The Mechanic
Directed by Simon West
Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of assassins, Bishop may be the best in the business - with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. When Harry McKenna, his close friend and mentor, is murdered, Harry's son comes to him with vengeance in his heart and a desire to learn Bishop's trade, signaling… From TMDB
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The film grossed $11.4 million on its opening weekend in the U.S. and Canada. It ended with a North American gross of $29.1 million and $47.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $76.3 million. The Mechanic received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 54%, based on 165 reviews, with a rating average of 5.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Jason Statham and Ben Foster turn in enjoyable performances, but this superficial remake betrays them with mind-numbing violence and action thriller cliches." On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received…
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60 of 142 · most liked firstIf you think about it, Jason Statham’s entire movie career is just an ex-military guy doing entry level jobs. The Beekeeper. The Mechanic. The Locksmith. The Bank Job. It’s a commentary on the challenges of veterans transitioning into civilian life.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Mechanic (1972) Directed by Michael Winner
neutral · AI labelView post →Conclusion: I'll be shocked if there is no Beekeeper 2. Ending (no spoiler) was very much in the vein of The Mechanic redo (sidenote: another movie that cast him with noted A-list actors; Irons in this, Donald Sutherland in that one).
neutral · AI labelView post →Today on @thedigitalbits.bsky.social website – Criterion is releasing a 10-Film Wes Anderson #4K Collection, plus Last of Us: S2, Sinners, The Mechanic, more Gerry Anderson TV classics from Imprint & more! thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-t...
neutral · AI labelView post →Because the issue of lighting is coming up again with regard to the first film, here's some helpful behind-the-scenes talk about it from the Mechanic & World book I translated. I think people forget you can't see in a blackout. Throw in smoke/dust, and that amplifies things.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun fact: the night Saturday Night Live premiered, NBC ran the Charles Bronson film THE MECHANIC.
neutral · AI labelView post →I have this theory that you can make more or less the exact same movie with Jason Statham with any profession name -The Mechanic -The Beekeeper -The Transporter -The Toll Collector -The Podiatrist I'm only making two of those up.
neutral · AI labelView post →Jason Statham really needs to make a Klumps meets the Expendables movie that teams up the Transporter, the Beekeeper, Hobbes, Cranked guy, Working Man, The Mechanic, and scuba-Statham from The Meg.
neutral · AI labelView post →Trades despriptions should look into Jason Statham. The Mechanic films don't tell you much about being a mechanic, The Beekeeper reveals little about beekeeping, and A Working Man won't equip you for life on a construction site. Statham can do better than this 2/5. film-authority.com/2025/03/27/a...
negative · AI labelView post →A while back I watched some action movie that had a classical song I liked, but I forgot what movie it was so I could't find the song. Fast forward to today, I'm watching The Mechanic and realize this is the movie. The song is Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Flat by Schubert. Case closed.
neutral · AI labelView post →@auberon.bsky.social in the remake of the film “The Mechanic” with Donald Sutherland he had a pearl handled 45 with the inscription. “AMAT VICTORIA CURAM” which translates to “Victory Loves Preparation”. If I ever invest in a pistol I’d like to have it engraved with this to commemorate him. 😉💯🤔
neutral · AI labelView post →It's #LetterboxdFriday so here's my #LastFourWatched. Obvious recommend is Demolition Man, but the Mechanic was a little more introspective than I thought it would be. The opening was pretty good. So if you want to stretch your watchlist, that's a fine way to go.
positive · AI labelView post →I'm on a streak for watching movies like I've not been for a long time. I enjoy that. So tonight I'm starting with The Mechanic (Kalter Hauch). Planning for at least one more. #NowWatching #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok, after watching Michael Winner's debut film, I need one more team-up with Bronson. I gotta jump to present day, tho. #NowWatching The Mechanic (1972) Dir. Michael Winner #Filmsky #cinema #Bronson
neutral · AI labelView post →A Working Man 2025 Jason Statham as Jason Statham in Jason Statham film. This is not rewatchable bollocks like The Mechanic or actually quite good like Wrath Of Man. It’s cliched and quite dull. Bits of John Wick, bits of Taken, and a lot from these types of ‘I thought I was out’ movies
negative · AI labelView post →Improve a movie title by adding "With Big Naturals" The Mechanic With Big Naturals
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching THE MECHANIC (1972) and Jill Ireland's film poster collection is seriously impressive.
neutral · AI labelView post →A friend and I watched it last weekend. Everything we wanted from a Jason Statham film. He fights some people. He shoots some people. There are car chases. We then watched ‘The Mechanic’. A great night.
