Jason Statham stars in the crime flick Parker as the titular criminal from Donald E. Westlake's novels, a character previously brought to the screen by Lee Marvin in Point Blank, Jim Brown in The Split, Robert Duvall in The Outfit, and Mel Gibson in Payback. (Parker marks the first time a film has actually used that character's actual surname, though.)
Based on the novel Flashfire (which Westlake penned under his "Richard Stark" pseudonym), Parker follows the eponymous thief as he seeks revenge against the crooks (Michael Chiklis, Wendell Pierce, Clifton Collins Jr. and Micah Hauptman) who betrayed him and left him for dead after a robbery at a country fair.
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