40 Most Memorable Jason Statham Movies Ranked Worst To Best

British tough guy Jason Statham has become a household name and an international action star. As a leading man, Statham has helmed multiple action franchises including the "Transporter," "Mechanic," and most recently the "Meg" series, which will continue with its second installment releasing in 2023. Statham is a key player in the big-name action ensembles of the "Fast & Furious" and "Expendables" franchises, both of which are continuing with "Fast X" and "Expendables 4" in the works.

Though he is now a big-name box office draw, Jason Statham did not at all follow the typical movie star career trajectory. Before getting his start as an actor, Statham led a drastically different life, one which saw him focusing on a career in sports. Football was a focal point for Statham but much more prominent was his career as a professional diver. He competed for several years and was even ranked as the 12^th best diver in the world at his peak, via the Mirror. The world of professional sports might be behind him, but Statham still regularly makes use of his impressive physicality on screen in various roles. This list will examine all of Statham's major movie roles and rank them from worst to best based on their aggregated Rotten Tomatoes scores.

The 2010 thriller "13" is another extremely low-rated movie at the very bottom of Jason Statham's filmography. Embarrassingly, "13" couldn't even secure a critic score of 13% on Rotten Tomatoes, instead landing below in the single digits. The film explores an underground gambling ring that revolves around the potentially deadly game of Russian Roulette. Sam Riley stars as the protagonist in one of his first starring roles, but the supporting cast is packed full of bigger names, including Jason Statham, Michael Shannon, Gabby Hoffman, Mickey Rourke, Emmanuelle Chriqui, David Zayaz, Ben Gazzara, Alexander Skarsgård, Ray Winstone, and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.

"13" is actually a remake of a French film from 2005 called "13 Tzameti." The film serves as a rare example of the original director returning to helm the remake as well. Géla Babluani wrote and directed both versions of "13," but he was joined by a co-write for the remake in the form of Greg Pruss, who has not written any other feature films. The original French film was much better received by critics and general audiences alike and even earned the coveted certified fresh badge on Rotten Tomatoes. 2010's "13" seems to be an unfortunate case of the material being lost in translation.

"The One" showcases another early role from Jason Statham before he became the international leading man he is today. This sci-fi action film finds him playing second—or perhaps third—fiddle to Jet Li in multiple roles as both the hero and villain of the film. The plot incorporates the concept of the multiverse, with different versions of each person existing in several universes simultaneously. The evil version of Jet Li's character is on a murderous rampage through the multiverse, killing every alternate version of himself that he can find and absorbing their power with the intent of becoming the unstoppable "The One." Jason Statham and Delroy Lindo co-star as a pair of Multiverse Agents attempting to stop the rampage.

General audiences on Rotten Tomatoes enjoyed the film considerably more than critics but not enough to land the film a fresh score with either party. Though the concept had potential, "The One" frequently comes off as unintentionally goofy, and the action scenes lack punch. Many criticized this 2001 movie as just another entry in the slew of poor sci-fi actioners that followed in the wake of the massive success of "The Matrix" two years prior. The direction from James Wong was a notable weak point for the film. Wong has only directed rotten-rated films, though he has found much more success writing and producing television shows like "American Horror Story" and "The X-Files."

2005's "London" is the first movie so far on the list to land a positive score with general audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, though critics still gave it an extremely low score. The film is set in New York (not London) and takes place primarily at a drug-fueled loft party. Chris Evans stars as a man attempting to get back together with his ex, a woman named London, played by Jessica Biel. Jason Statham has a large supporting role as a stranger who does copious amounts of cocaine with Evans and engages in pseudo-intellectual conversations with him.

The supporting cast of "London" includes many recognizable names such as Louis C.K., Isla Fisher, Lina Esco, Dane Cook, and Sophie Monk. The movie was the writing and directorial debut of Hunter Richards, who has not directed a feature film since. Most critics wrote off "London" as a pretentious film full of capable actors wasted on unlikable characters. Famed film critic Roger Ebert gave the film one star and wrote simply in his review, "Bad movie. Ugly movie."

John Carpenter is one of the true horror masters but even he has a few rotten movies in his filmography. His lowest-rated film as a director on Rotten Tomatoes is "John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars." The fact that his name is included in the title of his worst movie is an unfortunate state of affairs. Carpenter's typical horror stylings are technically still present but far more emphasis is placed on the action and science fiction elements this time around.

The story is set in the distant future and follows a group of Mars-based police officers tasked with transporting a criminal. They run afoul of the titular "Ghosts of Mars" who possess the locals. The main cast consists of Ice Cube, Natasha Henstridge, Jason Statham, Clea DuVall, and Pam Grier. Carpenter has directed only one additional film since this 2001 flop, the 2010 slasher film "The Ward." Critics agreed that "Ghosts of Mars" did not find John Carpenter working at his prime. Marc Savlov described the film in his review as "like watching a John Carpenter greatest-hits reel done by a rank amateur."

2016's "Mechanic: Resurrection" is a sequel to "The Mechanic" from five years earlier. Jason Statham reprises his role as Arthur Bishop, a renowned assassin. Following the events of the first film, Bishop faked his death and absconded to Rio de Janeiro. When someone discovers his true identity, Bishop is forced to carry out three assassinations on different continents. This sequel has hardly anything in common with the first film, which was a remake of a Charles Bronson action film from the 1970s.

The other big names on the cast are Jessica Alba as the kidnapped woman Bishop is in love with, Michelle Yeoh as a friend of Bishop's who runs a resort in Thailand, and Tommy Lee Jones as one of the assassination targets. Film critics were not impressed by the film's story or its action sequences. In his review of the film, Frank Ochieng called it "Woefully repetitive, aimless, strained and riddled with formulaic sharp-shooting shenanigans."

"The Expendables 3" is the lowest-rated entry in the ongoing "Expendables" series, which will grow a little bit larger with the upcoming release of "The Expendables 4" in the not-too-distant future. On top of being the lowest-rated, the third entry in this action franchise also gave the weakest performance at the domestic box office, earning less than half of what each of the previous two films brought in, which might explain the long gap between the third and fourth films.

The main Expendables crew returns for their third adventure with a few new notable additions to the cast as well. Antonio Banderas, Harrison Ford, Wesley Snipes, Kelsey Grammer, and Ronda Rousey all joined the already massive cast of action stars for the first time. The villain the Expendables face off against this time around is an arms dealer played by Mel Gibson. Some fans of the franchise were off-put by this sequel as it softened the action scenes and language in order to receive a PG-13 rating after the first two films were rated R and featured plenty of bloody violence.

Jason Statham stars in the titular role as "Parker," a professional thief who gets double-crossed by his crew and seeks revenge. "Parker" is a fairly standard action film that mixes in some heist elements to shake up the formula, but not enough to land positive scores with critics or audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. Michael Chiklis plays the leader of Parker's old crew in an antagonist role, and Jennifer Lopez has a supporting role in which she teams up with Parker to get revenge.

"Parker" might not be especially weak in any one area but it also doesn't excel in any regard. Most critics found "Parker" too generic and lackluster to be worth watching. If there is any one area that critics frowned on the most, it is the script. Critic Mike Massie called the story "severely lacking in creativity," and Richard Propes of The Independent Critic wrote in his review that "John J. McLaughlin's script is laughably bad."

"Death Race" is a 2008 reboot of 1975's "Death Race 2000" produced by B-movie king Roger Corman. This sci-fi action film is set in the near future where prisoners compete in a deadly armored car race broadcast on television. The winner earns automatic release from prison, so Statham's character agrees to race under the identity of the sport's most famous competitor, the mask-wearing racer Frankenstein, who was played by David Carradine in the 1975 film.

