Review of Mechanic: Resurrection (2016) by Jamess — 06 Dec 2016

If you're in the mood, Mechanic Resurrection is a great guilty pleasure. No one was clamoring for a sequel of Jason Statham's remake of the 70's Charles Bronson assassin flick, but here it is anyway. The opening is a kind of homage/rip off of a James Bond open, with an actually well staged fight in a restaurant that moves to the top of a suspended railcar and ends with our hero jumping off and landing on the back of a passing hang-glider (holy Roger Moore!).

From there, Statham meets activist Jessica Alba, where after an evening of giggling (which I guess passes as chemistry) they fall into bed/love together. She gets kidnapped and Statham is forced to assassinate three targets to make up the rest of the movie.

The "hits" are rushed, for time, and a lot of detail is looked over. The prison hit alone could have been a movie by itself. And for an assassin that specializes in "accidents", he sure kills A LOT of people in the traditional ways, plenty of gunfire.

Statham attacks the villain's boat at one point, kills about 50 henchmen, gets captured, and is forced to perform the last hit (after killing about half of the villain's men). It's that kind of movie.