How do you evaluate a mechanic? How is Jason Statham doing?

Jason Statham has many well-known and classic series of action movies. "The Machinist" should be a relatively unpopular series among them. The reason is: too simple.

The emotions are simple, the picture is simple, the action is simpler than the plot, killing is easier than drinking water, there are no special effects, no plasma explosions, not even super cool cars and blinding guns (the only one) A windmill drove a kilometer and was blown up into the sky).

This is basically a "Three Nos" movie. If it were to be labeled as such, it would be more like a code of conduct for professional killers. Basically 100% of women are not suitable to watch it, and more than half of men are not suitable to watch it. This is "The Machinist".

(1): Tough guy Statham

Statham, who was born in 1967, started his career at the age of thirty. At the age of fifty, he is still fighting and killing on the screen. , when it comes to this perseverance and physical strength, he deserves respect.

From the first "Two Smoking Barrels" to the finalized style of "The Express", apart from Statham's usual tough guy style, what surprises us the most is his appearance, which has not aged for more than ten years. , or to put it this way, he was already showing his age like this more than ten years ago.

When filming "The Machinist", Statham's actual age was 44 years old. Arthur's age in the film should be between 35-40 years old, there is not much difference.

Arthur is positioned as a professional killer. He is ruthless, quick-handed, and doesn't talk much. Statham's face gives people the impression that he is born to keep strangers away. He has a ruthless spirit that is quite similar to Arthur's. for similarity.

If others need to perform deliberately and practice repeatedly to play a killer, then Statham only needs to let go and play.

The first person killed in the first act of the movie, Arthur used a water attack. From the beginning to the end, it took three minutes to explain the foreshadowing, but it only took five for Arthur to kill. seconds.

This kind of time ratio is basically the same throughout the entire movie and in the remaining attacks and killings led by Arthur.

Statham expressed Arthur's speed, accuracy, ruthlessness, and professional ethics without a trace of emotion very accurately. In addition, Statham himself is an athlete, with extraordinary athletic talent and muscular training, and non-fancy but extremely practical action design. Statham also interprets it extremely well.

(2): Cold-Blooded Arthur

As mentioned earlier, "The Mechanic" is like a professional killer's operating rules. The whole book conveys a concept: the killer should give up his personal life. Emotions, rules first.

Cold-blooded Arthur, emotionless Arthur, is the top master in this industry.

When you thought he would feel compassion for Harry in a wheelchair, and then join forces to bring all the villains to chaos?

He clicked a few times and gave Harry a pleasant surprise.

When you thought that after he found out that Steve knew that he was the enemy who killed his father, he would cry bitterly, make a true confession, and then reconcile as before?

He calmly gave Steve a pleasant surprise.

Arthur is cold-blooded and unemotional. The only thing he abides by is the rules.

Harry betrayed the system and violated the rules, so he naturally needs to be punished. If he doesn't do it, others will do it.

If Steve wants to become another "machinist", he must understand and respect the rules like him. So when Steve violates the rules and attacks himself, Arthur naturally Feeling relaxed.

Not only in "The Machinist", but also in many movies of the same type that we are used to watching, when it comes to the subject of "killer", "professionalism", "no distinction between right and wrong, no emotion, "Only divided into tasks and rules" are some of the truths that are usually mentioned.

But the only ones who can implement this principle to the end and execute it without any sloppiness should be "The Mechanic" and Killer Arthur.