Although "Death Race" might not have fared well with critics, it was successful enough as a reboot to launch a long string of prequels, sequels, and spinoffs over the following decade with the most recent entry, "Death Race: Beyond Anarchy," arriving as recently as 2018. Alongside Jason Statham on the cast were Jason Clarke, Joan Allen, Ian McShane, and Tyrese Gibson, a gathering of actors which led to film critic Brandy McDonnell writing "Paul W.S. Anderson gets a far better cast than he deserves for the crash-and-bang spectacle." Paul W.S. Anderson is another filmmaker who has only directed movies with rotten scores.

"The Expendables" brings together some of the film industry's biggest action stars as a team of elite mercenaries who take on deadly missions. Their first outing finds them heading to South America to take out a dictator on secret orders from a CIA operative. The big selling point for "The Expendables" is the cast, which is packed with the likes of Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Terry Crews, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Jet Li, Eric Roberts, 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, and even Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a pair of cameo roles.

In addition to starring in the film, Sylvester Stallone also directed and co-wrote "The Expendables" with Dave Callaham, who would go on to write blockbuster movies like "Godzilla," "Wonder Woman 1984," and "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" as well as the two upcoming "Spider-man: Across the Spider-Verse" movies. The first "Expendables" movie might not have fared well with Rotten Tomatoes critics, but audiences enjoyed the film and made it a major box office success, bringing in more than $274 million worldwide, via Box Office Mojo.

"Blitz" found Jason Statham returning to the English film industry after a stint of starring in Hollywood films. Though it does contain bursts of the action that Statham had become known for by 2011, "Blitz" is more of a crime thriller than a straight-up action film. Statham stars as Brant, a London police officer with a reputation for being especially violent. It's up to him to take down a serial killer who is specifically targeting members of the police force. The rather impressive cast also features Mark Rylance, David Morrissey, Luke Evans, Aiden Gillen, and Paddy Considine.

The story was adapted from the novel of the same name written by Ken Bruen. "Blitz" is actually the fourth in a series of seven books following the Brant character, but the movie stands on its own as a contained story. The adapted screenplay had the distinguished honor of being featured on the Black List in 2007, the yearly roundup of the most popular but unproduced screenplays as voted on by film executives. The screenplay might have impressed many executives, but the ultimate result was a film that didn't impress most critics. In his review for The Guardian, Philip French called the movie "inferior to the police procedurals you can see any night on television."

The second "Transporter" film fared a bit better with critics than the third installment, but still not well enough to land fresh scores with critics or general audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. This sequel swaps the setting of the original for Miami, Florida. Jason Statham reprises his role as the courier Frank Martin. This time, he's tasked with transporting a young boy whose father is a politician, played by Matthew Modine. Frank's job becomes infinitely more difficult when the child is kidnapped and infected with a contagious virus that his abductors plan to spread en masse.

Also of note on the cast are Jason Flemyng—who Statham worked with previously on "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch," and "Mean Machine"— Keith David, François Berléand, and Kate Nauta as the stand-out antagonist Lola, a dual submachine gun-wielding psychopathic gang leader who has a personal obsession with Frank. The writers of the original "Transporter" film, Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen, returned to write the sequel, and Louis Leterrier returned to the director's chair. Absent, however, was Hong Kong martial arts actor and filmmaker Corey Yuen, who co-directed the first film with Leterrier.

The first "Transporter" film from 2002 fared the best out of the entire "Transporter" franchise, but even the highest-rated outing of the series still landed a marginally rotten score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. At least general audiences enjoyed the film enough to earn it a fresh score. Set in the French Mediterranean, "The Transporter" sees Statham taking on the role of the ex-special forces courier for the first time. The tough and strict courier breaks his personal code of conduct upon learning that the latest package he has been hired to transport is an abducted woman, landing them both in danger.

"The Transporter" was co-written by the screenwriting team of Robert Mark Kamen and Luc Besson, who would return to write all three of the Statham-helmed entries in the series. The two have collaborated on numerous projects over the years, including co-writing popular movies like "The Fifth Element" and "Taken." Kamen is likely best known as the writer of the "Karate Kid" series, while Besson is known as the French writer and director behind several major action films, including "Léon: The Professional," "Nikita," and the aforementioned "The Fifth Element." For the first "Transport" film only, Corey Yuen was involved as the co-director alongside Louis Leterrier. Yuen was a veteran of the Hong Kong action film industry who frequently worked alongside Jackie Chan, Yuen Biao, and Sammo Hung. He brought his martial arts expertise as a performer and director to "The Transporter" to lend the action scenes a style that set it apart from similar English-language action movies.

