Happy 53rd Birthday, Jason Statham. Let's celebrate this special day with 9 iconic badass characters that this Hollywoo...
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Happy 53rd Birthday, Jason Statham. Let's celebrate this special day with 9 iconic badass characters that this Hollywood action actor portrayed in this list!
Jensen Garner Ames - Death Race
Based on Roger Corman’s cult-favorite Death Race 2000, Jason Statham turned into a NASCAR driver Jensen Ames who is imprisoned and forced to take part in his prison’s "Death Race" and had to win to gain freedom. The race features convicts battling it out in a futuristic chariot race using customized armored cars with heavy weaponry.
Arthur Bishop - The Mechanic
Jason played as Arthur Bishop, a mob hitman with a special ability as assassinating the most impossible targets and make it look like an accident. Stuck in a constant state of either living of being taken away his life, Arthur Bishop is one rightly paranoid man. If he decides not to hurt people, he’s rigging his home and possessions with explosives just in case.
Jonas Taylor - The Meg
Jonas Taylor is a deep-sea rescue diver who goes through a failed rescue and self-imposed exile before being forced to come back to rescue a crew stuck at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, includes his ex-wife. Down there, the divers encounter a megalodon and this is the time for Jason's character to transform into a badass mode.
Parker - Parker
A slick thief, Parker is a man of precision and professionalism, with his mojo reads, "I don’t steal from people that can’t afford it and I don’t hurt people who don’t deserve it." The character has already troublesome identity but what makes the movie more eye-catching is that Jason performed all of his own stunts by himself.
Lee Christmas - The Expendables franchise
Of course, the original franchise with Sylvester Stallone's badass acts were supreme, but the appearance of Statham in the movie was still awesome when being next to Stallone.
Luke Wright - Safe
Luke Wright is a cage fighter and former cop who falls victim to a Russian mobster. His punishment is the murder of his pregnant wife and being beaten aggressively. He is about to end his life when discovers the target of both the Russian and Chinese mafias. Nothing else to lose, Luke teams up with the girl and together knock their enemies down.
Deckard Shaw - Fast and Furious franchise
Jason Statham turns into Deckard Shaw, the brother of Luke Evans's big bad boy in Fast and Furious 6. He is a rogue special forces assassin who's strong enough to survive head-on tussles with Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs and faces with Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto.
Frank Martin - The Transporter franchise
Jason Statham is the Transporter, and The Transporter is no other than the actor himself. Jason's performance in the franchise is so successful that he completed his own trilogy and Frank Martin becomes one of the greatest characters in Hollywood's action movies. He knows every detail, down to how each occupant will affect the tires he chose that day.
Chev Chelios - Crank And Crank 2 : High Voltage
Chev Chelios gets injected with a drug into his veins which inhibits adrenaline flows to his heart. He needs to constantly shock his system into producing high volumes of adrenaline to stay alive. He even gets an artificial heart in the sequel, which means Chev has to now literally shock his system with electricity for the energy his body needs.
This character of Jason Statham is considered as a unique character not just for Statham but for action movies in general. It has been twenty years since then but Chev would probably a role that Jason is remembered for.
