Jason Statham’s Hit Action Sequel with $125 Million Box Office is Now a Free Streaming Success

 

Jason Statham’s Hit Action Sequel with $125 Million Box Office is Now a Free Streaming Success

 

 

 

Jason Statham is shooting up the Freevee Top 10 with Mechanic: Resurrection . Like every movie of the British action star’s career, the sequel’s appearance on free streaming has proven to be another huge win for those wanting to check out his brand of incredibly popular – but heavily criticized – brand of no-nonsense action.

 

The 2016 movie follows up on Statham’s 2011 remake of the Charles Branson movie The Mechanic. In the film, Statham returns as Arthur Bishop, a retired assassin who is forced back into the dangerous world he left behind when his girlfriend is abducted by his arch-nemesis. This sets him on a race around the world to complete a series of assassinations, and, as expected, the action ramps up very quickly, and becomes more unbelievable with every step, as Bishop gets deeper into his mission.

 

Now Mechanic: Resurrection is discovering a new audience and continuing to defy those critics that just really don’t seem to understand that sometimes you just need excessive violence, and blink-and-you-miss-it plot. Plenty of brooding looks from a big, bald Brit doesn’t hurt either. The film currently holds a 31% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes, with a consensus that the action is “forgettable,” and “even Statham looks a little bored” by the proceedings. For a change, audiences seem to mostly agree, just don’t expect to find many of them dissing The Stath even if they were not completely engaged by the film.

 

Jason Statham Can Do No Wrong

 

One thing that has been proven time and time again is that certain actors have the ability to turn a terrible script into a box office success. This was true with Mechanic: Resurrection, which converted a $40 million budget into a $125 million gross – almost double that taken by The Mechanic in 2011. However, Statham has managed to carve himself the kind of action movie niche that has been previously occupied by the likes of Sylvester Stallone, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Bruce Willis, where the quality isn’t always an important factor for audiences.