Directed by Taylor Hackford, who made An officer and a Gentleman and Ray, the film mashes together plots from Statham’s half a dozen earlier films and adds a has-been star (Jennifer Lopez) into the mix to form a mostly putrid puree that writer John McLoughlin clumsily markets for five year olds.

The story details remain as minimalistic as possible — Statham owes $200,000 to some baddies or a lot of people would die. But Statham is the Emraan Hashmi of the United States, so is too moralistic to steal from the poor — instead, he decides to pull off a heist that eventually goes wrong as a team member double crosses him and leaves him for the dead. Statham, now pissed, gets into Crank mode and proceeds to exact revenge, hook up with the world’s hottest and depressed real estate agent (Lopez) and rescue his kidnapped girlfriend.

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The action scenes are as usual Statham guaranteed eye candy as the man stretches his muscles and imagination to new levels of incredulity — his superpower still remains keeping the muscles on his face immobile through all the buffoonery going down on screen. To make sure you leave the theatre laughing your head off, he even speaks briefly in what is by far the worst fake Texan accent to have ever been captured on camera. u00a0