Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a very professional hit man who always works alone, he is the number one killing people with a bullet whose reputation has caught up with him.
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Thrilling movie about the very deadly rivalry between contact killers and in which the hardened elite hit-man Bishop performing a lethal mission. Sequel to ¨The mechanic¨ by Simon West, at the same time a remake from classic film directed by Michael Winner (1972) that was starred by Charles Bronson with screenplay by Lewis John Carlino. And the concept of a boat detonating into a giant fireball is so intoxicating to the filmmakers that they repeat the effect on three different occasions in the film.Spectacular follow-up plenty of frantic action, thrills, intrigue and lots of violence.
The absurd relationship between Bishop and Alba’s damsel in distress is developed so quickly you’ll wonder if a reel of the film went missing. The majority of the action scenes are forgettable. The plot is a pretty half-baked doublecross pot-boiler that forces Staham’s Bishop to pull off three tricky murders to save Alba (whose virtue is telegraphed by the fact that her character works with Cambodian orphans – Bishop was an orphan too!) from a stereotypical sadist with an Oxbridge accent (Sam Hazeldine). (I’ll let you guess which attribute applies to which actor.) Worst of all is just how lazy the script is and how pedestrian the directing feels. And his costars, Jessica Alba and Tommy Lee Jones, are either a) visibly uncomfortable in the genre or b) in it for the paycheck and the chance to grow a goofy soul patch. Statham, a pretty minimal actor to begin with, seems to just be going through the motions. It’s a movie made by folks who know they can do better but couldn’t be bothered. Now, five years later, no one involved in Resurrection seems like they can be bothered to break a sweat. But everyone involved at least had the talent and/or the inclination to make it look like they were trying, whether it was Statham’s co-stars (Donald Sutherland and Ben Foster) or his director ( Con Air‘s Simon West). That movie was, of course, utterly ridiculous. It also tends to lead to some fairly creative kills, like the swimming pool scene in the first film. It’s a pretty nifty conceit that sets him up as a cross between a hitman and a Houdini. His calling card is that he terminates his targets in a way that makes it appear as if they died from an accident rather than being murdered. For a guy whose onscreen alter egos have included the likes of Chev Chelios, Nick Wild, Lee Christmas, and the aforementioned Terry Leather, there’s something disarmingly minimalist about “Arthur Bishop.” Arthur Bishop is the name of a guy who collects stamps. First, that’s the least ridiculous name the actor’s ever been given. If you recall Statham’s first Mechanic installment from 2011, he played a legendary assassin named Arthur Bishop. I guess all of this is my way of saying that I was really looking forward to Mechanic: Resurrection.
The Bank Job? C’mon, how can you not root for a character named “Terry Leather”? If backed into a corner, I could even make a case for Homefront, Wild Card, and the Expendables flicks (especially the third one). Cranks 1 and 2? I’ll be the first on line for No. There’s just always been some intangible blue-collar badass quality about him (like the original Mechanic, Charles Bronson) that I dig, going all the way back to his early street-wise roles under Guy Ritchie. And he’s not a particularly deep actor with a vast emotional range (although he did show a surprising gift for self-deprecating, deadpan comedy in Spy). There’s something about his bespoke brand of squinty, bareknuckle beat-downs that speaks to me in the same dog-whistle pitch that the Fast and the Furious flicks or the Marvel tentpoles speak to their partisans.
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In the interest of full disclosure, let me come right out and admit that I have a soft spot for Jason Statham movies.
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