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The Mechanic is a 2011 American action thriller film directed by Simon West, starring Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Tony Goldwyn, Donald Sutherland, James Logan, Mini Andén, Jeff Chase, and Christa Campbell. Written by Lewis John Carlino and Richard Wenk, it is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name. Statham stars as Arthur Bishop, a professional assassin who specializes in making his hits look like accidents, suicides, or the acts of petty criminals. It was released in the U.S. and Canada on January 28, 2011 to mixed reviews. A sequel, Mechanic: Resurrection, was released on August 26, 2016.

Plot

Hitman Arthur Bishop sneaks into the home of a Colombian cartel boss and drowns him in his own pool. Upon returning home to Louisiana, he meets with his friend and mentor Harry McKenna, who pays Bishop for his work. Bishop is then assigned to kill Harry. Bishop s employer Dean confirms by phone that the contract is correct, whereupon Bishop requests a face-to-face meeting. Dean tells him about a failed mission in South Africa, in which several assassins were killed.

Dean reveals that only he and Harry knew the details of the mission, and that Harry had been paid for the contract details. Reluctantly, Bishop kills Harry with the latter s own gun and makes it look like a carjacking. At the funeral, Bishop encounters Harry s son Steve, who he stops from trying to kill a would-be carjacker in a misguided attempt at vengeance. Following this, Steve asks Bishop to train him as a hitman. Adopting a chihuahua, he instructs Steve to take the dog with him to a coffee shop each day at the same time. As Steve settles into a routine, Bishop escalates their training, taking him to observe a contract killing.

The target, Burke, frequents the coffee shop and eventually invites Steve out for drinks. Bishop instructs Steve to slip a large dose of Rohypnol into Burke s drink to cause an overdose, but Steve ignores the instructions and goes with Burke to his apartment. When Burke begins to undress, Steve attempts to strangle him with a belt as he had seen Bishop do on a former assignment. Burke fights back, using his size advantage and experience, but Steve manages to kill Burke after a lengthy fight. Dean expresses disapproval of Bishop s usage of Steve, which violated the rules of contract arrangement.

Bishop s next contract is to kill cult leader Andrew Vaughn, whom he plans to inject with adrenaline to simulate a heart attack, for which the paramedics would administer a fatal dose of epinephrine. While Bishop and Steve are preparing for the hit, Vaughn s doctor arrives and administers an IV of ketamine, which would inhibit the adrenaline s effects. The two decide to suffocate him instead, but are discovered after killing Vaughn and are forced into a shootout with the guards. After the hit, Bishop and Steve fly home separately.

At the airport, Bishop finds a supposed victim of the mission that Harry allegedly sold out. He confronts the hitman, who tells Bishop that he was paid by Dean to kill the others in South Africa and fake his own death, so that Dean could engineer the failed mission to cover up his own shady dealings. He also reveals that Dean framed Harry and tricked Bishop into killing him. He then attempts to kill Bishop, who ultimately kills him in the ensuing struggle.

Bishop is later ambushed by Dean s henchmen, and after killing them, he discovers that Dean was behind the hit. Bishop calls Steve, only to find that Steve has been ambushed. After Bishop helps Steve to kill his attackers, he finds his father s gun and realizes that Bishop killed Harry.

Bishop and Steve kill Dean in an ambush. When they stop for gas, Steve floods the ground with fuel while pretending to fill the tank before shooting the gas, blowing up the truck with Bishop seemingly still inside.

Steve returns to Bishop s house and performs two actions that Bishop told him not to do: play a record on the turntable and take the 1966 Jaguar E-Type. As he drives away, Steve finds a note from Bishop that reads, If you re reading this, then you re dead. Realizing the car is rigged with a bomb, Steve gives one last laugh before the car explodes, killing him. Bishop s house is then destroyed by an explosion.

Back at the gas station, a security video reveals that Bishop had escaped from the truck, seconds before the explosion. Bishop gets into a spare truck and drives away.

Cast

  • Jason Statham as Arthur Bishop
  • Ben Foster as Steve McKenna
  • Tony Goldwyn as Dean Sanderson
  • Donald Sutherland as Harry McKenna
  • Jeff Chase as Burke
  • John McConnell as Andrew Vaughn
  • Mini Andén as Sarah
  • Stuart Greer as Ralph
  • Christa Campbell as Kelly
  • Lance E. Nichols as Henry
  • J.D. Evermore as Gun Runner
  • David Leitch as Sebastian
  • Mark Nutter as John Finch, Dean s Bodyguard
  • Lara Grice as Mrs. Finch
  • Ada Michelle Loridans as Finch s Daughter
  • Katarzyna Wolejnio as Maria
  • James Logan as Jorge Lara
  • Eddie J. Fernandez as Lara s Guard
  • Joshua Bridgewater as Raymond, The Carjacker
  • Choop as Arthur The Dog

Production

Development

Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, producers of the 1972 original Mechanic, sought to make an update. Pre-rights to the remake were sold in February 2009 at the Berlin Film Festival. (Variety reported that the screenplay was written by Karl Gajdusek.)

Casting

Director Simon West and Jason Statham were announced as part of the project three months later. Ben Foster and Donald Sutherland were cast alongside Statham in October 2009.