positive · AI labelView post →Forget to say I watched the Mechanic: resurrection last night. Wow that was a rough watch. Disappointing considering how much I enjoyed the first mechanic movie. Pacing was bad. Very low budget special effects for the cast it had. Plot was super meh. Idk
negative · AI labelView post →Week 5 for #zombiesteve52 - Anti Hero (A film where the main character is morally ambiguous or a villain) - Going with the same one @mda4life.bsky.social chose, The Mechanic, so thanks man!
neutral · AI labelView post →The Mechanic (1972) #zombiesteve52 Week 5: Anti Hero (A film where the main character is morally ambiguous or a villain) Bronson plays a professional hitman who treats murder like an art form. He’s calm, meticulous, and absolutely lethal. One of his most morally complex roles.
neutral · AI labelView post →A Working Man appears to be a Jason Statham movie that imagines what the Beekeeper or the Transporter or the Mechanic would have gotten up to if they didn't keep bees or transport or work on cars
neutral · AI labelView post →Thinking THE MECHANIC (1972) would have been an entirely different film if the plain white silicon squishy thing Charles Bronson squeezes to relieve stress & maintain his manly grip had been more like the furry blue squeezy ball with eyes, ears & teeth I got from Hema this week.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Mechanic is a solid and mean little hitman film from Michael Winner that I very much dug. 🎥 boxd.it/6FBVZB 🎥 #Filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →It was literally (presumably product placement) in a movie in TV last night: “The Mechanic”. The Jason Statham character leaves a bottle of CS with the guy who watches his tinny. No idea if that was meant to be a nautical connection joke as well as advertising.. 🤷🏾
neutral · AI labelView post →The Mechanic (1972) I have something in the pipeline about this movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Favorite first-time watches June 2026: - BULLET IN THE HEAD - CORRUPTION (1983) - DOUBLE INDEMNITY - FUTURE HUNTERS - GORDON'S WAR - IRON LUNG - NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE - ROPE - SAFE (2012) - THE MECHANIC (1972)
neutral · AI labelView post →Some yrs back I was talking to a drunk guy abt how much I dislike reboots. He started talking abt the Jason Statham movie THE MECHANIC, he thought it was a great & original idea I had to break it to him that it's a reboot & the original is & forever light years better. Plus, the OG is a killer film
positive · AI labelView post →favorite film for each year of the '70s from someone who hasn't watched much 70s cinema: 1970: M*A*S*H 1971: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1972: The Mechanic 1973: Enter the Dragon 1974: Young Frankenstein 1975: Jaws 1976: Rocky 1977: Star Wars 1978: Superman 1979: Alien
neutral · AI labelView post →Daily Top 5 Films on Paramount+ at the end of Tuesday, May 12, 2026 1. Top Gun: Maverick 2. Primate 3. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 4. The Mechanic 5. PAW Patrol: Air Rescue #TopGunMaverick #ParamountPlus
neutral · AI labelView post →The Mechanic is a brilliant film. If you haven’t already, track it down.
unlabelledView post →It’s a cool, unhurried thriller that rewards patience with style and precision. My ★★★½ review of The Mechanic on Letterboxd boxd.it/bo1tnJ #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Have any of you seen THE MECHANIC (2011), a movie I watch for Ben Foster wandering around being a horrible nightmare with a disturbingly sexy black eye. Anyway in the movie there's a brief sequence where he's sitting in a bar with open cuts on his face and a woman sits down next to him and says
unlabelledView post →in 1971 he stared in a Movie...Two street racers—the Driver and the Mechanic—live on the road in their highly modified, primer-gray 1955 Chevrolet 150 two-door sedan drag car, drifting from town to town and earning income by challenging locals to impromptu races.
unlabelledView post →Didn't pay much attention to THE MECHANIC starring Jason Statham this afternoon as I wrote my film column but I will say that the subplot where Ben Foster has to kill a big gay villain must be a low point for cinema. At one point he goes, "You want me to kill him or rape him?", and that's a joke
unlabelledView post →What should Jason Statham’s next movie character profession be after The Transporter, The Mechanic, and The Beekeeper?
unlabelledView post →For everyone watching Dare Devil or Echo, I give you Vincent D'Onofrio as "Thor" the Mechanic in the 1987 film, Adventures in Babysitting. (And if you forgot about that film, you should go watch it. It's fantastic.
unlabelledView post →Watching my first Statham movie. The Mechanic.