Released in 2004, "Cellular" is very much a product of its time in that it's a thriller revolving around cellphones as a gimmick. Kim Basinger stars as a mother and science teacher who gets abducted by Jason Statham in a rare villain role. She manages to fix a broken cellphone and make a single phone call, accidentally reaching the cellphone of a random college student, played by Chris Evans, instead of the police. William H. Macy co-stars as a police officer who gets involved in the abduction case.

"Cellular" was co-written by the unlikely pairing of Larry Cohen and Chris Morgan. Cohen is best known as the B-movie maestro behind cult classics like "Maniac Cop," "The Stuff," and "It's Alive." Chris Morgan, on the other hand, is one of the main writers and producers of the "Fast & Furious" series, which Statham would become a part of many years later. "Cellular" was Morgan's first screenplay. "Cellular" was directed by David R. Ellis, who also directed movies like "Snakes on a Plane" and the second and fourth "Final Destination" movies. Though he has directed a handful of movies, Ellis has worked far more extensively as a stunt performer, stunt coordinator, and second-unit director for films like "The Matrix Reloaded," "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone," and "Lethal Weapon."

"Safe" is the final film on the list with rotten scores from critics and audiences on Rotten Tomatoes having just missed out on fresh scores by a mere 1% margin. Jason Statham stars as a cage fighting brute who winds up on the wrong side of the Russian Mob after throwing a fight. After they murder his family, the cage fighter is destroyed but ready for vengeance. When he crosses paths with a girl who is a brilliant young mathematician and is also in trouble with the Russian Mob, he takes her into his protection.

Most critics found "Safe" to be an effectively thrilling action film but not one that stood out from the pack. It's familiar presentation, straightforward story, and generic feel were all enough to get the job done but never excel in any area. Those who recommended "Safe" were sure to qualify their endorsement with the caveat that the film isn't doing anything all that new, such as Jamie Neish of CineVue, who called it a "mostly by-the-numbers, yet surprisingly involving and dynamic thriller."

Three years after the first "Crank" film was released in 2006, an amped-up sequel followed in the form of "Crank: High Voltage." The same creative team from the original returned to deliver another over-the-top outing with Chev Chelios and to push the insanity even further. Anyone who thought the first "Crank" couldn't get any more ridiculous was in for a shock with this sequel. Doubling down on the absurdity paid off with Rotten Tomatoes critics and earned this sequel an even higher score. The absurdity might have hit a tipping point with general audiences, however, as they did not connect with "Crank: High Voltage" to anywhere near the same degree as the original and have left this sequel with a rotten score after more than 250,000 user ratings.

"Crank: High Voltage" utilizes pretty much the same premise as the first film but swaps out a couple of the elements. Instead of poison in his veins and a demand for adrenaline to stay alive, Chev now has an artificial heart in his chest that requires electricity to keep pumping. Most of the cast from the first film returns, including Efren Ramirez as a new character after his first character was killed off in the previous film. The most notable new additions to the cast include David Carradine, Clifton Collins Jr., and Bai Ling.

As the cumbersome full title implies, "Hobbs & Shaw" is a spin-off set within the world of the ever-growing "Fast & Furious" franchise. Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson reprise their roles as Deckard Shaw and Luke Hobbs respectively, two characters who had previously played key roles in earlier "Fast & Furious" movies. Idris Elba plays the main villain that Hobbs and Shaw must team up in order to take down, a soldier who has been empowered with super strength through cybernetic enhancements. The supporting cast includes the likes of Eddie Marson, Cliff Curtis, Eiza González, Vanessa Kirby, and Helen Mirren.

