Movie Review of The Mechanic 2011, Action Film

More often than not, when Hollywood film industry is running out of ideas to make movies, they usually do some remakes or take some novels or books to make them the big screen version. The Mechanic, may be one example of it. It is definitely a remake of Michael Winner’s film in 1972. So, the problem with a remake is whether it is just fine, great, or otherwise totally failed. But some other moviegoers may just not want to watch it at all. Say, as one of recent movie releases this year, The Mechanic is a good one to spend people’s weekend, but it has nothing more than that.

Since it is a remake of a film back in 1972 (when many filmmakers had not yet had more extraordinary ideas to make them great films), the story can be said as simple and does not have more taste than James Bond or Bourne films. Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a professional paid assassin, and has a mentor named Harry (Donald Sutherland) and usually comes to a prostitute (Mini Anden). Well, it is common, right? His character of silent, quiet, strong, cold, and lonely (which showed by having no friends) is so usual for an assassin in a film. However, this character, also usually, needs some balance. And that balance comes from Steve McKenna (Ben Foster).

When Arthur’s mentor Harry dies, his son comes to the surface to take revenge. No arguement, in a harsh world it is normal that you want to take revenge to somebody who kills your family members. And Steve McKenna is this son. Funny and humorous, Steve is like another side when he’s working together with the assassin. Arthur teach Steve about the business in his world: killing, planning, bare-hand fighting, exploding, gunshooting, and using computer or technology, just to make sure that Steve (accompanied by Arthur  himself) can do it right.

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