Movie Review

Mechanic Review:

The Mechanic is a remake of a 70s action movie of the same name starring Charles Bronson as Arthur Bishop, a professional assassin who specializes in making his hits look like accidents,suicide etc.

Jason Statham plays Arthur Bishop , who is told by his employer about a failed mission in South Africa and is ordered to murder his mentor Harry (played by Donald Sutherland) which he reluctantly follows.

Harry's son Steve (played by Ben Foster) sees Arthur at his dad's grave and asks him to teach him how to be a 'mechanic' which sets up the storyline of an assassin teaching a rookie the tricks while trying to hide the fact he killed the rookie's father.

The Mechanic is a good solid action movie which is enjoyable due to many reasons:

The action throughout the film is done well and in some parts brutal with particular deaths or moves in fight scenes very unexpected.The action is impressive in this movie when used.

The action aside which you expect in an action movie, the plot is actually pretty solid for an action movie and the cast works well together with Jason Statham and Ben Foster working well together .

Jason Statham is now an established top action star in the film industry and he seems happy to continue making action films which is not a bad thing if they continue to be at least as good as this.

Ben foster is also good in Mechanic as the grieving son/ training assassin and his characters interaction with Statham is funny and solid.

The Mechanic doesn't disappoint as an action film and is a solid addition to Statham's list of action film appearences and is enjoyable to at least once which will probably lead to as few more watches if you are in the mood for a good solid action movie.

7/10.