Action Packed
People get punched, their are explosions
B Movie
If nothing else this movie can be enjoyed as an action movie from yesteryear
Rotten Tomatoes 24% Cinemascore: B+
Look, nobody thought Mechanic: Resurrection was going to be great on release. For nothing else this movie can be enjoyed as an action fix or as one of those classic B movies you watch because its so mediocre. However. when it comes to my experience, I found no enjoyment outside of laughing at how bad this movie was sometimes.
Mechanic: Resurrection desperately wants to be the thinking mans action splurge, but it consistently shoots itself in the foot. For example: the villain main plan to lure Arthur Bishop (Statham) out of hiding is to have him fall in love with an agent he's blackmailing (Alba) so that he can kidnap her and use him as leverage against him. Statham, being the badass this film says he is, catches on to this and exposes the whole plan before he can fall for her. And now what happens after this unexpected turn? Well what do you think, he falls for her anyway, she gets kidnapped and now you have your action set up. I'm not exaggerating it's that forced.
Mechanic: Resurrection is just plain silly. Its action is over the top, its characters are vomiting cliches and for a good many people this will be exactly what they want. I don't hate this movie but I'm not a person who likes shutting their brain off to enjoy something. I want to engage in a movie, buy into it's world or have a discussion along with it. I hope this movie makes its money back though, otherwise unless Statham finds another niche (comedy prehaps?), he may go the way of the action B movie with it.
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