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Watch: The Mechanic 1972 123movies, Full Movie Online – A professional hit man is planning to retire, always a difficult move for one in such a profession. A young apprentice appears to be eager to learn all the skills of the trade – but is that all he wants?.
Plot: Arthur Bishop is a veteran hit man who, owing to his penchant for making his targets’ deaths seem like accidents, thinks himself an artist. It’s made him very rich, but as he hits middle age, he’s so depressed and lonely that he takes on one of his victim’s sons, Steve McKenna, as his apprentice. Arthur puts him through a rigorous training period and brings him on several hits. As Steven improves, Arthur worries that he’ll discover who killed his father.
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	6.8/10 Votes: 14,389
	33% | RottenTomatoes
	51/100 | MetaCritic
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Cult Movies 15
15. THE MECHANIC (action, 1972) Arthur Bishop (Charles Bronson) is the mechanic, a hit man hired by the Organization as an assassin. Bishop’s contact to the Organization is Harry, a long time confidant of his late father. Bishop is meticulous in his work. He is without feelings or remorse, the consummate professional. Bishop’s next target is Harry. He carries the job through without hesitation. Harry’s son Steve (Jan-Michael Vincent) lives the life of a dilettante playboy. He suspects Bishop’s involvement in his father’s death, and tries to find out what his ties to the Organization truly are.

Critique: As far as spy and espionage films go ‘The Mechanic’ is one of the best. Not only for those Charles Bronson aficionados (like myself), but for lovers of well-made action films. Michael Winner’s clever direction adds a sparkle to the genre. He sets up interesting insights into an assassin’s mode of work.

A cut above Death Wish (1974- Bronson’s best known film), in both content and script, Bronson’s performance is the epitome of cool. He’s perfect at playing a character that has been totally detached from the outside world, and a man trapped in a world he can only have created. In the same way that Steve McQueen used his laconic presence to great effect, Winner makes full use of Bronson’s craggy features.

QUOTE: Bishop: “Murder is killing without a license. Everybody kills.”

Charles Bronson Thriller with a wallop of an ending
Fascinating film about the life and lifestyle of a professional hit-man, a Mechanic, and how dangerous that lifestyle can be not just for the person that gets “Hit” but also for the “Hitman” himself. Arthur Bishop, Charles Bronson, is the top “Mechanic” in the business and we see in the beginning of the movie how he does his job.

Getting his orders through the mail Bishop sets up his victim by casing out his hotel room and then planting an explosive in his bookcase and rigging his gas-range to leak slowly so he wouldn’t notice. Then wait hidden ,across the street facing his intended victim’s room, until the time is right for him to get off a shot. Not at the victim but at the bookcase to make it look like the he died in a tragic accident instead of an assassins bullet.

You see this all happening in the first fifteen minutes of the movie without a single word of dialog but it’s done so well that you know exactly what’s happening on the screen. The “hit job” that Bishop had at the start of the movie turned out to be a flaming success.

One afternoon Bishop gets a call from a old friend “Big” Harry, Keenan Wynn. McKenna about some trouble he’s having with the organization and if Bishop can help him out. Being that Bishop’s father was one of the founders of the organization “Big” Harry feels he can get whatever trouble he has with it smooths out. Bishop tells “Big” Harry he’ll see what he could do.

The next morning Bishop gets an envelope in the mail from the organization for his next hit and the person Bishop is contracted to knock off is non other then “Big” Harry. Going through the motions as usual Bishop plans his “Hit” on “Big” Harry with cold calculations and no emotions at all even though he knew “Big” Harry since he was a little boy.

Getting “Big” Harry to meet him in a secluded place by the beach Bishop takes a number of shot at him but not trying to kill him but to induce “Big” Harry to have a fatal heart attack which he does. This is doe by Bishop so that the police and maybe even his fellow mobsters wouldn’t be suspicious of any foul play in “Big” Harry’s death.

“Big” Harry’s son Steve, Jan-Michael Vincent who Bishop met when he came to see “Big” Harry begins to take a very strong liking to him after his fathers death. It’s as if Steve wanted Bishop to be his fathers replacement. Even though at the time when Bishop saw Steve with his father they weren’t exactly that close and Steve seemed to have a dislike and resentment for his dad even at his funeral that Bishop attended.

It seems that Steve wants to become a “Mechanic” like Bishop and wants to learn the tools of the trade from him, who’s the best in the business. Steve likes Bishop’s pad in the country and fancy sports car and most of all the danger of his job that is very exciting for the young man who was bored with his life of unending parties. You start to wonder if thats really the reason Steve is so interested to be around Bishop? Does Steve want to get even with Bishop, who Steve seems to know, killed his father? And why does Bishop seem to be so agreeable with Steve in teaching him about the art of killing in secret? Or is Bishop not as naive as he seems to be and is setting Steve up for something?

Intelligent film about the dirty business of the assassination game with Charles Bronson and Jan- Michael Vincent very good as cold-blooded killers who show no emotion at what they do. Slow in the action department, for a Charles Bronson movie, at first but better acted and written then most of the movies that he made back then in the 1970’s. With an ending that’s one of the best and most surprising finals you’ll ever see in any movie.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 40 min (100 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Action, Crime, Thriller
Director Michael Winner
Writer Lewis John Carlino, Monte Hellman
Actors Charles Bronson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Keenan Wynn
Country United States
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length 2,735 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Eastman 100T 5254)
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm