Mechanic Resurrection Review: 3 Ups & 7 Downs

6. Outrageously Awful CGI & Editing
Mechanic Resurrection Jason Statham
Summit Entertainment

Sadly this one was evident enough from the trailers: this does not at all look like a $40 million movie, but rather something that went straight-to-video.

Throughout, the action sequences rely heavily on insanely bad CGI, especially green screen compositing, astoundingly fake explosions and, during the glass-bottomed swimming pool scene, some CGI water that looks very 1998.

That's not all, though: while Statham's a**-kicking shenanigans do prove intermittently entertaining, the close-quarters fights in particular are hampered by some atrociously ropey editing, such that you may sometimes develop a headache or struggle to figure out exactly what's going on.

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