In the Steve Martin–starring Pink Panther reboot, Jason Statham has an uncredited cameo as a French soccer coach named “Yves Gluant.” See, the joke is that he’s Jason Statham, whose image is very working-class English, except here he’s playing … a French dude. It’s all very complex.

A Working Man” aspires to join the latter, but it might’ve worked better had it confined its grisly ambitions to the former. The latest collaboration between ever-reliable Brit of Few Words Jason Statham and writer-director David Ayer — who teamed up more fruitfully on last year’s “The Beekeeper,