Mechanic: Resurrection

Sorry Jason Statham fans, but his movie has the honor of being the first Rotten Apple I have seen since I started this blog over six months ago.  The writing is sub par, the acting nonexistant and the action very pedestrian.  Jason plays a “mechanic,” or hired hit man, who staged his own death so that he can have a quiet, ordinary life in Rio.  Of course, he gets pulled back in because of an implausiable plot device involving Jessica Alba as the least convincing orphanage worker I have ever seen in a movie.  Of course, there was the obligatory and completely  unnecessary shot of her swimming underwater.  The highlight of the movie was when Statham shot and killed a whole clown car full of bad guys lurking on a boat.  In other words, I would skip this one!