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The Mechanic
MEANRANK
63/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3565
- IMDb #3364
- Google retired #2193
- Rotten Tomatoes #3572
- Metacritic #3635
- Letterboxd #4202
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3597
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3945
- Metacritic Critics #3487
- Metacritic Audience #3651
- Douban #1320
- Kinopoisk #3153
- AlloCiné #3609
- Trakt #2622
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 49, highest is Google on 84. Critics average 52, everyone else 65.
See the most agreed on films →Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code requiring professional perfection and total detachment. One of an elite group of assassins, Bishop may be the best in the business - with a unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. When Harry McKenna, his close friend and mentor, is murdered, Harry's son comes to him with vengeance in his heart and a desire to learn Bishop's trade, signaling the birth of a deadly partnership.
Details
- Director
- Simon West
- Writers
- Lewis John Carlino, Richard Wenk
- Released
- 13 January 2011
- Country
- United States, Germany
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $40.0M
- Box office
- $51.1M
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