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We Jason Statham aficionados accept grace notes in his films where we find them. And there's a gem tucked in the middle of "Wild Card," his latest. The scene a diner, where veteran Vegas bodyguard and luckless gambler Nick Wild (Statham) is collecting information on somebody who beat up a gal pal of his. Statham shares the table with Davenia McFadden, playing hotel housekeeper Millicent. Like everybody else Nick is friends with, he "did something for me once." So she owes him. He asks her, and the plump/sassy Millicent goes off on how fine he is, what she'd do to Nick in the sack. Even though he's English. Because honey, she's in housekeeping. She...