Then comes the pool sequence, which sees Jason Statham (his character has a different name but I prefer to think that Mechanic: Resurrection is a documentary of Statham on a Sunday afternoon) tasked with murdering Adrian Cook, who runs an underage trafficking ring in Sydney.
Most of Mechanic: Resurrection is truly awful.
That’s all the opening Statham needs, though, as we’re then meticulously shown how he gets into position to drill a huge hole in the glass that empties the pool and sees Adrian Cook fall to his death.
Sure Jason Statham gamely puts his muscle-bound physique to the extreme in a number of death-defying scenes, but they’re all so poorly executed and constructed that you just don’t care.