Polygon.com / 07.06.25

You should watch dumb Jason Statham plane movies at home, too

As I see it, Hollywood currently has four stables of movie talent:  Movie-movie stars (Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep) HBO-movie stars (Colin Farrell, Steve Carell, Anthony Mackie, and anyone whose TV shows have movie vibes and movies have TV vibes) Streaming-movie stars (Millie Bobby Brown, post-Avengers: Endgame Chris Pratt) Plane-movie stars As I headed to Los Angeles for Summer Game Fest on a cramped United Airlines flight, I went looking for a movie to stream. I scrolled through new-release options that didnt fit the mood a reviled sequel I skipped? A musical that will inevitably suffer on bad headphones? A much-lauded 2024 Iranian film? and I couldnt help but think that plane-movie stars are the entertainment industrys most important but undervalued commodity. Jason Statham is the current king of plane movies. Protect Jason Statham at all costs. His latest achievement, A Working Man, got me through some really tough times (by which I mean 20 minutes of turbulence...
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