The new trailer for the 2011 remake of The Mechanic is here, and it’s loud and flashy and loud. Jason Statham plays a hitman mentored by Donald Sutherland. When Sutherland is murdered, Statham goes nuts with vengeance and starts hunting down those responsible. Scheduled for release on January 28th, this looks like some great early-in-the-year action cheese, and I can’t wait.
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Ben Foster is awesome. Jason Statham is awesome. That movie is awesome.
The fact that Jason Statham is English makes me prouder to be English myself than any other thing my wretched country has done.
One would hope that the remake team would put in the gay sex scene between the bombmaker and his protege that Michael Winner cut out from Lewis John Carlino's actual script… It was very clear to the writer that Charles Bronson and Jan Michael Vincent were to fuck. Check out The Celluloid Closet for more details.
The original movie was great with a ending that's perfect. Hopefully they won't drop the ball on it.
*If* foster is allowed some room to play with the character, this could be a lot of fun. This trailer gives me no evidence of that happening.
Why is it so hard to make good trash? I'd like this to be good, but look at it. No way. Yet there is comfort in knowing that Statham will ride again.
Is it me or does Statham's back pack just disappear when he jumps off the bridge? Unfinished effects work perhaps?
Statham's playing Buffy?
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