Review of Mechanic: Resurrection (2016) by Ronnie L — 26 Aug 2016
Is Statham like a can opener? I really liked 2011's reboot of Mechanic. In particular, I was enamored of Donald Sutherland's easy orange-juice pitch voice. Even better was the edgy frisson Ben Foster brought to his role.
The best was the OCD layer upon layer concept of Arthur Bishop's plans. He is the ultimate Prepper. Five years later we have Statham's Bishop working to rescue Jessica Alba's character. Bishop is retired and is being coerced into his assignments.
Our guest star of note this time is a most ridiculous looking Tommy Lee Jones. I don't like the movie as much as the last one, mostly due to a stupefyingly lazy screenplay. At one point Bishop fights his way towards jumping off a yacht, when nobody would logically have been trying to stop him.
He could have simply been escorted to a tender boat, but that would drop a meaningless fight scene. They try to give Alba's character a little toughness, but it is too little and comes too late. This installment of Mechanic has a different director, David Gansel.
He seems to be just a smidge heavy on the quick cut-away shaky cam shots. Statham can do the action, so just show it. Statham doesn't do accents well. He doesn't really do tear jerker realistic drama.
Even in last year's Spy when he expanded on his tough guy persona to do comedy, he just did the same thing bigger. He is a uni-tasker. But he's really good at it. And that can he is opening is whoop-a**.
This review of Mechanic: Resurrection (2016) was written by Ronnie L on 26 Aug 2016.
Mechanic: Resurrection has generally received mixed reviews.
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