The Mechanic (2011 film)
The Mechanic is a 2011 American action thriller film starring Jason Statham and Ben Foster. Directed by Simon West, it is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name. Statham stars as Arthur Bishop, a professional assassin who specializes in making his hits look like accidents, suicides or the acts of petty criminals. It was released in the United States and Canada on January 28, 2011. A sequel was released on August 26, 2016.
Plot
Arthur Bishop, working as a "mechanic", aneaks int the lavish home of a Colombian Drug Cartel leader and drowns him in his own pool. Upon returning home to Louisiana, he meets with friend and mentor Harry McKenna, who pays Bishop for his work. Bishop is given a new assignment: kill Harry. Bishop's employer confirms by phone that the contract is correct, whereupon he requests a face-to-face meeting. Dean tells him about a failed mission in South Africa, in which agency assassins were killed. Dean says that only himself and Harry knew the details of the mission, and that Harry had been paid for the contract details. Reluctantly Bishop kills Harry with the latter's own gun and makes it look like a carjacking. At his funeral, Bishop meets Harry's reckless osn Steve. Bishop stops Steve from trying to kill a would-be carjacker in a misguided attempt at cathartic vengeance. Steve convinces Bishop to train him as a mechanic. Adopting a chihuahua, he instructs Steve to take the dog with him to a coffee shop each day at the same time. As Steve settles into a routine, Bishop escalates training, taking him to observe a contract killing.
The target is a mechanic for another agency name Bruke, who frequents the same coffee shop, Bruke's only weaknesses are that he is interested in young men and small dogs. Bruke makes him move on Steve and invites him out for drinks. Bishop instructs Steve to slip a large dose of Rohypnol into Bruke's drin to cause an overdose. Steve ignores the instructions and goes with Bruke to his apartment. When Bruke begins to undress, Steve attempts to strangle him with a belt as he had seen Bishop do on a former assignment. Bruke fights back, using his size advantage and experience, but Steve manages to kill Bruke after much effort and a lengthy fight. Dean expresses his disapproval of Bishop involving Steve, and that violated the rules of the contract arrangement, but Bishop says that Harry and his arrangement was for price only, and Harry left the details up to Bishop.
Bishop's next contract is to kill Christian Cult leader Andrew Vunghn. They plan to inject their victim with adernaline to simulate a heart attack, for which the paramedics would administer a fatal dose of epinephrine. While Bishop and steve are preparing for the hit, Vaughan's doctor arrives, and he sets Vaughn up with an IV of Ketamine, which will inhibit the epinephrine's effects. The hit men decide to suffocate him instead, but are discovered after killing Vaughan and are forced into a shootout with the guards; they slip away and fly home separately. At the airport, Bishop sees a supposed victim of the mission that Harry allegedly sold out. He confronts the other mechanic, who tells Bishop that Dean had tricked him into killing Harry, and engineered the failed mission to cover up his own shady dealings. Bishop is ambushed by a hit squad: after killing them, he discovers that Dean was behind the hit. Bishop goes home to call Steve, only to find that Steve had been ambushed. Bishop directs Steve to a hidden gun, which Steve uses to kill his attackers. Steve gathers supplies for their new mission while the plots how to get to Dean. In the process he finds his father's gun and realizes that Bishop killed Harry.
Bishop and Steve kill Dean in an ambush: on the way back, Bishop notices Steve carrying Harry's gun. When they stop for gas, Steve flood the ground with fuel while pretending to fill the tank. He walks a safe distance and shoots the gas, blowing up the truck with Bishop still inside. Steve returns to the house and performs two actions that Bishop told him not to do: playing a record on the turntable, and taking the 1966 Jaguar E-Type. As he is driving away, Steve finds a note on the passenger seat "Steve, if you're reading this, then you're dead!" Moments later, the car explodes, killing him; at the same time, Bishop's house also explodes. Back at the gas station, a security video reveals that Bishop had escaped from the truck, seconds before the explosion. Bishop gets into a spare truck and drives away.
Production
Irwin Winkler and Robert Charloff, producers of the 1972 original Mechanic, sought to make an update, Pre-rights to the remake were sold in February 2009 at the Berlin Film Festival. Jason Statham and Director Simon West were announced as part of the project three months later and Ben Foster and Donald Sutherland were cast alongside Statham in October 2009.
Release
Theatrical run
The Mechanic was released in the United States and Canada on January 28, 2011. Milennium Films sold U.S distribution rights to CVS Films for the release. It was expected to perform well with make audiences, with its release a week before Super Bowl XLV.
The film grossed $11.4 million on its opening weekend in the US and Canada. it has grossed a total of $29.1 million in those countries and $32.9 million in other terroritories. And worldwide total after a recound of over $62 million.
Critical reception
Review aggregator Rotthen Tomatoes gives The Mechanic a score of 53% based on reviews from 156 critics with a rating average of 5.6 out of 10. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an avertage score of 49% baed on 35 reviews. Rogger Ebert awarded the film two out of four stars and said, "Audience have been drilled to accept noise and movement as entertainment. It is done wo well one almost forgets to ask why it has been done at all.
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