Filming

Filming began in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 14 and lasted for nine weeks. Filming locations included St. Tammany Parish, the World Trade Center in downtown New Orleans and the Algiers Seafood Market.

Music

The Mechanic: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Film score by

Mark Isham
Released January 25, 2011
Length 71:36
Label MIM Records MIM002
Mark Isham chronology
The Crazies
(2010)
The Mechanic: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(2011)
The Factory
(2011)

The soundtrack music is by Mark Isham, with two exceptions:

  • Franz Schubert s 1827 Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for piano, violin, and violoncello, D. 929, which is played when Bishop returns from a mission. The record was released on January 25, 2011, by MIM Records.
  • Better Off Dead by Linnzi Zaorski, herself playing the Jazz Club Singer .

All tracks are written by Mark Isham.

The Mechanic: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
No. Title Length
1. Barranquilla 1:22
2. Drowning 3:11
3. Bayou 1:17
4. Liquor Fairy 1:17
5. Coffee Shop to Bar 0:46
6. I Want a Meeting 2:31
7. Poisoned the Well 2:07
8. Amat Victoria Curam 5:31
9. Looking Back 0:33
10. Carjack 2:35
11. I Wanna Know What You Know 1:44
12. Up Close 2:35
13. Up Close (Alternate Version) 2:34
14. Chihuahuas and Boys 1:54
15. Don t Get in His Car 1:37
16. Anger, and a Place to Put It 3:58
17. An Outside Individual 1:53
18. I m Not a Reverend (Vaughn s Setup Part 1) 1:14
19. Vaughn s Setup Part 2 4:37
20. Vaughn s Hit Part 1 2:27
21. They re in the Wall (Vaughn s Hit Part 2) 2:45
22. They Played You So Easily 3:47
23. Left Side Cushion 3:51
24. Fingers, Wrist, Elbow? 2:17
25. Save the Fuel, I m Coming for You 4:46
26. Gun Sting 0:35
27. Vengeance is the Mission 3:16
28. The Mechanic 3:07
29. Original 1m1 (Bonus Track) 1:29

Release

Theatrical

The Mechanic was released in the United States and Canada on January 28, 2011. Millennium Films sold U.S. distribution rights to CBS Films for the release. It was expected to perform well with male audiences, with its release a week before Super Bowl XLV. In the United Kingdom, the distribution rights were sold to Lionsgate.

TV advertisement ban

In June 2011 the UK s Advertising Standards Authority banned an advertisement for the film from being broadcast on British television. The ban followed complaints from 13 viewers regarding a screening of the advert during the teen show Glee. In its ruling, the authority found that although the advert was shown post-watershed, it was likely that a large number of viewers under the age of 16 would have been watching Glee at the time, and criticized the stream of violent imagery portrayed in the advert.

Reception

Box office

The film grossed $11.4 million on its opening weekend in the U.S. and Canada. It ended with a North American gross of $29.1 million and $47.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $76.3 million.

Critical response

The Mechanic received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 53%, based on 156 reviews, with a rating average of 5.6/10. The site s critical consensus reads, Jason Statham and Ben Foster turn in enjoyable performances, but this superficial remake betrays them with mind-numbing violence and action thriller cliches. On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 49 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews .

Roger Ebert awarded the film two out of four stars and said, Audiences have been drilled to accept noise and movement as entertainment. It is done so well one almost forgets to ask why it has been done at all.

Sequel

Dennis Gansel directed a sequel, with Jason Statham returning as Arthur Bishop.

The Mechanic is a 2011 American action thriller film directed by Simon West, starring Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Tony Goldwyn, Donald Sutherland, James Logan, Mini Andén, Jeff Chase, and Christa Campbell. Written by Lewis John Carlino and Richard Wenk, it is a remake of the 1972 film of the same name. Statham stars as Arthur Bishop, a professional assassin who specializes in making his hits look like accidents, suicides, or the acts of petty criminals. It was released in the U.S. and Canada on January 28, 2011 to mixed reviews. A sequel, Mechanic: Resurrection, was released on August 26, 2016.

Plot

Hitman Arthur Bishop sneaks into the home of a Colombian cartel boss and drowns him in his own pool. Upon returning home to Louisiana, he meets with his friend and mentor Harry McKenna, who pays Bishop for his work. Bishop is then assigned to kill Harry. Bishop s employer Dean confirms by phone that the contract is correct, whereupon Bishop requests a face-to-face meeting. Dean tells him about a failed mission in South Africa, in which several assassins were killed.

Dean reveals that only he and Harry knew the details of the mission, and that Harry had been paid for the contract details. Reluctantly, Bishop kills Harry with the latter s own gun and makes it look like a carjacking. At the funeral, Bishop encounters Harry s son Steve, who he stops from trying to kill a would-be carjacker in a misguided attempt at vengeance. Following this, Steve asks Bishop to train him as a hitman. Adopting a chihuahua, he instructs Steve to take the dog with him to a coffee shop each day at the same time. As Steve settles into a routine, Bishop escalates their training, taking him to observe a contract killing.

The target, Burke, frequents the coffee shop and eventually invites Steve out for drinks. Bishop instructs Steve to slip a large dose of Rohypnol into Burke s drink to cause an overdose, but Steve ignores the instructions and goes with Burke to his apartment. When Burke begins to undress, Steve attempts to strangle him with a belt as he had seen Bishop do on a former assignment. Burke fights back, using his size advantage and experience, but Steve manages to kill Burke after a lengthy fight. Dean expresses disapproval of Bishop s usage of Steve, which violated the rules of contract arrangement.

