This new version of the brilliant Charles Bronson original has some of that movie's scenes more or less copied into its plot, but without knowing its a remake, you'd be forgiven for thinking you were watching Transporter 4.
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Jason Statham is Arthur Bishop, a cold blooded hit-man who makes assassination attempts look like accidents and circumstance. But to look at Statham strutting around fit and tough as nails, he could be playing Frank Martin or Chev Chelios. As far as Action Movie Star is concerned, Hollywood belongs to Statham. But the plot doesn't offer anything new, and Ben Foster struggles to make something of his psycho role despite being great in movies like Hostage and the recent remake of The 3:10 To Yuma.

what is good about The Mechanic remake is the action and fight sequences, they are entertaining and thrilling, but afterwards you come away from the cinema with a kind of Seen It All Before attitude. Would Hollywood please stop making rehashes of classic originals?

28 January 2011 | by CalDexter (scotland)