Review: The Mechanic

The Mechanic is about Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) being a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets, and Bishop is the best in the business.


But when his mentor and close friend Harry is murdered (by Bishop himself), Bishop is anything but detached. His next assignment is self-imposed - he wants those responsible dead. His mission grows complicated when Harry's son Steve (Ben Foster) approaches him with the same vengeful goal and a determination to learn Bishop's trade.


Bishop has always acted alone but he can't turn his back on Harry's son. Therefore, he takes a student deep into his world and a deadly partnership is born.

But while in pursuit of their ultimate mark, deceptions threaten to surface and those hired to fix problems become problems themselves. Despite that, Both Arthur and Steve took on assignments. Although Steve was reckless during his missions, Arthur kept his faith and continued cooperating with him.


Soon after, Steve found out that Arthur was the one who murdered his dad when he found a gun, which belonged to his late father, at Arthur's place. Feeling more vengeful, he followed Arthur to the last assignment - which is to kill the man who ordered the death of Harry.

Together, they were unstoppable and finally the man got killed. Towards the end, Steve planned to kill Arthur himself, thought he managed to kill him, went back to Arthur's hideout and died because of a booby trap set by Arthur. On the other hand, Arthur escaped death.


Overall, the movie was fast paced and interesting. The actions are continuous and there are nerve-wrecking situations here and there. Explosions were there and numerous chases occurred.

Suspense and unpredictable scenes were added into the storyline as well, making it more exciting as the audience would be curious to find out what's happening next.

The Mechanic is a typical Jason Statham movie - the character suits him very well, even though it could be too dull and stern - just like many of his similar movies. Meanwhile, Ben Foster's character brings more dynamic and eagerness.

Noobie Rating: 6/10 (Watch it if you're a Jason Statham fan)

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The Mechanic Official Poster and Trailer

The Mechanic is about Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) being a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets, and Bishop is the best in the business.

This is the official poster of The Mechanic.


But when his mentor and close friend Harry (Donald Sutherland) is murdered, Bishop is anything but detached. His next assignment is self-imposed - he wants those responsible dead. His mission grows complicated when Harry's son Steve (Ben Foster) approaches him with the same vengeful goal and a determination to learn Bishop's trade.

This is the official movie poster of The Mechanic.


Bishop has always acted alone but he can't turn his back on Harry's son. Therefore, he takes a student deep into his world and a deadly partnership is born.

But while in pursuit of their ultimate mark, deceptions threaten to surface and those hired to fix problems become problems themselves.

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Review: The Expendables

The Expandables is about Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) leading the "Expendables", a band of highly skilled mercenaries who does nasty jobs for huge amount of money.


The group includes knife enthusiast Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), martial arts expert Yin Yang (Jet Li), heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road and loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen.


When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the merciless dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee head to the remote locale to scout out their opposition.


There on the island, they meet with local rebel Sandra and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city. When they escape the island and Sandra stays behind, Ross must choose to either walk away and save his own life - or attempt a suicidal rescue mission that might just save his soul.


And eventually, Ross went back to the island to settle the job and most importantly to save Sandra - the woman he fell in love almost immediately.

The storyline ends, as predicted, with The Expendables team accomplishing the job with massive explosions and shootings. Pretty much nothing to be understood since it's an all action movie with lots of stunts and actions.

For this movie, Sylvester Stallone's idea of gathering all the action-based actors isn't really successful. It's more like dumping all the well-known actors hoping that every single fans of each actors will watch the movie. Bet many would be disappointed.

Anyway, the plot is pretty much - Shoot, talk, talk, man falls in love, man saves woman, boom, Boom, BOOM, BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Noobie Rating: 5/10 (Just okay)

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Review: Death Race

Warning: Content may contain spoilers.


Death Race tells a story of a man who was framed and sent to prison so that he can replace the legendary Frankenstein, a masked driver, in the infamous Death Race. During the race, the drivers (prisoners) are allowed to eliminate their competitors by using artillery attached to their cars. Yes, they kill each other while racing!

Overall, the movie was exciting. The actions were awesome and I like the 'game feature'. It's like Need For Speed where the ranking will be shown. Besides that, the drivers are required to drive over a 'trigger' on the racetrack in order to activate the car's defense or attack weapons. I was actually amazed by this creativity!

The well-known The Transporter and The Italian Job star, Jason Statham, is another exceptional actor. He's very suitable for all these kinds of action movies, in my opinion.

Reminder: If you haven't watched Death Race and you don't want to spoil your movie outing, read no further. Feel free to read the other posts.


Jensen Ames (Jason Statham) was framed for his wife's murder and was sent to the Terminal Island Prison, the place where Death Race is broadcast to the world. Hennessey (Joan Allen), the prison's warden, was actually the culprit behind the murder of Ames' wife; she wants him in her prison because he has impressive car racing records. Ames was then asked to take over the role of Frankenstein, who was badly wounded or dead (I'm not sure) in the previous race, by Hennessey.

The original Frankenstein had won 4 races and if Ames wins the next one (as Frankenstein), Hennessey will grant him his freedom. Wanting to retrieve his baby back from the foster parents, he accepted the role of the masked driver. He was then assigned to his navigator, Case (Natalie Martinez), who was also Frankenstein's previous navigator. She's hot!


The race was divided into 3 stages and the rule is simple; eliminate the others and win. The winner will gain one step closer towards freedom.

In the 1st stage, Ames managed to uphold the role well and he survived it. He also realized that the man who killed his wife is one of the racers; Pachenko.

During the 2nd round, Ames found out that Case was actually assigned by Hennessy to sabotage Frankenstein's Ford Mustang so he wouldn't win his freedom. In return, she'll earn her own freedom. Hennessey is such a bitch! Anyway, at some point during the race, Ames killed Pachenko with his bare hands to seek revenge.

Feeling displeased, Hennessy summoned The Dreadnought, a huge tank truck with several heavy machine guns and missiles, to kill the drivers. It has a flame thrower too!


Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson) and Ames were the only two remaining as the rest was ruthlessly killed by the rampant Dreadnought. Ames and Joe then co-operated and they managed to destroy the tank together.

In stage 3, the race began with the final 2 drivers. However, Hennessy played dirty and gave the advantage to Joe. But both of them deceived Hennessy and they escaped to the mainland through a destroyed billboard. Police cars and helicopters were deployed but they failed to apprehend both Ames and Joe. Later on, Hennessey was killed when she received a bomb. Serves the bitch right!

Six months later, Ames and Joe were shown working in a junkyard and Case arrived moments later. She got her freedom because Hennessey has already signed her release papers before the race. The movie ended with Ames narrating that even though he's far from being the best dad, no one could love his child more than he could.

He's such a sweet and loving dad.

Noobie Rating: 7/10

Filled with exciting explosions and racing scenes. You don't wanna miss it!

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