The Mechanic Movie Reviews

He has directed several action blockbusters over the years. Collaborating for the first time with Jason Statham, the go-to kick-butt star of the current generation, UK-born filmmaker Simon West (Con Air, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider) is once again hell-bent on knocking the viewer into a state of submission. A loose remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson thriller of the same name, the title refers to a taciturn hit-man (Statham) who carries out his assignments

For a while now, I have craved an all-out action movie that delivers the satisfying crunch, crash, boom and pow of mindless cinematic violence. The trailers for The Mechanic seemed to suggest that it was exactly that kind of film. And I was not disappointed. Jason Statham plays Arthur Bishop, a skilled and meticulous hitman whose jobs sometimes require him to make a death look like an accident (as evidenced in the opening sequence) and sometimes

This film might just have been called HOW TO BE A HITMAN or something as vague. But this remake of a Charles Bronson flick decides to name it the same as the original. The story is more or less the same as well. An efficient hitman, Arthur Bishop (Statham) excels at getting the job done without leaving a trace of him ever being there. He works for a very rich man and dispatches his victims swiftly, no questions asked. However, when it comes

The Mechanic is a remake of a 1972 Charles Bronson film, about a hit-man who takes as apprentice the son of a man he has killed. The two bond over target practice and other lessons in the art of murder. The whole time, the son doesn’t know that his guru is his father’s murderer. I haven’t seen the original film but in the remake, this reasonably interesting story becomes a soul-less exercise in violence, sadism and mind-numbing action sequences.

The Mechanic is a remake of a 1972 Charles Bronson film, about a hit-man who takes as apprentice the son of a man he has killed. The two bond over target practice and other lessons in the art of murder. The whole time, the son doesn’t know that his guru is his father’s murderer. I haven’t seen the original film but in the remake, this reasonably interesting story becomes a soul-less exercise in violence, sadism and mind-numbing action sequences

This dull remake of a 1972 film starring Charles Bronson makes you miss the beefy star who made a career out of peering balefully out a leathery face when he was not throwing his fists about. This time around, the mechanic is played by Jason Statham who is buffed as befits a contemporary action star, and displays no beef as he goes about doing what needs to be done : killing people on contract, without leaving a mark on them. The tension arises from Arthur

Jason Statham is overshadowed by Ben Foster as the jumpy & unnerving trainee assassin in The Mechanic.