If You Were Ever Wondering if Jason Statham is a Good Actor, Here's Proof

For a long time I confess I thought of Jason Statham as just another action hero. Sure he made some decent movies, but he was fairly one dimensional. Then I finally got around to watch Guy Ritchie's wild, ensemble crime adventure: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, and I realized how wrong I had been. Statham gives a fun, riveting performance throughout the whole film. His character is a classic swindler that, along with three friends, gets in a little over his head with some bad people. If you can see through all the colloquialisms, it's fantastic.   

Statham's a natural when it comes to being "the level-headed hustler of the group" so to speak. Statham followed up his performance with the lead in another great Guy Ritche movie, Snatch. Snatch is the penultimate heist movie of our generation, just behind Ocean's 11. 

Here's his opening monologue in LS&TSB. From the moment Statham delivers his line "hand made in Italy, hand stolen in Stepney..." You'll be hooked.