Additional information for The Mechanic, which has a domestic theatrical release set for January 28, 2011. The film is being distributed by CBS Films and has not yet been rated. The Mechanic has a total running time of 93 minutes.
18
Malaysia
R
USA
15
UK
MA
Australia
16
Ireland
18A
Canada
R-13
Philippines
M18
Singapore
18
South Korea
M/16
Portugal
16
Argentina
R15+
Japan
15
Norway
T
Italy
14
Peru
-12
France
93min
Το Μούτρο
Greece
Механик
Russia
Механикът
Bulgaria
A mestergyilkos
Hungary
Assassino à Preço Fixo
Brazil
El especialista
Peru
El mecánico
Argentina
Ha'mehonai
Israel
Le Flingueur
France
Le flingueur
Belgium
Le mécano
Canada
Ledeni ubojica
Croatia
Mecanicul
Romania
Mechanik: Prawo zemsty
Poland
Mechanikas
Lithuania
Mehanicar
Serbia
Mehanicharot
Republic of Macedonia
Professione assassino
Italy
The Mechanic - O Profissional
Portugal
To moutro
Greece
January 13, 2011
Russia
January 21, 2011
Estonia
January 25, 2011
USA
January 27, 2011
Greece
January 27, 2011
Israel
January 27, 2011
Kazakhstan
January 27, 2011
Kuwait
January 28, 2011
Bulgaria
January 28, 2011
Canada
January 28, 2011
Ireland
January 28, 2011
Lithuania
January 28, 2011
UK
January 28, 2011
USA
January 30, 2011
Iran
February 03, 2011
Ukraine
February 09, 2011
Philippines
February 17, 2011
Malaysia
February 17, 2011
Singapore
February 24, 2011
South Korea
February 25, 2011
Spain
March 17, 2011
Netherlands
March 17, 2011
Portugal
March 18, 2011
Brazil
March 24, 2011
Croatia
March 31, 2011
Argentina
April 03, 2011
France
April 06, 2011
Belgium
April 06, 2011
France
April 07, 2011
Germany
April 07, 2011
Hungary
April 22, 2011
Mexico
May 13, 2011
Norway
June 02, 2011
Peru
August 03, 2011
Sweden
August 13, 2011
Japan
August 24, 2011
Italy
September 15, 2011
Chile
October 14, 2011
Pakistan
Someone has to fix the problems.
The film opens following a man as his plane lands at a private hangar and he makes his way to his mansion with his armed guard escort. The man changes into his swimwear and proceeds to get into his private pool to have a swim. As he swims he notices his watch at the bottom of the pool and swims down to retrieve it. An unknown man grabs the swimming victim and holds him under until he dies. The assassin, Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham), then uses the chaos that follows to take a careful route out of the mansion and to a nearby river where he jumps in and makes his escape. Back home, Bishop meets with Harry McKenna (Donald Sutherland) whom Bishop regards as a friend and mentor figure. Harry pays Bishop for his work in Colombia and discuss Harry's son Steve McKenna (Ben Foster) before parting ways.Returning to his house, Bishop checks for his new contract only to find that the new contract is to kill Harry. Bishop phones his employer to verify if the contract is correct and upon confirmation he requests a face to face meeting. Bishop meets with Dean (Tony Goldwyn) who tells him about a failed mission in South Africa in which assassins of the agency Bishop works for were killed. Dean tells Bishop that only two people knew about the mission, Dean and Harry, and that Harry had received money in exchange for the contract details. Bishop reluctantly kills Harry and makes it look like a carjacking. At Harry's grave Bishop meets Harry's son, Steve. Steve tells Bishop that he's going to go out and find any carjacker and kill them as revenge. Bishop secretly follows Steve and interrupts him from killing a carjacker that he had run into. Bishop recognizes the raw potential of Steve and decides to train him as a "Mechanic". He adopts a chihuahua and instructs Steve to take the dog with him to a coffee shop each day at the same time. As Steve settles in to his routine Bishop escalates his training by taking him on a contract to show him what it's like. After Bishop strangles the man with a belt and stages it to look like an erotic asphyxiation accident, he shows Steve all the planning that went into that assassination.Bishop informs Steve that he has a contract of his own. The target is a mechanic for another agency named Burke (Jeff Chase), who frequents the same coffee shop Steve has been going to. Furthermore, Steve is told that Burke's only weaknesses are that he is interested in young men and small dogs (such as the chihuahua they adopted). Burke makes his move on Steve and invites him out to drinks. Bishop instructs Steve to slip a large dose of Rohypnol into Burke's drink to cause an overdose. Steve ignores this direction and instead goes with Burke to his apartment. As Burke begins to undress, Steve attempts to strangle him with a belt as he had seen Bishop do. They engage in a struggle, and Steve manages to kill Burke after much effort. Bishop is later contacted by Dean, who expresses his disapproval of Bishop's use of Steve for the Burke contract. Bishop replies that he was given that contract through Harry and not Dean. Angry at his indignation, Dean informs Bishop that he's on a short leash.
