January 28 - The Mechanic (2011)

Today’s action movie has a scene that happens today – January 28. I hope you like this film and watch it tonight.

THE MECHANIC                           

Arthur Bishop is a contract hitman who was mentored by Harry McKenna. Bishop is told by Dean, the head of the organization that hires and pays the hitmen that he needs to kill McKenna, who betrayed a hit that was set in Cape Town to the authorities. Bishop reluctantly takes the job and kills Harry. Bishop meets Harry’s son, Steve and starts to train him as a hitman. Steve carries out an assignment, but poorly. Together Bishop and Steve kill a cult leader. Bishop sees one of the hitmen supposedly killed in the Cape Town job and learns Dean was the one who actually betrayed the hit. Bishop kills the hitmen Dean sends to kill him.  Steve finds his dad’s gun at Bishop’s house and realizes Bishop killed his father. Bishop and Steve together manage to kill Dean. On January 28, 2011 Steve sets off a bomb at a gas station while Bishop sits in his truck. Returning to Bishop’s house Steve takes the 1966 Jaguar Bishop had been restoring. Then Steve sees a note that says if he’s reading this he’s dead and the car blows up. Bishop actually avoided the bomb at the gas station and drives away. [1:19:31 to 1:26:24]

Plenty of action here.  Good at building suspense. Keeps those plot twists coming.  But you know I like it because it was released on the day of the gas station explosion.   

Date given at 1:25:45 on the gas station security cameras. 

Producers - Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, David Winkler and William Chartoff

Director - Simon West

Screenplay - Lewis John Carlino and Richard Wenk

Runtime – 1 hour 33 minutes

Released – January 28, 2011

Starring -  

Jason Statham as Arthur Bishop

Ben Foster as Steve McKenna

Tony Goldwyn as Dean Sanderson

Donald Sutherland as Harry McKenna

John McConnell as Andrew Vaughn

Mini Andén as Sarah

Stuart Greer as Ralph