I had seen "The Mechanic 2" before, and I thought the prequel was still a routine action film, but I didn't realize it told a story of benevolence in the rivers and lakes until halfway through.
As the top killer of the organization, Arthur can carry out the assassination operation in the simplest and most low-key way. The boss of the organization deceived him that the master betrayed the organization, and he could only kill the master. Then he took the master's son to learn assassination skills, and when it was finally revealed that the two of them worked together to kill the leader of the organization, the two of them tried to fight against each other, and the one who survived was the one who gave the right to choose.
The film begins with the warm sunshine of the Italian midsummer afternoon. A gang boss leisurely returns to the mansion, undresses and bathes, and is then pulled into the depths by the underwater Arthur to drown. Then Arthur fled in a familiar dress and returned to his leisurely country residence at the end of the mission.
Jason Statham is also an equally skilled and calm killer in the "Fate Express" series, but several of the series are like NPC missions for him, and the audience praises how powerful he is, but it's just an action movie Movie star symbol. But in this movie, the ubiquitous warm yellow makes the scene more human.
He is alone and brave, but not duckweed and rootless. He has an organization under full control and a master who tries his best to lead. When the two sides face confrontation, he can only stand on one side and bear the backlash that comes from it.
The complexity of human beings lies in this, and cannot be classified into simple good and evil. He kills the master when he thinks the task is reasonable, kills the boss when he thinks he is cheated, and shows the complexity of the master's son - he trains the other party with great patience, and can kill him after the other party does it.
Maybe this is just like the daily life of Jianghu society, limited tenderness, reasonable giving and reward, and double repayment when the other party betrays.
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