I like Jason Statham, who stars in today's new release Homefront. He's fun in supporting roles in movies like Snatch or The Italian Job, or even the occasional leading role in something like Crank: High Voltage, which basically treats his body as a vehicle for ridiculously over-the-top punishment.
But Jason Statham also has a bad movie problem. Over the past decade, he's starred in a string of painfully generic action blockbusters with titles like Chaos or Safe or Redemption or, yes, Homefront — and they're all virtually indistinguishable from one another.
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