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Jason Statham is a man who knows how to please a crowd, and even if his movies are hammered into the ground by critics, he can manage to blast his way to a spectacular victory every time. While he found huge critical and commercial success with 2024’s collaboration with director David Ayer on The Beekeeper, back in 2016, Mechanic: Resurrection was buried under the weight of a 31% Tomatometer score, but now the film just refuses to lay down and die on the free streaming platform, Tubi.

Following up his 2011 hit, The Mechanic, it was a no-brainer for Statham to reprise his role as Arthur Bishop, a master assassin coerced out of retirement to carry out more increasingly impossible hits. The movie has plenty of the usual intense and over-the-top action sequences, accompanied by a simple plot, and plenty of the usual Statham swagger to boot. Along for the ride in the sequel is Jessica Alba,...

Stars: Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Tommy Lee Jones, Michelle Yeoh, Sam Hazeldine, John Cenatiempo, Toby Eddington, Femi Elufowoju Jr., Anteo Quintavalle, Rhatha Phongam | Written by Philip Shelby, Tony Mosher | Directed by Dennis Gansel

Living with a Jason Statham “superfan” (aka my wife) means that his version of The Mechanic – a remake of the Charles Bronson original – has become something of a legend in our household. I have seen the film more times than I care to admit and more times than any other Statham-starring feature. Which means, honestly, that excitement level for this sequel, Mechanic: Resurrection, was at an all time high.

This time round Arthur Bishop, aka ‘the mechanic’, is settling into retirement when a vicious crime boss, Crain, offers him an assignment. After Bishop turns him down, Crain kidnaps Bishop’s new girlfriend Gina and sets him a near-impossible task to get her back: he must kill three...

The Impossible Trailer. Juan Antonio Bayona‘s The Impossible (2011) teaser trailer stars Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Geraldine Chaplin, Marta Etura, and Dominic Power. The Impossible‘s plot synopsis: the film features “a family caught up in the terrible Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, which killed as many as 300,000 people at the time.”

I am one of few horror movie fans that has not seen The Orphanage. I know, get on it. I actually think I have it somewhere but never got around to watching it. Needless to say, The Orphanage put Juan Antonio Bayona on the directorial map. His new film, The Impossible, immediately reminded me of Hereafter but hopefully it will turn out better than that film did.

The Impossible also stars Bruce Blain, Natalie Lorence, Anteo Quintavalle, and Ploy Jindachote.

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