Bishop is given a new contract to kill the leader of a cult-like church, Andrew Vaughn (John McConnell). Steve and Bishop plan to inject Vaughn with adrenaline to simulate a heart attack, for which the paramedics would unknowingly administer a fatal second dose of adrenaline. As Bishop and Steve wait in the walls of Vaughn's hotel room, a doctor arrives and sets Vaughn up with an IV of ketamine. Realizing that the adrenaline overdose would be inhibited by the ketamine, they improvise and quickly suffocate him. When Vaughn is discovered by his guards, Bishop and Steve are found hiding in the walls of the hotel and are forced into a shoot-out with the guards. As the building is being evacuated, Bishop and Steve slip out and Bishop decides they should fly home separately.At the airport Bishop sees one of the men he was told was killed on the South African mission that Harry had allegedly sold out. During a confrontation with the man, Bishop realizes that his boss, Dean, had tricked him into killing Harry and that it had been Dean who engineered the failed South African mission to cover up his own shady dealings. Having been misled, Bishop begins to get things in order, only to be ambushed by a group of mechanics. After taking them out, he uses one of their phones and discovers that Dean was behind the hit. Racing home, Bishop calls Steve only to find that Steve has also been ambushed at Bishop's house. Bishop directs Steve to a hidden gun, which Steve uses to kill his ambushers. Steve is waiting for directions when Bishop arrives. Bishop has Steve gather supplies for their new mission, while Bishop prepares to find how to get to Dean. In the process, Steve finds his father's gun, and realizes that Bishop had killed his father and not carjackers.After working together to kill Dean, they decide to go to a gas station and during the way to the gas station, Bishop notice Harry's gun in Steve's jacket and realizes Steve has discovered the truth. Steve gets out to put gas in the car and adjusts the nozzle so it is pouring on the ground instead of in the tank. With Bishop still in the truck, Steve pulls out Harry's gun and shoots the gas, blowing up Bishop's vehicle and the gas station. Steve then returns to Bishop's house and plays a record on the turntable before going out to the garage and taking the vintage 1966 Jaguar E-Type coupe Bishop had been working on. As he is driving off, Steve notices a note on the seat of the car, which reads: "Steve, if you're reading this then you're dead!" Steve laughs and moments later the car explodes killing him. At the same time the record player has finished playing at Bishop's house and it activates a tripwire, which causes Bishop's house to also explode. Back at the gas station, a security video reveales that Bishop escaped from his truck moments before Steve blew it up, saving him. Bishop gets in another truck he had by the beach and drives away.
Simon West
Director(s)
Richard Wenk
Lewis John Carlino
Lewis John Carlino
Writer(s)
René Besson
producer
Robert Chartoff
executive producer
William Chartoff
producer (as Bill Chartoff)
Boaz Davidson
executive producer
Danny Dimbort
executive producer
Joe Gatta
executive producer
Matthew F. Leonetti Jr.
co-producer (as Matthew Leonetti Jr)
Avi Lerner
executive producer
Danny Lerner
executive producer
Jib Polhemus
co-producer
Trevor Short
executive producer
David Winkler
producer
Irwin Winkler
executive producer
Marcy Drogin
executive producer (uncredited)
John Thompson
executive producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Mark Isham
Composer(s)
Arthur Bishop
Jason Statham
Steve McKenna
Ben Foster
Dean
Tony Goldwyn
Harry McKenna
Donald Sutherland
Burke
Jeff Chase
Sarah
Mini Anden
Jorge Lara
James Logan
Lara's Guard (as Eddie Fernandez)
Eddie J. Fernandez
Car Jacker
Joshua Bridgewater
Vaughn
John McConnell
Kelly
Christa Campbell
Husband
Joel Davis
Mr. Finch (as Mark Anthony Nutter)
Mark Nutter
Bell Hop
Ardy Brent Carlson
Mrs. Finch
Lara Grice
Henry (as Lance Nichols)
Lance E. Nichols
Gun Runner
J.D. Evermore
Finch's Daughter
Ada Michelle Loridans
Jazz Club Singer
Linnzi Zaorski
News Reporter #1
Dawn Neufeld
News Reporter #2
Molly Rosenblatt
Dean's Driver
Bill Scharpf
Ney
John Teague
Sebastian
David Leitch
Lara's Girl #1 (as Jennifer Ortega)
Jen Ortega
Lara's Girl #2
LaTeace Towns-Cuellar
Shuttle Driver
Paul Abraham
Dr. X
David Dahlgren
Ralph
Stuart Greer
Maria
Katarzyna Wolejnio
Vaughn's Intern
Larrel France
Peasant
Danny Cosmo
Security Guard
Derek Schreck
'Arthur' the Dog
Choop
Chicago S.W.A.T (uncredited)
Beau Brasseaux
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Dane Brown
Jorge Lara Guard at Pool (uncredited)
Joshua Cardenez
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Grant Case
Steve's Barracade / Bar (uncredited)
Kurt Deville
Bar Patron (uncredited)
Elise Fyke
Follows an elite hit man as he teaches his trade to an apprentice who has a connection to one of his previous victims.
Director(s)
Lewis John Carlino
Lewis John Carlino
Writer(s)
producer
Robert Chartoff
executive producer
William Chartoff
producer (as Bill Chartoff)
Boaz Davidson
executive producer
Danny Dimbort
executive producer
Joe Gatta
executive producer
Matthew F. Leonetti Jr.
co-producer (as Matthew Leonetti Jr)
Avi Lerner
executive producer
Danny Lerner
executive producer
Jib Polhemus
co-producer
Trevor Short
executive producer
David Winkler
producer
Irwin Winkler
executive producer
Marcy Drogin
executive producer (uncredited)
John Thompson
executive producer (uncredited)
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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