He’ll have to put his best foot forward in a profession he almost entirely left behind some years back, but Bishop isn’t one to be pushed around easily. But he’s also on the clock, and constantly under surveillance. It’s obviously a match made in heaven, and it doesn’t take long (like, maybe two scenes) before Arthur and Gina are deeply, madly in love.īut there’s one person who wants to keep the recent happy couple apart: Crain ( Sam Hazeldine), a bland sadist who kidnaps Gina and forces Bishop to perform three elaborate kills if he ever wants to see his girlfriend alive. She’s a school teacher in Cambodia he’s a lethal assassin known for making elaborate kills look like public accidents. Never one to go out easily, he cleans up his competition and heads straight towards a secluded Thailand beach, where he soon falls for Gina ( Jessica Alba). Living quietly in Rio de Janeiro, Bishop is forced back into action when his isolation is compromised and more people want him dead. It’s considered a sequel to 2011’s largely-forgotten “ The Mechanic,” but - much like the pre- Daniel Craig era Bond films - the only thing that really carries over is our titular problem fixer, Arthur Bishop ( Jason Statham). READ MORE: Exclusive: Disaster Arrives In A Big Way In Clip From ‘The Wave’ It’s sillier and more free-wheeling than you’d initially expect, but it never quite finds a sense of drive to give it purpose. But that’s what makes its rather dull presentation fairly disheartening. It has an almost gleeful disregard to believability when jumping between global set pieces and exotic locales. The plot structure can best be described as flexible.
There’s not a lot happening upstairs, but Gansel and screenwriters Philip Shelby and Tony Mosher are at least willing to keep things loose.
A bag of hammers might provoke more intellectual discussion than the latest from German director Dennis Gansel (“ The Wave”). “ Mechanic: Resurrection” is a dumb movie.