The Mechanic <\/em>tells the story of the one time that Bishop fails to question his own intractable rules that have kept him alive and the best in this business.\u00a0 Bishop\u2019s \u201cassignments\u201d have taken him all over the world, but home base is New Orleans.<\/p>\nAt this loner\u2019s house deep in the bayou, he studies the copious documents and photos in his targets\u2019 dossiers that will give him what he needs to reach and take out those targets. The moment of death does not move him\u2026has not moved him, until he\u2019s ordered to take out Harry (Donald Sutherland), his mentor.<\/p>\n
Bishop doesn\u2019t usually question Dean (Tony Goldwyn), the man who gives Bishop his killing orders.\u00a0 But, this time he needs to hear that Harry sold out; that good men died because of him (\u201cdebts\u2026his divorce\u2026he was vulnerable\u201d).\u00a0 But, Bishop makes a fatal mistake: He fails to consider the source of Harry\u2019s indictment.\u00a0 So, the deed done, Bishop pays his respects at the New Orleans cemetery gravesite.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s another interested party there\u2026Steve McKenna (Ben Foster).\u00a0 He thinks he\u2019s got what it takes to do what Bishop does.\u00a0 What he\u2019s got is that he\u2019s a thug, trying to compensate for a hefty inferiority complex.\u00a0 But, Bishop has to take him on; spend days with him on target practice; test him on a mission; patch him up when Steve refuses to do the job \u201cclean;\u201d and take him along as side man on two other assignments.<\/p>\n
Steve keeps his nose clean and demonstrates exceptional facility for ferocious annihilations.\u00a0 But, then he discovers something that will make him violate one of Bishop\u2019s cardinal rules: There is no place for vengeance in the mindset of a successful mechanic.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Bishop doesn\u2019t have much time to draw on his experience with human nature to stay two steps ahead of his psychopathic intern.<\/p>\n
Although Foster has been unfavorably compared with a gnarly version of Justin Timberlake, he owns this role; projecting considerable menace, and earning a favorable comparison to the young Ed Norton.<\/p>\n
At this stage of his career, Statham can pull off this kind of role in his sleep; which takes it dangerously close to a \u201cmechanical\u201d delivery, even as it thrills.\u00a0 Firing on all four cylinders of blood, bashed-up autos, gun play and gore, The Mechanic<\/em> passes inspection by even the most die-hard action-movie fan.\u00a0 Rated R for nudity and strong violence, language and sex content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Maggie Scott Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) kills people.\u00a0 Not just any people; the ones who have violated codes of\u2014and committed unforgiveable rule infractions of \u2014international geo-political power plays. The Mechanic tells the story of the one time that Bishop fails to question his own intractable rules that have kept him alive and the best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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