Watching this movie, you get the nagging feeling that the filmmakers were just going through the motion of creating a generic action film and could care less about presenting anything new on the screen.To say the bad guys were one-dimensional and derivative would be the understatement of the year. Jessica Alba's character was painful to watch. A school teacher with martial arts skills out of the blue like that? I don't think so. Tommy Lee Jones could've played his role in his sleep. As a matter of fact, he WAS asleep since he was shown in his pajamas. Skip this turkey and look for action elsewhere.

Jason reprises the role created for Charles Bronson 40+ years ago. The action scenes are so speeded up and jumpy I was getting eyestrain. A by the numbers script makes this Mechanic very mechanical.

Nice action-packed movie, but it can't match the prequel. The storyline is interesting, but not very credible. Where its predessor was well-thought, this one feels like its made in a hurry. For the rest its like an average action movie.

Wandering through Rio, Thailand, Malaysia, Bulgaria, Bond style. We have an actress who was in a Bond, Michelle Yeoh, here in a small role. Jason Statham and Jessica Alba, they are not exactly what could be called actors, they are just presences. More interesting would have been if Jessica had beard, and Jason would have occurred in bikini. But we have a great actor in this film, Tommy Lee Jones, a true delight, even in a lesser role stretch. Charles Bronson definitely is twisting in his grave.