Dark, Brutal,Action, Thriller with lots of explosions. - 6/8/2011 1:17:07 PM
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lewisb548
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The storys simple on this one, Statham is Arthur Bishop an assassin with tiny shreds of a heart, who is conned into killing his best mate, Donald Sutherland by the "Agency" so Statham out for bloody revenge, seeks the assisstance of Sutherlands troubled son, played with charm by Ben Foster, but the trouble with the Mechanic is that everyone is underwritten even Statham.
Mini Aden is Stathams love interest and is woefully underwritten, despite being a likeable character, DAMN YOU WRITERS!! Sutherland makes a croaky performance as the wheelchair bound Harry, the trouble with this performance is you cant understand a fucking thing he says.
Ben Foster and Statham carry the weight of the film delivering the action and most of the dialogue. The action scenes are well choreographed and are pretty brutal, Tony Goldwyn just like every other character in the film is underwritten, as the sleasy bad guy, but his brief appearance is memorable as he handles the weight of villain quite easily, being the villain in this film is pretty easy though because Goldwyn is in a mere 15-20 mins of the film. Another villain is the gay but very tall paedophile who Foster decides to kill with hand to hand combat, bad move, because that decision resulted in a house being trashed a fridge being destroyed and Foster being flung like a ragdoll through a bookcase. This being probably the best action sequence. Lets hope for a sequel, eh?
The action is good but comes in frequent short bursts, buts its nice to see that this is one of the better action films of the year, mostly due to Statham and Foster and the appearance of Mini Aden, brief as it may be.
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