become an action hero for as long as he has, but ever since he roundhouse kicked some cheap, disposable henchman square in the face in that movie, the movie’s influence has been all over his reel.