unlabelledView post →Amazingly there is a trailer for a very similar looking film called THE BRICKLAYER With Statham's earlier THE MECHANIC, are we seeing the birth of the Some Jobs Cinematic Universe? www.youtube.com/watch?v=zC96...
unlabelledView post →That scene in Mad Max (1979) where The Goose and The Mechanic show Max the "New" V8 Pursuit Special might be the best movie ever made.
unlabelledView post →Netflix is really not helping with alternative entertainment to the World Cup. I have watched The Mechanic 2 featuring Jason Statham. Also Jessica Alba and Lucy Liu, who were both clearly extremely desperate for money. It is a very, very bad film, there was no dignity in it.
unlabelledView post →Daily Top 5 Films on Paramount+ at the end of Monday, May 11, 2026 1. Top Gun: Maverick 2. Primate 3. The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 4. The Mechanic 5. Mother's Day #TopGunMaverick #ParamountPlus
unlabelledView post →2. THE MECHANIC Remake of the Charles Bronson classic, with restrained action that supports (rather than overwhelems) the crime-thriller atmosphere.
unlabelledView post →The Mechanic 1972 is today's film on my Action/Adventure youtu.be/9F9d5NH8yHo An ageing hitman befriends a young man who wants to be a professional killer. Eventually it becomes clear that someone has betrayed them Please subscribe new Films all the time. Please buy the physical media if you can
unlabelledView post →Ah Ah.. I know If you want to avoid spreading yourself too thin and stick to your theme, you should watch The Mechanic Resurrection with Tommy Lee Jones wardrobe as well (and a pretty fun silly action movie for Statham as well)
unlabelledView post →We're in the same handbasket! I may have everything he's ever done either on my Plex server or archived next to it. I loved him in LS&2SB, Snatch, The Mechanic, The MEG--OMGLOL--every one-word titled movie he's ever been in. LOVE HIM.
unlabelledView post →Someone once said that Jason Statham film titles are just the names of occupations. The Transporter The Mechanic The Beekeeper Now the writers are like, “Eff it. He’s ’A Working Man’.”
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching THE MECHANIC in which no cars will be fixed. Also gonna have to do a tier list of Statham movie posters based on what awkwardly dynamic pose he’s in lol
unlabelledView post →It was a while before I realized he had this whole cool 70s film career before Airwolf. In fact I’ve got The Mechanic cued up…
unlabelledView post →3. Killer Elite Its your standard Jason Statham movie where he fights SAS members, Arabian bodyguards, and the hitman world to save Robert DeNiro while being hired to assassinate 3 SAS Agents. Reminds me a bit of The Mechanic. Still a fun movie.
unlabelledView post →Boxing Day film #3: The Mechanic
unlabelledView post →netflix should be using the enormous platform of broadcasting NFL games to warn dads that the Jason Statham movie The Mechanic (2011) is leaving the streaming service on December 31
unlabelledView post →The Mechanic is another Jason Statham film that could be a lot better than it is, but it's passable enough. 🎥 boxd.it/5ZC2F1 🎥
unlabelledView post →In particular the ones where the rogue assassin is an impossibly hot woman nearly always have the scene in which she finds out that her kindly paternal mentor figure is the one who’s sold her out… Oh yes, The Mechanic with Jason Statham. Remake of an old Charles Bronson movie and that plot AGAIN.
unlabelledView post →I'm watching Working Man, which was the film I was thinking of the other day when I watched The Mechanic
unlabelledView post →Film #260 of 2026 The Mechanic (1972) Charles Bronson plays a hitman who takes on a protoge. I've become kind of obsessed with Bronson's output lately.
unlabelledView post →I think John Wick and another movie called The Mechanic but I don’t remember if it had stealth moments I think John Wick did but I could be wrong
unlabelledView post →Winner was a far better director than people give credit. Admittedly he didn't help himself churning out a lot of exploitation films later in his career. But I guess he figured he wasn't likely to get a major gig in Hollywood. The Mechanic is a really well made movie.
unlabelledView post →He’s good in a lot of things - The Meg and Operation: Fortune (which happens to be another Ritchie film). I also liked The Mechanic and the first Transporter (sequels were fun, but…). He’s just not often given the opportunity for a lot of range, if any at all.
unlabelledView post →James Taylor and Dennis Wilson starred in the cult movie TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (1971) as "The Driver" and "The Mechanic", respectively, also starring Warren Oates (G.T.O.) and Laurie Bird (The Girl).
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