Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)

Mechanic: Resurrection: Directed by Dennis Gansel. With Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Yeoh. Bishop’s most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life in order to make him complete three impossible assassinations and make them look like accidents.

“Judged on any measure of film acumen, Mechanic: Resurrection may garner a 3 or 4 stars out of 10. But because it has Statham*, Alba* u0026amp; Michelle Yeo*? Thats three more stars + another star because it has Statham, Alba u0026amp; Michell Yeoh. Just wanted to clarify my rating.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn the vein of the Ringo Lam masterpiece… the one with JCVD… and the hot blond actress… where he has a twin, but NOT Double Impact… damn… … MAXIMUM RISK!!! (always forget that oneu0026#39;s name) While nowhere near as good as Maximum Risk, Mechanic: Resurrection has that same kind of feel. Excellent action scenes strung together with a love interest who is involved with the wrong people. Where as Maximum Risk maintains a consistent style and pace throughout every scene, Mechanic:Resurrection is comically bad in terms of writing, acting – really anything involving the story. Luckily the action scenes do sparkle, and have a really fun brutality. The action also escalates from the beginning to the last scene, which is nice – many half assed action movies place the best action scenes early or in the middle, when they really should follow this model of growing intensity throughout the movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhat should not be followed is the script written by someone who played a whole lot of Metal Gear Solid, Hit-man, or any of a number of stealth/tactical espionage video games. There is a really artificial feel to a great deal of this movie, and while I fully recommend video games borrow content from movies… Iu0026#39;m not so sure going the other way around is such a good idea. Iu0026#39;m sure many people would find this movie unwatchable, but not me…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBecause it has Statham, Alba u0026amp; Michelle Yeoh.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt also has Tommy Lee Jones, but I wonu0026#39;t hold that against the movie – 7 out of 10”