Bishop s next contract is to kill cult leader Andrew Vaughn, whom he plans to inject with adrenaline to simulate a heart attack, for which the paramedics would administer a fatal dose of epinephrine. While Bishop and Steve are preparing for the hit, Vaughn s doctor arrives and administers an IV of ketamine, which would inhibit the adrenaline s effects. The two decide to suffocate him instead, but are discovered after killing Vaughn and are forced into a shootout with the guards. After the hit, Bishop and Steve fly home separately.

At the airport, Bishop finds a supposed victim of the mission that Harry allegedly sold out. He confronts the hitman, who tells Bishop that he was paid by Dean to kill the others in South Africa and fake his own death, so that Dean could engineer the failed mission to cover up his own shady dealings. He also reveals that Dean framed Harry and tricked Bishop into killing him. He then attempts to kill Bishop, who ultimately kills him in the ensuing struggle.

Bishop is later ambushed by Dean s henchmen, and after killing them, he discovers that Dean was behind the hit. Bishop calls Steve, only to find that Steve has been ambushed. After Bishop helps Steve to kill his attackers, he finds his father s gun and realizes that Bishop killed Harry.

Bishop and Steve kill Dean in an ambush. When they stop for gas, Steve floods the ground with fuel while pretending to fill the tank before shooting the gas, blowing up the truck with Bishop seemingly still inside.

Steve returns to Bishop s house and performs two actions that Bishop told him not to do: play a record on the turntable and take the 1966 Jaguar E-Type. As he drives away, Steve finds a note from Bishop that reads, If you re reading this, then you re dead. Realizing the car is rigged with a bomb, Steve gives one last laugh before the car explodes, killing him. Bishop s house is then destroyed by an explosion.

Back at the gas station, a security video reveals that Bishop had escaped from the truck, seconds before the explosion. Bishop gets into a spare truck and drives away.

Cast

  • Jason Statham as Arthur Bishop
  • Ben Foster as Steve McKenna
  • Tony Goldwyn as Dean Sanderson
  • Donald Sutherland as Harry McKenna
  • Jeff Chase as Burke
  • John McConnell as Andrew Vaughn
  • Mini Andén as Sarah
  • Stuart Greer as Ralph
  • Christa Campbell as Kelly
  • Lance E. Nichols as Henry
  • J.D. Evermore as Gun Runner
  • David Leitch as Sebastian
  • Mark Nutter as John Finch, Dean s Bodyguard
  • Lara Grice as Mrs. Finch
  • Ada Michelle Loridans as Finch s Daughter
  • Katarzyna Wolejnio as Maria
  • James Logan as Jorge Lara
  • Eddie J. Fernandez as Lara s Guard
  • Joshua Bridgewater as Raymond, The Carjacker
  • Choop as Arthur The Dog

Production

Development

Irwin Winkler and Robert Chartoff, producers of the 1972 original Mechanic, sought to make an update. Pre-rights to the remake were sold in February 2009 at the Berlin Film Festival. (Variety reported that the screenplay was written by Karl Gajdusek.)

Casting

Director Simon West and Jason Statham were announced as part of the project three months later. Ben Foster and Donald Sutherland were cast alongside Statham in October 2009.

Filming

Filming began in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 14 and lasted for nine weeks. Filming locations included St. Tammany Parish, the World Trade Center in downtown New Orleans and the Algiers Seafood Market.

Music

The Mechanic: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Film score by

Mark Isham
Released January 25, 2011
Length 71:36
Label MIM Records MIM002
Mark Isham chronology
The Crazies
(2010)
The Mechanic: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
(2011)
The Factory
(2011)

The soundtrack music is by Mark Isham, with two exceptions:

  • Franz Schubert s 1827 Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for piano, violin, and violoncello, D. 929, which is played when Bishop returns from a mission. The record was released on January 25, 2011, by MIM Records.
  • Better Off Dead by Linnzi Zaorski, herself playing the Jazz Club Singer .

All tracks are written by Mark Isham.

The Mechanic: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
No. Title Length
1. Barranquilla 1:22
2. Drowning 3:11
3. Bayou 1:17
4. Liquor Fairy 1:17
5. Coffee Shop to Bar 0:46
6. I Want a Meeting 2:31
7. Poisoned the Well 2:07
8. Amat Victoria Curam 5:31
9. Looking Back 0:33
10. Carjack 2:35
11. I Wanna Know What You Know 1:44
12. Up Close 2:35
13. Up Close (Alternate Version) 2:34
14. Chihuahuas and Boys 1:54
15. Don t Get in His Car 1:37
16. Anger, and a Place to Put It 3:58
17. An Outside Individual 1:53
18. I m Not a Reverend (Vaughn s Setup Part 1) 1:14
19. Vaughn s Setup Part 2 4:37
20. Vaughn s Hit Part 1 2:27
21. They re in the Wall (Vaughn s Hit Part 2) 2:45
22. They Played You So Easily 3:47
23. Left Side Cushion 3:51
24. Fingers, Wrist, Elbow? 2:17
25. Save the Fuel, I m Coming for You 4:46
26. Gun Sting 0:35
27. Vengeance is the Mission 3:16
28. The Mechanic 3:07
29. Original 1m1 (Bonus Track) 1:29

Release

Theatrical

The Mechanic was released in the United States and Canada on January 28, 2011. Millennium Films sold U.S. distribution rights to CBS Films for the release. It was expected to perform well with male audiences, with its release a week before Super Bowl XLV. In the United Kingdom, the distribution rights were sold to Lionsgate.

