Jason Statham has a monopoly on the action movie market because he seems to be in every single one of them and seems to play the same character every time. The film is not really a sequel to the mechanic remake in which he also played so there is no need to having seen that one - it works stand alone. Mechanic Resurrection is as about cliché as action movies get: a bad guy kidnaps Statham's girlfriend so he has to do some assassinations in interesting ways on far away locations. The plot is full of holes (you really have to stop thinking if things in this movie would work or be possible in real life or you'll get really annoyed by this flick) and the dialogue is cookie cutter stuff. The film was made on a shoestring budget and shot mostly in Bulgaria with the 1134 VFX shots also done by a Bulgarian company...and you can tell coz when for example a boat blows up they just composited the explosion and flames onto it, the boat doesn't move an inch and there is no debris flying around. A lot of scenes where shot on a blue-screen stage and you can easily tell which ones coz they have this overly bright 'studio lighting' look. The fight scenes are descent but like I said nothing you haven't seen before in another Statham film. So conclusion: you won't see anything you haven't seen before here and the film is mediocre at best. You won't be bored but this is definitely NOT a must see by any stretch of the imagination.
Review of Mechanic: Resurrection
