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The Mechanic

There are thousands of ways to kill a man ... just check his briefcase.

A loose remake of the famous Charles Bronson film of 1972, The Mechanic is a guy who fixes things for powerful people, usually resulting in a dead body. After he is ordered to kill his mentor, he gets an unusual request from the man's son: he wants to learn the art of assassination. The boy does not know his new teacher offed his dad. Junior learns fast, but the bosses start to have doubts about the new team and decide they need to be eliminated. That's a big mistake for them of course. Expect plenty of high action and skiet, skop en donder.

93 minutes, No persons under 16 (Language, Sex, Nudity, Violence)
Action, Crime, Thriller.

Credits

Cast

Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Tony Goldwyn, Donald Sutherland, Jeff Chase, Mini Anden, James Logan

Director

Simon West

Screenplay

Richard Wenk, Lewis John Carlino

Music

Mark Isham

Cinematography

Eric Schmidt

Editing

T.G. Herrington, Todd E. Miller

Sound formats

Dolby

Soundtrack

Available

Made in

2011

Produced by

Millennium Films, Nu Image Entertainment GmbH

SA Distributor

Nu Metro

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Action
Language	Frequent, strong
Nudity	Brief, moderate
Sex	Infrequent, moderate
Violence	Frequent, strong, psychological
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Alcohol, cigarettes
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity

Violence

Blood / Gore / Gross

Guns /
Weapons

Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs

Smoking

Disrespectful /
Bad Attitude

Imitative Behaviour

Frightening /
Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes

Tense Family Scenes

Music (Scary/Tense)

Music (Inappropriate)

Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)

International Media

Box Office (USA)Mark Keizer The 1972 thriller The Mechanic was not particularly good, so it's hard to explain all the effort expended to create a new version that's also not particularly good.

Chicago Sunday TimesRoger Ebert The Mechanic tells a story as old as Hamlet in a style as new as unbaked bread. What's the point?

eye Weekly (Canada)Jason Anderson

ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli The 2011 version of The Mechanic is superior when it comes to presenting action scenes and keeping the overall energy level high. It is noticeably inferior, however, on a psychological level, and the storyline suffers from several hiccups.

ScreenIt (USA)C. Fuchs

Metacritic.com35 critics

RottenTomatoes.com141 critics

RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer Jason Statham and Ben Foster turn in enjoyable performances, but this superficial remake betrays them with mind-numbing violence and action thriller cliches.

Internet (IMDB)12237 Netizens An all around entertaining action-thriller.

Average .. 53%

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