TV advertisement ban

In June 2011 the UK s Advertising Standards Authority banned an advertisement for the film from being broadcast on British television. The ban followed complaints from 13 viewers regarding a screening of the advert during the teen show Glee. In its ruling, the authority found that although the advert was shown post-watershed, it was likely that a large number of viewers under the age of 16 would have been watching Glee at the time, and criticized the stream of violent imagery portrayed in the advert.

Reception

Box office

The film grossed $11.4 million on its opening weekend in the U.S. and Canada. It ended with a North American gross of $29.1 million and $47.2 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $76.3 million.

Critical response

The Mechanic received mixed reviews from critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 53%, based on 156 reviews, with a rating average of 5.6/10. The site s critical consensus reads, Jason Statham and Ben Foster turn in enjoyable performances, but this superficial remake betrays them with mind-numbing violence and action thriller cliches. On Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score to reviews from mainstream critics, the film received an average score of 49 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating mixed or average reviews .

Roger Ebert awarded the film two out of four stars and said, Audiences have been drilled to accept noise and movement as entertainment. It is done so well one almost forgets to ask why it has been done at all.

Sequel

Dennis Gansel directed a sequel, with Jason Statham returning as Arthur Bishop.

Year 2011
ReleaseDate 2011-01-28
RuntimeMins 93
RuntimeStr 1h 33min
Plot An elite hitman teaches his trade to an apprentice who has a connection to one of his previous victims.
Awards Awards, 1 nomination
Directors Simon West
Writers Richard Wenk, Lewis John Carlino
Stars Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland
Produced by René Besson,Robert Chartoff,William Chartoff,Boaz Davidson,Danny Dimbort,Marcy Drogin,Matthew F. Leonetti Jr.,Avi Lerner,Jib Polhemus,Trevor Short,John Thompson,David Winkler,Irwin Winkler
Music by Mark Isham
Cinematography by Eric Schmidt
Film Editing by T.G. Herrington,Todd E. Miller
Casting By Lisa Mae Fincannon,Cathy Sandrich Gelfond
Production Design by Richard Lassalle
Art Direction by Jason Hamilton
Set Decoration by Leonard R. Spears
Costume Design by Christopher Lawrence
Makeup Department Samantha M. Capps,Stacy Kelly,Yolanda Mercadel,Paige Reeves,Kent Richard,Donna Spahn,Rick Stratton,Aimee Stuit
Production Management Todd Gilbert,Matthew Hirsch,Matthew F. Leonetti Jr.,Joseph Lobato
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director George Bott,Dieter Busch,William Paul Clark,David Leitch,Dennis Maguire,Tommy Martin,Nathan Parker,Matt Paull,Cali Pomes,Paul Uddo,John M. White
Art Department Matthias Beeguer,John Blanchard,Paul Blanchard,David Keith Broome,Forest Fagan,Stephen Finders,Jack Flynn,Austin Graham,Jon Graubarth,Charlie Guanci III,Charles Guanci Jr.,Caleb Guillotte,Todd Harris,A.J. Hingle Jr.,J.D. Jacoby,Alexander Lasseigne III,Kristin Lekki,Robert McClellan,Myron Meek,David J. Negron Jr.,Danny Nick,Pat A. O Connor,Jed Pendergrass,Pavel Pesta,Vladimir Petkov,Wayne Softley Jr.,Brent Stewart,Chuck Stringer,Charles Tatum,Tim Taylor,Timothy Taylor,Trinh Vu,David Warburton,Andrew Wert,Niko Zahlten,Robert J. Moore Jr.
Sound Department Wade Barnett,Gregory Black,Ryan Collins,Lara Dale,Chris David,Kenny Delbert,Brian Dunlop,Christopher Eakins,David Esparza,Jeffrey Haupt,Ruby C. Haupt,Ellen Heuer,Ron King,Tim Limer,Travis MacKay,Aileen Maquiraya,Dana McCommon,Michael Miller,A. Josh Reinhardt,Ric Schnupp,Gabriel J. Serrano,Callie Thurman,Kerry Dean Williams,Mandell Winter
