Jason Statham plays a homeless war veteran here, making 2013 the second year in a row he played a homeless man, after Safe (2012), where he was a homeless former fighting champion.
The Phone number read off to Joey on the answering machine, is outside of the '555' prefix that is assigned to use to prevent harassing calls to people who may actually have ownership of a potential number. '555' numbers assigned to fictional reasons are 555-0100 through 555-0199 and any area code can be used. this particular number however, is an active in-use number.