Mechanic: Resurrection
It’s a dumb action movie cliche, but it’s got Jason Statham in it!
It feels like forever since I’ve seen Statham head up his own action movie. Once again Statham takes on the role of Bishop, a skilled assassin who niche is his ability to make it look like his marks were killed by accident. “Retired” since the last movie, Bishop is forced back in the biz by a frenemy called Crian.
And the cliches begin real quick (Well the movie actually begins with Statham kicking some much needed ass in a boss action sequence using the backdrop of Brazil). Bishop is set up by Crian to fall for a battered woman, played by Jessica Alba, and despite knowing what Crian is up to, purposely pointing out the flaw in this action movie cliche, Bishop falls for it, and now has to work for Crian to get her back when she’s kidnapped.
Though the Mechanic is suppose to be this real cleaver assassin in his ability to get in and create a death trap for his victims, I have to say, the traps go by too fast to seem cleaver at all, but I did not go to this movie to see Statham be cleaver, I went to see him be bad ass, and he does this in-between missions.
It’s not the best action sequences I’ve seen Statham do, not by a long shot. As a matter of fact, the action starts strong and strangely gets weaker as the story goes by. Not to the point where they suck but you will notice the dwindle in quality.
Jessica Alba plays perfect eye candy in this film. I’m a little surprise that after such a long time of not acting that she would pick a role like this, but if you only want to see how well Jessica Alba aged (or rather has not) than this is the movie.
I’m mostly disappointed that Michelle Yeoh (My personal eye candy) did not do much but stand around as well. I know she’s aged (Still looks good), but I would have loved to see her just take on one room full of bad guys using a coconut or something (She plays a beach resort owner who is an old friend of Bishop’s), but I guess Statham really needed all the action scenes for himself.
There is another star in the film but even though he has a key part as one of the Mechanic’s marks his part it too small to be played by someone as big as he.
The Mechanic: Resurrection is something you’d expect to go Straight-To-Video (Or whatever the kids called that type of movie these days) ,with it’s cliche story arch you see in every action movie ever, and it’s simple action parts, but hey, it’s Jason Statham! How can anyone resist, right?