Special Effects by Jason Babin,Robert Caban,Michael H. Clark,Dennis Cronan Jr.,Steve Frusher,Kevin Harris,Kurt Harris,Harry Hurst,Jack Lynch,Richard E. Perry,Durk Tyndall
Visual Effects by Joshua Michael Allen,Ivaylo Andonov,Richard Aponte,Dilyan Aynadzhiev,Bradley M. Baxter,Brian N. Bentley,David Blemur,Carey Brown,Caleb Carter,Thomas Cheng,Chad E. Collier,Natalie Coon,Chris M. Cooper,Scott Coulter,Alexandre Daigle,Robert Nicholas Dauphinais,Kevin Del Colle,Dinko Dimov,Dusty Emerson,Jonathan Erickson,Joseph Fagan,Joshua Garza,Kiril Gizdov,James Going,Laurie Powers Going,John B. Gray,Keith Green,Glen Grefe,Nathan Grubbs,Errol Hanse,Brandt Harris,Jack Hebert,Chad Herrada,Justin Horton,Travis Howe,Pavel Hristov,Ivan Gochev Ivanov,Matthew S. Jennings,Brandon Tyler Johnston,Kalin Krumov,Thomas Kuo,Alvado Landaberde,Athena Lawless,Alexander Llanos,Jonathon Luke,Carson Majors,Yael Majors,Ajoy Mani,Ryan Markley,Jordan Markov,Alberto Tito Matos Jr.,Jennifer Melton,Austin Meyers,Wes Meyers,Christopher Montesano,Greg Nelson,Glenn Neufeld,Christina Ogea,Esteban Olide,Nikolay Pachov,Kay Kyoung Park-Kim,Greg Peck,Emily Perla,Nick Peshunoff,Tremell Pittman,Stephen H. Porter,Amy Putrynski,Matthew Ramsaur,Cory R. Reed,Joshua Rivas,Sean Phillip Rowe,Andrew Sagar,Dustin Scholl,William Tatum III,Brandon Taylor,Jason Thomas,Drew Tobin,Mani Trump,Chris W. Tucker,Eric A. Tuxen,David Van Woert,Juvenal Vique,Melissa Whitcomb,Andor Záhonyi,Glenn Neufeld,Miklós Polgár,James Stevens
Stunts Robert Alonzo,Jason Ament,Hank Amos,John Ashker,John Bernecker,Chick Bernhard,Nick Brandon,Sean Paul Braud,James M. Churchman,Ben Cooke,Danny Cosmo,Mark De Alessandro,Shane Dufrene,Jared S. Eddo,Charlie Estepp,Chris J. Fanguy,Eddie J. Fernandez,Jeff Galpin,Lex D. Geddings,Sam Hargrave,Tom Harper,Luke Hawx,Daniel Hernandez,Raion Hill,Michael Hugghins,Allen Jo,Dennis Keiffer,Amir Khalighi,Richard King,David Leitch,Paul Leonard,James Logan,Michael R. Long,Jeremy Marinas,Eddie Matthews,Mike Mayhall,Matt McColm,Norman Mora,Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom,Gabriel Nunez,Noon Orsatti,Rowbie Orsatti,Garrik Palumbo,Steve Petit,Alec Rayme,Darryl Reeves,Randal Riley,Steven Ritzi,Troy Robinson,Ross Morgan Ruben,William Scharpf,Chad Stahelski,Larnell Stovall,Shelby Swatek,Aaron Toney,Tierre Turner,Jose Vasquez,Rudolf Weber,Willie Weber,Mike Wilson
Camera and Electrical Department Michael Applebaum,Grayson Austin,Robert Baird,Richard Ball,Michael Berger,Peter Berglund,Giovanni Bommarito,Curt Burlin,Chip Carey,Kevin Carlisle,Joe Cassano,Alan Caudillo,Luke Cauthern,Michael Ciancio,Jeffrey N. Civa,Jarrid Clinkinbeard,Joe Datri,Tulio Duenas,Sean Fairburn,Sean P. Fickert,Sean Finnegan,Sean Fisher,Kevin Flores,Melanie Gates,Cody Gautreau,Sean P. Gilbert,John C. Hoffler Jr.,Francis James,McKay Johnson,Jacques Jouffret,Michael D. Kennedy,Kris Krosskove,Iran Kuykendall,Michael P. May,Fred L. McLane,Luca Mercuri,Christopher Meydrich,Scott Morrison,Mike Nami Jr.,Clayton Nepveux,Adrian Neri,Coby Nissen,Josh Nobles,Jerone A. Ordon Sr.,Frank Parrish,Patti Perret,John Pingry,Ahmad Powell,Jason Prowell,Rell Putt,Chad Rivetti,Pete Romano,Declan Ryan,Tiffani L. Stephenson,Keegan Stokley,Jared Talbot,Nathan Tape,Theodore Thyssen,Daniel Tkaczyk,Aaron Toups,Remi Tournois,Darren Ursin,Chad Vanko,Jason Vowell,Joe Waistell,Kristopher Weaver,Chuck Whelan,Wylie Whitesides,Alex P. Willson,Stanley Wong,Steve Wong,Scott Zuchowski
Animation Department Joseph Fagan
Casting Department Robin Batherson,Kate Caldwell,Jandiz Estrada,Tara Feldstein,Sandy Holt,Jason Landry,Marcy Punch
Costume and Wardrobe Department Marilyn Brum,Jordanna Fineberg,Deborah Hall,Christy Hebert,Sarah P. Koeppe,Wendy Talley,Susan Thomas,Lesley D. Wickham
