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The Mechanic
Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of assassins, Bishop may be the best in the business - with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. When Harry McKenna, his close friend and mentor, is murdered, Harry's son comes to him with vengeance in his heart and a desire to learn Bishop's trade, signaling the birth of a deadly partnership.
2011 · Directed by Simon West · 93 min · Action · Thriller · Crime · Screenplay in the scene database · 20 frames
Tagline
Someone has to fix the problems.
Plot
Hitman Arthur Bishop sneaks into the home of a Colombian cartel boss and drowns him in his own pool. Upon returning home to Louisiana, he meets with his friend and mentor Harry McKenna.
Bishop is assigned by his employer Dean to kill Harry. Dean says this is due to a failed mission in South Africa, in which his team of assassins were killed; since the mission was known only to Dean and Harry, Dean attributes the failure of the mission to Harry ratting them out to the South African police, making him a threat. Bishop reluctantly kills Harry and makes it look like a carjacking. At Harry's funeral, Bishop meets Harry's estranged son Steve, whom he later stops from killing another carjacker in revenge.
Steve asks Bishop to train him as a hitman; Bishop thus takes him under his wing and gives Steve his next contract, fellow assassin Burke. He also brings Steve to another contract killing to observe. Ignoring Bishop's instructions to overdose Burke with Rohypnol, Steve goes with him to his house and attempts to strangle the much larger man with a belt, imitating Bishop's last killing. He barely manages to kill Burke after a lengthy fight. Dean expresses disapproval of Bishop using Steve, which violates the rules of the contract.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Richard Wenk, Lewis John Carlino
- Cinematography: Eric Schmidt
- Edited by: Todd E. Miller, T.G. Herrington
- Music: Mark Isham
- Production design: Richard Lassalle
- Produced by: William Chartoff, René Besson, David Winkler
Cast
- Jason Statham as Arthur Bishop
- Ben Foster as Steve McKenna
- Donald Sutherland as Harry McKenna
- Mini Anden as Sara
- Tony Goldwyn as Dean Sanderson
- Christa Campbell as Kelly
- Katarzyna Wolejnio as Maria
- Jeff Chase as Burke
- Eddie J. Fernandez as Lara's Guard
- John McConnell as Vaughn
Production
- Country: United States of America, Germany
- Language: English
- Studios: CBS Films, Millennium Media, Nu Image Entertainment, Winkler Films
- Budget: $40,000,000
- Box office: $51,070,807
- Themes: chicago, illinois, research, martial arts, assassin, prostitute, airport, mentor, new orleans, louisiana, training, car crash
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