Charles Bronson, a legendary actor in his times once plays as Arthur Bishop in the 1972 film, The Mechanic. And today, Simon West tries to bring the cult classic to the screen once more with Jason Statham casted as Arthur Bishop. The story itself roots from the original film and doesn't make any significant changes to the whole story except some part to make it not the exact rip-off of the original.
Arthur Bishop is a mechanic, a contracted hitman which specialized in making a hit without a trace. They can make it looks like an accident, suicide, or anything that doesn't lead the killing back to their contractors. One day, Bishop is told to kill Harry McKenna (Donald Sutherland), who is also Bishop mentor, because the company fears that Harry has sold their information. After finishing the mission, Bishop is confronted by Steve McKenna (Ben Foster), Harry's son, who asked Bishop to train him just the way his father taught Bishop. Later on, Bishop agrees to took Steve under his wings and starts to do his contracts.
The Mechanic plot is told in a very short duration thus making the plot swift quickly and putting a lot of gun blazing action, it makes us forget what is the real message of the story. One thing to be noted, Ben Foster delivered a strong performance on his character just likes what he did on 3:10 to Yuma and judging from here, I can tell that he could rose to become a promising star.
Although it will not be a cult classic like the first one, but The Mechanic can serves well as a weekend movie this month. If you miss gun-blazing scene, gore and blood (in the first month of 2011 we saw a lot of drama) well The Mechanic is the perfect medication. But of course, don't expect a spectacular film that deserves a place in the Academy Awards nominations (IMO, but who knows?)
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