Editorial Department Paul Carlin,Mike Dillard,David Feldman,Siggy Ferstl,Travis Flynn,Jordan Fox,Brian Hayashi,Michael Kaz,Michael Landon,Ben McKay,Ryan Noto,Faust Pierfederici,Sean Phillip Rowe,Jim Schulte,Stefan Sonnenfeld,Amanda Weir,Lee Wimer,Taylor Black,Ian Sullivan
Location Management Ruth Caffery,Batou Chandler,John R.C. Davis,Katherine Dolese,Stacy Fortenberry,Micah Haley,Kendrick Hudson,Chris Lyon,Jessica Renzi-Bailey,Win Riley
Music Department Neal Acree,Selena Arizanovic,Alexi Cantoto,Lordes D Ortega,Little Willie Dantes,Brad Dechter,Hector Delgado,Big Jimmy Duchamp,Shannon Erbe,The Filmharmonic Orchestra Prague,Adam Klemens,Jason La Rocca,JJ Lee,Jon Mooney,Cindy O Connor,Tyler Parkinson,Petr Pycha,Oldrich Slexák,Clint Bennett
Script and Continuity Department Amy Sanderson
Transportation Department Zandra Batiste,Virgil Bienemy,Richard Brown,Donald Dibartolo,Phil K. Frost,Peter Gondrella,Ricky Hawkins,Earl R. Hurst Sr.,Robert Husband,Randy Kinyon,Dwayne Lain,Roy Maggio,Ruth Marshall,Nick W. Pastrano,Poland Perkins,Gwendalane Ramos,Albert Samson,Al Sens,Shelton L. Slack,Ken Smith,Steven Willhoite,Tim Woods
Additional Crew Paul Abraham,Amy Agzarian,Jason Ament,Danny Dano Anderson,Lauren Askew,Sebastien Betsch,Ron Blecker,Zoe Bower Robert,Devon Boyd,Scott Branta,Beau Brasseaux,Sean Paul Braud,Durado D. Brooks Jr.,Samantha Brooks,Brandon e Buck,Dottie Buck,Cedric Burton,Ardy Brent Carlson,Jason Chandler,Chris Clinton,Chris Compton,Alexandre Coscas,Tana David,Angel De La Vina,John Dean Alfone,Christopher Dickerson,Dusty Emerson,Matthew Ford,Claude Forest,Paul Fraser,Bryan Gardiner,Jeffrey Giles,Moira Glace,Sarah Gray,Eric Green,Jeffrey Greenstein,Drew Guajardo,Susan Humphrey,Nick Jones Jr.,Ashley Kravitz,Evgeny Krutov,Alan J. Lam,Brooke Lehman,Mike Leonard,Robert A. Levine,Joan Mao,Gail Marks,Renee Marsella,Diego J. Martinez,Mark Micucci,Matthew D. Miller,Patrick Mizell,Casey Moore,Kevin Muller,Karen S. Neasi,Lisandro Novillo,Rouslan Ovtcharoff,Miguel Angelo Pate,Rachel Perez,Susan Pusateri,Lonnie Ramati,Sonia Randazzo,Michael Randolph,Jennifer Ray,Brieann Rich,Nicholas Rich,Tina Rosen,Derek A. Schwebel,Caroline Seale,Natasha Shumny,Anna Gand Sislyan,Veselin Stankov,Aaron J. Stone,Misty Suri,Ray Tamayo,Sonia V. Torres,Lauren Von Huene,Jay Watt,Andrew Wert,Eric Scott Williamson
Thanks Clint Borden,Jennifer Day,Keith Holcomb,Mitch Landrieu,Teddy Solomon
Genres Action, Crime, Thriller
Companies CBS Films, Millennium Films, Chartoff-Winkler Productions
Countries USA
Languages English
ContentRating R
ImDbRating 6.5
ImDbRatingVotes 161084
MetacriticRating 49
Keywords sex scene,woman on top,female rear nudity,apprentice,assassin
Year 2011
ReleaseDate 2011-01-28
RuntimeMins 93
RuntimeStr 1h 33min
Plot An elite hitman teaches his trade to an apprentice who has a connection to one of his previous victims.
Awards Awards, 1 nomination
Directors Simon West
Writers Richard Wenk, Lewis John Carlino
Stars Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland
Produced by René Besson,Robert Chartoff,William Chartoff,Boaz Davidson,Danny Dimbort,Marcy Drogin,Matthew F. Leonetti Jr.,Avi Lerner,Jib Polhemus,Trevor Short,John Thompson,David Winkler,Irwin Winkler
Music by Mark Isham
Cinematography by Eric Schmidt
Film Editing by T.G. Herrington,Todd E. Miller
Casting By Lisa Mae Fincannon,Cathy Sandrich Gelfond
Production Design by Richard Lassalle
Art Direction by Jason Hamilton
Set Decoration by Leonard R. Spears
Costume Design by Christopher Lawrence
Makeup Department Samantha M. Capps,Stacy Kelly,Yolanda Mercadel,Paige Reeves,Kent Richard,Donna Spahn,Rick Stratton,Aimee Stuit
Production Management Todd Gilbert,Matthew Hirsch,Matthew F. Leonetti Jr.,Joseph Lobato
