The Mechanic
by Michael Winner
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Actor: Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Jill Ireland, Keenan Wynn, Linda RidgewayDirector: Michael Winner
Brand: BRONSON,CHARLES
Cinematographer: Richard H. Kline
Cinematographer: Robert Paynter
Editor: Frederick Wilson
Producer: Henry Gellis
Producer: Irwin Winkler
Producer: Robert Chartoff
Writer: Lewis John Carlino
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 99 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-08
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Mechanic
Movie Review: Watch Charles Bronson in his best action role!
Summary: 5 Stars
Since the sixties, most of the movies in which I have watched Charles Bronson, he was always the tough guy...gritty man of action...macho man (The Great Escape, Magnificent Seven, Chato's Land, Mr Majestyck, Death Wish I to IV, Family of Cops I to III, Telefon, Murphy's Law, Red Sun, 10 to Midnight, The Evil That Men Do...) except for one, The Sandpiper, in which he played a painter, opposite Richard Burton & Elizabeth Taylor. I have always enjoyed watching his movies.
I consider this particular one as the best of his action movies.
The storyline is pretty straight-forward, except for an unexpected twist at the end: A contract hit-man, seemingly about to retire, took on a cocky young man as protege, who eventually turned the table on the master.
Charles Bronson, played the contract hit-man (hence, the name, The Mechanic), Arthur Bishop. He was a loner but had expensive tastes. He worked for a sinister group known only as The Organisation, which issued all the contract hits. [It so happened that all the hits were criminals.] He took on Steve McKenna (played by Jan-Michael Vincent) as his protege. His mind was cold as ice & apparently twisted. They screwed up one hit assignment while working together, after which The Organisation, was upset & put out a contract on Bishop. Apparently, McKenna took up the contract. The rest of the movie was a battle of wits among the two hitmen.
What struck me most about the movie was the quiet characteristion of a contract hit during the first fifteen minutes or so. No dialogue at all,...only a very sober music score. Bishop studied the habits, life-style & schedule of his target, with meticulous observation & detailed planning. Thereafter, the movie went on to show Bishop, working with McKenna, going after different targets - each with different circumstances & each executed differently...ruthlessly, of course. The hot-pursuit action sequences - there were many of them - in the movie were beautifully orchestrated,...really exciting, especially the motor-cycle chase segment.
There seemed to be one puzzling part in the movie: McKenna happened to be the son of one of Bishop's hit victims. Bishop knew McKenna's father, Big Harry (played by Keenan Wynn) since he was a kid. In fact, Big Harry was an associate of Bishop's own father, who also happened to be a founding father of The Organisation. I can only conclude this way: hitmen have certainly to be cold-blooded animals. Not only that, they have to be calculatingly efficient in their work.
The last fifteen minutes of the movie were quite unexpected. I would have preferred a totally different outcome. Go & watch this movie to find out what I meant.
On the whole, I find The Mechanic, to be an intelligent action thriller, with Charles Bronson in his best action role!
Summary of The Mechanic
A clever hired assassin suffering from remorse & anxiety finds himself the object of another assassin; he must try to outsmart his hunter.Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: PG
Release Date: 8-OCT-2002
Media Type: DVD
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