There are only a few certainties on the earth proper now, however Jason Statham and his murderer thriller The Mechanic making a daily look on streaming each time it shifts to a brand new platform is one among them. Now on 
Paramount+, the British motion man is within the High 10 along with his 2011 remake of Charles Bronson’s 1972 cult basic, as if everybody hasn’t seen it a thousand instances – however what’s one other spherical amongst Statham followers.
After virtually 15 years since its launch, Con Air director Simon West delivered a good 93-minute motion thriller that simply appears to discover a new viewers wherever it seems within the streaming multi-platform-verse. Statham performs Arthur Bishop, a “mechanic” whose specialty is making hits appear like accidents. After being taked with taking out his outdated mentor Harry (Donald Sutherland), Bishop takes Harry’s son Steve (Ben Foster) beneath his wing. This results in the sort of story that has change into Statham’s staple, with revenge, an ethical twist, and loads of frantic and brutal punch-ups and gun fights to maintain motion followers glad.
However it wouldn’t be a real Statham basic if it didn’t include a divisive Rotten Tomatoes rating, and it couldn’t be any extra break up. Critic critiques landed the movie a 54% Tomatometer rating, and audiences gave it a 51% ranking. For anybody else, this may very well be a disappointing set of scores, however for followers, it simply implies that The Mechanic delivers the sort of motion clichés that everybody loves, and that comes with a heat, cozy feeling of being spattered with blood from one of many many lifeless dangerous guys of which there are loads.
The Mechanic was not an enormous field workplace hit, incomes $76.3 million from its $40 million funds, nevertheless it was sufficient to safe Statham an much more over-the-top (and extra panned) sequel, which itself has change into a frequent flier on the streaming charts.
Jason Statham Is an Unavoidable Presence on Streaming
There are clearly many various streaming choices round nowadays, however wherever you scroll on your night’s leisure there’s a good likelihood that you’ll move a picture of Statham’s grimacing face as he blasts his weapons at somebody off the sting of the image.
Whereas lots of the actor’s older motion pictures, together with, every so often, The Mechanic and its sequel, are common performers on free streaming platforms corresponding to Tubi, they nonetheless make waves when being added to different streamer’s libraries corresponding to Netflix or Prime Video.
Simply to show a degree, the final week has seen Statham take over the Prime Video chart with at least three motion pictures occupying areas across the prime finish of the streamer’s hottest motion pictures. This has included A Working Man and Wrath of Man at primary and two positions, respectively, whereas his big hit, The Beekeeper has additionally been buzzing across the center of the chart. In brief, Jason Statham is like some sort of streaming catnip, and there’s no manner of avoiding his pull.
The Mechanic
- Launch Date
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January 28, 2011
- Runtime
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93 Minutes