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director George Bott,Dieter Busch,William Paul Clark,David Leitch,Dennis Maguire,Tommy Martin,Nathan Parker,Matt Paull,Cali Pomes,Paul Uddo,John M. White
Art Department Matthias Beeguer,John Blanchard,Paul Blanchard,David Keith Broome,Forest Fagan,Stephen Finders,Jack Flynn,Austin Graham,Jon Graubarth,Charlie Guanci III,Charles Guanci Jr.,Caleb Guillotte,Todd Harris,A.J. Hingle Jr.,J.D. Jacoby,Alexander Lasseigne III,Kristin Lekki,Robert McClellan,Myron Meek,David J. Negron Jr.,Danny Nick,Pat A. O Connor,Jed Pendergrass,Pavel Pesta,Vladimir Petkov,Wayne Softley Jr.,Brent Stewart,Chuck Stringer,Charles Tatum,Tim Taylor,Timothy Taylor,Trinh Vu,David Warburton,Andrew Wert,Niko Zahlten,Robert J. Moore Jr.
Sound Department Wade Barnett,Gregory Black,Ryan Collins,Lara Dale,Chris David,Kenny Delbert,Brian Dunlop,Christopher Eakins,David Esparza,Jeffrey Haupt,Ruby C. Haupt,Ellen Heuer,Ron King,Tim Limer,Travis MacKay,Aileen Maquiraya,Dana McCommon,Michael Miller,A. Josh Reinhardt,Ric Schnupp,Gabriel J. Serrano,Callie Thurman,Kerry Dean Williams,Mandell Winter
Special Effects by Jason Babin,Robert Caban,Michael H. Clark,Dennis Cronan Jr.,Steve Frusher,Kevin Harris,Kurt Harris,Harry Hurst,Jack Lynch,Richard E. Perry,Durk Tyndall
Visual Effects by Joshua Michael Allen,Ivaylo Andonov,Richard Aponte,Dilyan Aynadzhiev,Bradley M. Baxter,Brian N. Bentley,David Blemur,Carey Brown,Caleb Carter,Thomas Cheng,Chad E. Collier,Natalie Coon,Chris M. Cooper,Scott Coulter,Alexandre Daigle,Robert Nicholas Dauphinais,Kevin Del Colle,Dinko Dimov,Dusty Emerson,Jonathan Erickson,Joseph Fagan,Joshua Garza,Kiril Gizdov,James Going,Laurie Powers Going,John B. Gray,Keith Green,Glen Grefe,Nathan Grubbs,Errol Hanse,Brandt Harris,Jack Hebert,Chad Herrada,Justin Horton,Travis Howe,Pavel Hristov,Ivan Gochev Ivanov,Matthew S. Jennings,Brandon Tyler Johnston,Kalin Krumov,Thomas Kuo,Alvado Landaberde,Athena Lawless,Alexander Llanos,Jonathon Luke,Carson Majors,Yael Majors,Ajoy Mani,Ryan Markley,Jordan Markov,Alberto Tito Matos Jr.,Jennifer Melton,Austin Meyers,Wes Meyers,Christopher Montesano,Greg Nelson,Glenn Neufeld,Christina Ogea,Esteban Olide,Nikolay Pachov,Kay Kyoung Park-Kim,Greg Peck,Emily Perla,Nick Peshunoff,Tremell Pittman,Stephen H. Porter,Amy Putrynski,Matthew Ramsaur,Cory R. Reed,Joshua Rivas,Sean Phillip Rowe,Andrew Sagar,Dustin Scholl,William Tatum III,Brandon Taylor,Jason Thomas,Drew Tobin,Mani Trump,Chris W. Tucker,Eric A. Tuxen,David Van Woert,Juvenal Vique,Melissa Whitcomb,Andor Záhonyi,Glenn Neufeld,Miklós Polgár,James Stevens
Stunts Robert Alonzo,Jason Ament,Hank Amos,John Ashker,John Bernecker,Chick Bernhard,Nick Brandon,Sean Paul Braud,James M. Churchman,Ben Cooke,Danny Cosmo,Mark De Alessandro,Shane Dufrene,Jared S. Eddo,Charlie Estepp,Chris J. Fanguy,Eddie J. Fernandez,Jeff Galpin,Lex D. Geddings,Sam Hargrave,Tom Harper,Luke Hawx,Daniel Hernandez,Raion Hill,Michael Hugghins,Allen Jo,Dennis Keiffer,Amir Khalighi,Richard King,David Leitch,Paul Leonard,James Logan,Michael R. Long,Jeremy Marinas,Eddie Matthews,Mike Mayhall,Matt McColm,Norman Mora,Panuvat Anthony Nanakornpanom,Gabriel Nunez,Noon Orsatti,Rowbie Orsatti,Garrik Palumbo,Steve Petit,Alec Rayme,Darryl Reeves,Randal Riley,Steven Ritzi,Troy Robinson,Ross Morgan Ruben,William Scharpf,Chad Stahelski,Larnell Stovall,Shelby Swatek,Aaron Toney,Tierre Turner,Jose Vasquez,Rudolf Weber,Willie Weber,Mike Wilson