"Hobbs & Shaw" was directed by David Leitch, who got his start in the world of stunts before breaking into directing as the uncredited co-director of "John Wick." Between "John Wick" and "Hobbs & Shaw," Leitch also directed "Atomic Blonde" and "Deadpool 2." Having a director with such bonafide stunt chops at the helm ensured that "Hobbs & Shaw" was packed with impressive action sequences. This spin-off outing did the "Fast & Furious" series justice according to most critics, with some critics like Alex Bentley going as far as to call it "one of the best films in the series."

"The Fate of the Furious" is the eighth canonical entry in the expansive "Fast & Furious" series. Jason Statham reprises his role as Deckard Shaw for the second time after making his first, uncredited appearance in the series in "Fast & Furious 6." This globe-trotting installment in the series finds Dom, played by Vin Diesel, seemingly abandoning his family and values and turning to a life of terrorism at the behest of Cipher, played by Charlize Theron. This was the specific "Fast & Furious" production during which the feud between Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson become public news.

F. Gary Gray was brought into the series for the first time as the director of "The Fate of the Furious." Gray previously directed movies like "Friday," "Straight Outta Compton," and "Law Abiding Citizen" as well as directing more than a dozen music videos. Gray also directed the next movie on this list, "The Italian Job."

The first film to make it into Jason Statham's top five was also his very first feature. Statham landed a winner right out of the gate with "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." The film was also the debut of writer and director Guy Ritchie, whom Statham would work with again a number of times throughout his career. "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" is the first film so far on the list to earn the coveted Certified Fresh badge on Rotten Tomatoes.

Utilizing a large cast of colorful characters, "Lock, Stock" follows four friends (played by Statham, Nick Moran, Dexter Fletcher, and Jason Flemyng) as they get tangled up in the theft of two antique shotguns in a bid to pay off an exorbitant gambling debt owed to a violent gang boss. These four friends are far from being the only ones after these shotguns, however, and a half-dozen different criminal parties all clash because of the stolen goods. This scrappy indie film was made for under £1 million but brought in a big return on investment and launched a number of careers.

As the name implies, "The Bank Job" is a heist film. The target of this particular heist is a collection of safe deposit boxes filled with millions of dollars but also valuable blackmail material on many important figures. "The Bank Job" was directed by Roger Donaldson, the man behind films like "Cocktail," "Species," "The World's Fastest Indian," and the 1984 Palme d'Or nominee "The Bounty."

"The Bank Job" frequently makes its way onto lists of the best heist films ever made, such as Time Magazine's countdown of the 25 best heist films or Rotten Tomatoes' countdown of the highest-rated heist films on the entire platform. This certified fresh caper impressed most critics, such as Sean Axmaker, who called it "a terrific piece of heist filmmaking made with a rough-and-tumble attitude and old-school professionalism." The few critics who gave negative reviews to "The Bank Job" cited a lack of personality and a generic story that failed to impress. In his review for RogerEbert.com, Jim Emerson described the film's middle-of-the-road execution as "No worse than its generic title. And no better."

Jason Statham's highest-rated film according to Rotten Tomatoes critics is the 2015 action comedy "Spy." Melissa McCarthy stars in the lead role as a CIA analyst who goes undercover in the field after the agent she works closely with, played by Jude Law, is taken out during a mission. Jason Statham has a standout role as a rival spy working for MI6 who competes with McCarthy to get the job done first. Other noteworthy names on the cast include Miranda Hart, Rose Byrne, Peter Serafinowicz, Morena Baccarin, Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson, Bobby Cannavale, and Allison Janney.

"Spy" was written and directed by Paul Feig, who previously directed Melissa McCarthy in "Bridesmaids" and "The Heat," and would go on to direct her again the following year in the 2016 reboot of "Ghostbusters." McCarthy earned BAFTA and Academy Award nominations for her supporting performance in "Bridesmaids." McCarthy again earned much acclaim for her lead performance in "Spy," as did Jason Statham. Some critics thought that Statham stole the show whenever he came on screen, such as Robert Kojder of Flickering Myth, who wrote "Jason Statham walks away with every single scene he is a part of leaving the audience in a fit of uncontrollable laughter."