After a busy week of unimaginative posters for forthcoming releases, up steps another (with thanks to
Empire), a marginally better effort for
Jason Statham's remake of the 1972
Charles Bronson thriller
The Mechanic. Only just, anyway.
Resembling Spider-Man on wash day he's seen casually hanging off the side of a wall with the obligatory gun pointing at some off poster enemy.
Note the terribly overused 'crosshairs on the title' design. It's nowhere near as good as the previous, Saul Bass flavoured effort; The Mechanic is directed by
Con Air's Simon West and finds Statham as an expert assassin used to working alone with no attachments (kinda like The Transporter). He takes on Pandorum's
Ben Foster as a student to avenge the death of his friend (
Donald Sutherland) who is also Foster's father. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39L8egLr518 As probably the most credible British exponent of asskickery in decades, he's got my support whatever. I'll be in line when it opens on January 28th 2011.