2016 · action · crime · thriller
Mechanic: Resurrection
Directed by Dennis Gansel1h 39m2016
Arthur Bishop thought he had put his murderous past behind him when his most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life. Now he is forced to travel the globe to complete three impossible assassinations, and do what he does best, make them look like accidents.
Our read: Mechanic: Resurrection (2016) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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