Camera and Electrical Department Michael Applebaum,Grayson Austin,Robert Baird,Richard Ball,Michael Berger,Peter Berglund,Giovanni Bommarito,Curt Burlin,Chip Carey,Kevin Carlisle,Joe Cassano,Alan Caudillo,Luke Cauthern,Michael Ciancio,Jeffrey N. Civa,Jarrid Clinkinbeard,Joe Datri,Tulio Duenas,Sean Fairburn,Sean P. Fickert,Sean Finnegan,Sean Fisher,Kevin Flores,Melanie Gates,Cody Gautreau,Sean P. Gilbert,John C. Hoffler Jr.,Francis James,McKay Johnson,Jacques Jouffret,Michael D. Kennedy,Kris Krosskove,Iran Kuykendall,Michael P. May,Fred L. McLane,Luca Mercuri,Christopher Meydrich,Scott Morrison,Mike Nami Jr.,Clayton Nepveux,Adrian Neri,Coby Nissen,Josh Nobles,Jerone A. Ordon Sr.,Frank Parrish,Patti Perret,John Pingry,Ahmad Powell,Jason Prowell,Rell Putt,Chad Rivetti,Pete Romano,Declan Ryan,Tiffani L. Stephenson,Keegan Stokley,Jared Talbot,Nathan Tape,Theodore Thyssen,Daniel Tkaczyk,Aaron Toups,Remi Tournois,Darren Ursin,Chad Vanko,Jason Vowell,Joe Waistell,Kristopher Weaver,Chuck Whelan,Wylie Whitesides,Alex P. Willson,Stanley Wong,Steve Wong,Scott Zuchowski
Animation Department Joseph Fagan
Casting Department Robin Batherson,Kate Caldwell,Jandiz Estrada,Tara Feldstein,Sandy Holt,Jason Landry,Marcy Punch
Costume and Wardrobe Department Marilyn Brum,Jordanna Fineberg,Deborah Hall,Christy Hebert,Sarah P. Koeppe,Wendy Talley,Susan Thomas,Lesley D. Wickham
Editorial Department Paul Carlin,Mike Dillard,David Feldman,Siggy Ferstl,Travis Flynn,Jordan Fox,Brian Hayashi,Michael Kaz,Michael Landon,Ben McKay,Ryan Noto,Faust Pierfederici,Sean Phillip Rowe,Jim Schulte,Stefan Sonnenfeld,Amanda Weir,Lee Wimer,Taylor Black,Ian Sullivan
Location Management Ruth Caffery,Batou Chandler,John R.C. Davis,Katherine Dolese,Stacy Fortenberry,Micah Haley,Kendrick Hudson,Chris Lyon,Jessica Renzi-Bailey,Win Riley
Music Department Neal Acree,Selena Arizanovic,Alexi Cantoto,Lordes D Ortega,Little Willie Dantes,Brad Dechter,Hector Delgado,Big Jimmy Duchamp,Shannon Erbe,The Filmharmonic Orchestra Prague,Adam Klemens,Jason La Rocca,JJ Lee,Jon Mooney,Cindy O Connor,Tyler Parkinson,Petr Pycha,Oldrich Slexák,Clint Bennett
Script and Continuity Department Amy Sanderson
Transportation Department Zandra Batiste,Virgil Bienemy,Richard Brown,Donald Dibartolo,Phil K. Frost,Peter Gondrella,Ricky Hawkins,Earl R. Hurst Sr.,Robert Husband,Randy Kinyon,Dwayne Lain,Roy Maggio,Ruth Marshall,Nick W. Pastrano,Poland Perkins,Gwendalane Ramos,Albert Samson,Al Sens,Shelton L. Slack,Ken Smith,Steven Willhoite,Tim Woods
Additional Crew Paul Abraham,Amy Agzarian,Jason Ament,Danny Dano Anderson,Lauren Askew,Sebastien Betsch,Ron Blecker,Zoe Bower Robert,Devon Boyd,Scott Branta,Beau Brasseaux,Sean Paul Braud,Durado D. Brooks Jr.,Samantha Brooks,Brandon e Buck,Dottie Buck,Cedric Burton,Ardy Brent Carlson,Jason Chandler,Chris Clinton,Chris Compton,Alexandre Coscas,Tana David,Angel De La Vina,John Dean Alfone,Christopher Dickerson,Dusty Emerson,Matthew Ford,Claude Forest,Paul Fraser,Bryan Gardiner,Jeffrey Giles,Moira Glace,Sarah Gray,Eric Green,Jeffrey Greenstein,Drew Guajardo,Susan Humphrey,Nick Jones Jr.,Ashley Kravitz,Evgeny Krutov,Alan J. Lam,Brooke Lehman,Mike Leonard,Robert A. Levine,Joan Mao,Gail Marks,Renee Marsella,Diego J. Martinez,Mark Micucci,Matthew D. Miller,Patrick Mizell,Casey Moore,Kevin Muller,Karen S. Neasi,Lisandro Novillo,Rouslan Ovtcharoff,Miguel Angelo Pate,Rachel Perez,Susan Pusateri,Lonnie Ramati,Sonia Randazzo,Michael Randolph,Jennifer Ray,Brieann Rich,Nicholas Rich,Tina Rosen,Derek A. Schwebel,Caroline Seale,Natasha Shumny,Anna Gand Sislyan,Veselin Stankov,Aaron J. Stone,Misty Suri,Ray Tamayo,Sonia V. Torres,Lauren Von Huene,Jay Watt,Andrew Wert,Eric Scott Williamson
Thanks Clint Borden,Jennifer Day,Keith Holcomb,Mitch Landrieu,Teddy Solomon
Genres Action, Crime, Thriller
Companies CBS Films, Millennium Films, Chartoff-Winkler Productions
Countries USA
Languages English
ContentRating R
ImDbRating 6.5
ImDbRatingVotes 161084
MetacriticRating 49
Keywords sex scene,woman on top,female rear nudity,apprentice,assassin