Mechanic: Resurrection

Mechanic: Resurrection
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Dennis Gansel
Produced by	John Thompson Robert Earl David Winkler William Chartoff
Written by	Philip Shelby Tony Mosher
Story by	Brian Pittman Philip Shelby
Based on	Characters by Lewis John Carlino Richard Wenk
Starring	Jason Statham Jessica Alba Tommy Lee Jones Michelle Yeoh Sam Hazeldine Rhatha Phongam Natalie Burn
Music by	Mark Isham
Cinematography	Daniel Gottschalk
Edited by	Michael Duthie Todd E. Miller Ueli Christen
Production company	Davis Films Chartoff-Winkler Productions Millennium Films
Distributed by	Summit Entertainment
Release dates	August 22, 2016 (2016-08-22) (ArcLight Hollywood) August 26, 2016 (2016-08-26) (United States)
Running time	98 minutes[1]
Country	United States France
Language	English
Budget	$40 million[2]
Box office	$125.2 million[1]

Mechanic: Resurrection is a 2016 French–American^[3] action thriller film directed by Dennis Gansel. It is written by Philip Shelby and Tony Mosher from a story by Shelby and Brian Pittman. It is the sequel to the 2011 film The Mechanic, which was a remake of the 1972 film of the same name. The film stars Jason Statham, Tommy Lee Jones, Jessica Alba and Michelle Yeoh.

Mechanic: Resurrection premiered in Hollywood on August 22, 2016 and was theatrically released in the United States on August 26, 2016. It received negative reviews, and grossed $125.2 million worldwide.

Plot

After faking his death, Arthur Bishop has been living quietly in Rio de Janeiro with the name Santos. He is approached by a woman, Renee Tran, who states that her employer wishes for Bishop to kill three targets and stage them as accidents. Bishop takes a picture of her and fights off her mercenaries before escaping. Bishop goes to Thailand and takes shelter at the beach house of his friend, Mae. He investigates the woman and learns that her employer is a man named Riah Crain.

An attractive young woman named Gina Thorne arrives at the shore and, when she asks Mae for some first aid items, Mae notices a split lip and bruising on her arm that suggest she is being treated badly. That evening, Mae notices the young woman being attacked in her boat and convinces Bishop to go out to help. He boards the boat, but his attempts to warn off the man go unheeded and in the ensuing altercation the man falls, hits his head on a piece of the boat's equipment and is killed. Mae arrives, to take Gina to shore, and Bishop quickly explores the ship for clues before setting fire to it to cover his tracks. Bishop learns that the young lady is called Gina, and is working for Crain and confronts her, who reveals that she was working in a children's shelter in Cambodia and Crain threatened those children and forced her to arrive at Bishop’s location. Bishop deduces that Crain’s plan was to make him fall for her before she is kidnapped and thus Bishop will be forced to accept the mission. Later, Bishop notices Crain’s operatives watching him and gets intimate with Thorne. He reveals to her that he and Crain were sold to a gangster when they were orphan children. They were trained as warriors until Bishop escaped. Bishop and Thorne end up having sex before they are both abducted the next morning. Bishop is brought to Crain, who gives the identities of the three targets.

The first target of Bishop is a warlord named Krill, who is incarcerated in a Malaysian prison. Bishop travels to Malaysia and gets himself imprisoned to access Krill. Bishop gains Krill’s trust by killing a man already planning on killing Krill. Bishop meets with Krill and kills him and Bishop escapes the prison with the help of Crain's operatives.

Bishop is informed that he only has 36 hours to kill the next target, Adrian Cook, who runs an underage trafficking ring in Sydney, Australia. Cook goes for a swim in his glass pool outside his high-rise apartment. Bishop breaks the glass, causing the water to spill out with Cook plummeting to his death. Once again, Bishop makes a clean getaway.

Bishop finds the boat where Thorne is held and attempts to save her, but fails. He is informed that he has 24 hours to kill the last target, Max Adams, who is an arms dealer in Bulgaria. Adams and Bishop decide to work together against Crain. Bishop fakes Adams’ death and tells Crain that the job is done. They arrange a meeting; but Crain is revealed to be planning to have Bishop killed.

Bishop kills Crain’s men before heading toward Crain's boat, where he fights more mercenaries before getting to Crain. Bishop finds Thorne, and they discover that Crain has the boat rigged to explode. Bishop puts Thorne in an underwater escape chamber pod to let her escape and goes to find Crain and defeats him in hand to hand combat. Bishop leaves Crain chained with an anchor chain to the boat and escapes moments before the boat explodes, killing Crain. Thorne is told that there have been no survivors.

Thorne returns to Cambodia to continue her work. She is surprised when Bishop shows up. The last scene shows Max Adams reviewing security footage, which shows Bishop escaping in another escape chamber from Crain's boat. Adams deletes the video to fake Bishop's death once more.

Cast

• Jason Statham as Arthur Bishop
• Jessica Alba as Gina Thorne
• Tommy Lee Jones as Max Adams
• Michelle Yeoh as Mae
• Sam Hazeldine as Riah Crain
• John Cenatiempo as Jeremy
• Toby Eddington as Adrian Cook
• Femi Elufowoju as Krill
• Anteo Quintavalle as Frank
• Rhatha Phongam as Courier/Renee Tran
• Natalie Burn as Natalie Stone

Production

On February 4, 2015, Natalie Burn was added to the cast of the film.^[4]

Filming

Filming began on November 4, 2014 in Bangkok, Thailand.^[5] Filming also took place in Bulgaria; George Town, Penang; Brazil; and Sydney, Australia.

Release

On November 7, 2014, Lionsgate set the film for a January 22, 2016 release.^[6] The film was later moved back to April 15, 2016, and on August 3, 2015, the release was again delayed until August 26, 2016.^[7]

Box office

As of October 23, 2016, Mechanic: Resurrection has grossed $21.2 million in North America and $104 million in other territories for a worldwide total of 125.2 million.^[1]

The film was released in the United States and Canada on August 26, 2016 and was projected to open to $6–8 million from 2,258 theaters.^[8] It grossed $2.6 million on its first day and $7.5 million in its opening weekend, finishing 5th at the box office.^[9]

In China, the film made $24.3 million in opening weekend.^[10] China was the largest territory for the film, with a total gross of $49.2 million.^[11]

Critical response

The film received negative reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 26%, based on 46 reviews, with an average rating of 4.2/10.^[12] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score of 38 out of 100, based on 15 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".^[13] On CinemaScore, audiences gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.^[14]

Dave Robinson of outlet Crash Landed gave the film 2 stars (out of 5), deriding it for "suffering from multiple personality disorder" a "cliché story" and "coming off as campy" and "unintentionally hilarious", whilst praising the film for its "great looking and varied locations".^[15]

References

External links

• Official website
• Mechanic: Resurrection at the Internet Movie Database
• Mechanic: Resurrection at Rotten Tomatoes