It’s Jason Statham; you don’t need to know a lot more. He’s got a dark past, he’s made mistakes, he’s out for redemption — we don’t care because we want to see the action, the criminals getting their faces melted with a boot. We want to see bad guys make a mistake and, boom, they’re missing an arm. That’s the kind of thing Statham has built his career on, and one of the finest examples of that is streaming with a huge audience right now.
The Mechanic stars Statham as Arthur Bishop, a hitman known for making his kills look like accidents. Kind of like Hitman, and they’re both bald too. Maybe that’s who Agent 47 is really based on. Bishop lives by discipline and precision, but his life begins to unravel when his mentor, Harry, is murdered. Things get even messier when Bishop takes Harry’s son, Steve, under his wing, training him in the family business while hiding painful truths about what really happened.
The Mechanic stars Jason Statham (The Beekeeper, Fast X) as Arthur Bishop, Ben Foster (Hell or High Water, 3:10 to Yuma) as Steve McKenna, Tony Goldwyn (Ghost, Oppenheimer) as Dean Sanderson, Donald Sutherland (The Hunger Games, Pride & Prejudice) as Harry McKenna, Jeff Chase (Escape Plan, Star Trek) as Burke, and Mini Andén (Tropic Thunder, Ocean’s Twelve) as Sarah.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
It wasn’t a massive breakout success, but it certainly did well enough for a Jason Statham thriller, particularly a mid-budget one in 2011, when Statham wasn’t the one-man box office pull he is now. It cost around $40 million and grossed about $76.3 million worldwide, including roughly $29.1 million domestically and $47.2 million internationally, so it wasn’t a massive profit once marketing etc. was factored in, but it certainly washed its face financially. The most important thing, though, is that it was successful enough is that it eventually got a sequel, Mechanic: Resurrection, in 2016. That movie actually outgrossed the original, making around $125.7 million worldwide, mostly thanks to international audiences.
Fifteen years later, The Mechanic still scratches a very specific itch, and it’s streaming now on Paramount+.
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Richard Wenk, Lewis John Carlino