A Constant Visual Feast

“Long, long ago, the revered comic-sage Patton Oswalt made the definitive exegesis of Jason Statham, the pride of Shirebrook, Derbyshire, England; Oswalt’s original MySpace post is lost to time, but remains archived on Tumblr by the noble efforts of digital preservationists. The gist is that, yes, Statham headlines a lot of junk food cinema—action movies that surely don’t require a whole lot of thought, but damn it if they aren’t the most fun you’ll have all week—but he knows how to show his audience a good time. Pay the price of admission, and he will, as Oswalt puts it, “fuck an explosion while a Slayer song plays.” (Full feature available at Men’s Health.)