Okay, about 2 months back I was watching an old ass Charles Bronson movie. I was in the mood for cold hearted vicious murdering muthafucka main character type of movie. The movie was made in the 70's and was a bit slow but it was legitimately good. Charles played a hit man which is called a mechanic(because he fixes problems).
In the middle of watching this movie I was wondering why Hollywood hadn't done a remake of this movie because the shit was dope. Exactly 2 days later I catch the trailer for the remake on television. I seen Jason Statham(of Snatch, Crank, Death Race) in it and it looked to have a bit more action than the original. Of course that meant more explosions and adrenaline rushing music which made me a bit weary. I was hoping they didn't slack on the script and try and compensate with a bunch of hoopla bullshit. But I wanted to see it nonetheless.
So I watched it. The original was better.
In a nut shell the mechanic is a hitman hired by an agency who put coded ads in newspapers. He calls inquiring about the job, gets it, studies the target to a T, and executes the target. The kills must be done in a way that it looked natural and that there wasn't hit put out on the target. The mechanic(Statham) has a friendship with an agent of the company who hires him for work. This friend becomes a target he has to execute and he does. The target has a son, who is an asshole/fuck up, and the mechanic takes him under his wing. They do jobs together and the son eventually finds out who killed his father.
This is a typical action flick. It had the chance to be as good as the original but somewhere the film just wasn't gonna make it to that level.
The script was so so. The kills in this movie were above average though. It had some good kills but that was supplementary for whatever else was lacking.
This is good enough to watch but nothing spectacular.
My rating
3.25/5 stars
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