Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) is a ‘mechanic’ an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets.  It’s a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment and Bishop is the best in the business. But when his mentor and close friend Harry (Donald Sutherland) is murdered, Bishop is anything but detached.  His next assignment is self imposed, he wants those responsible dead. His mission grows complicated when Harry’s son Steve (Ben Foster) approaches him with the same vengeful goal and a determination to learn Bishop’s trade. Bishop has always acted alone but he can’t turn his back on Harry’s son.  A methodical hit man takes an impulsive student deep into his world and a deadly partnership is born.  But while in pursuit of their ultimate mark, deceptions threaten to surface and those hired to fix problems become problems themselves.
Jason Statham as Arthur Bishop
Jason Statham is an English actor and martial artist his films include Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), Snatch (2000), Turn It Up (2000), John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars (2001), The One (2001), Mean Machine (2001), The Transporter (2002), The Italian Job (2003), Collateral (2004), Cellular (2004), Transporter 2 (2005), London (2005), Revolver (2005), Chaos (2005), Crank (2006), In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007), War (2007), The Bank Job (2008), Death Race (2008), Transporter 3 (2008), Crank 2 High Voltage (2009), Blitz (2010), 13 (2010), The Expendables (2010) and The Mechanic (2011).

Ben Foster as Steve McKenna
Ben Foster is an American actor his films include Kounterfeit (1997), Liberty Heights (1999), Get Over It (2001), Big Trouble (2002), Bang Bang You’re Dead (2002), Phone Booth (2002), Northfork (2003), Reflex (2003), The Punisher (2004), The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004), Hostage (2005), Alpha Dog (2006), X-Men: The Last Stand (2006), 3:10 to Yuma (2007), 30 Days of Night (2007), Birds of America (2008), The Messenger (2009), Blink (2009), Pandorum (2009), Here (2011) and The Mechanic (2011).    He has appeared in TV series such as Flash Forward, You Wish, Freaks and Geeks, Family Law, Boston Public, The Dead Zone, Six Feet Under and My Name Is Earl.

Donald Sutherland as Harry McKenna
Donald Sutherland is a Canadian actor with a film career spanning nearly 50 years.  Some of Sutherland’s more notable movie roles included offbeat warriors in such war movies as The Dirty Dozen (1967) and MASH and Kelly’s Heroes in 1970. He is the father of actor Kiefer Sutherland.   His films include The World Ten Times Over (1963), Castle of the Living Dead (1964), Dr Terror’s House of Horrors (1965), Fanatic (1965), The Bedford Incident (1965), Promise Her Anything (1965), The Dirty Dozen (1967), Billion Dollar Brain (1967), Sebastian (1968), Interlude (1968), Oedipus the King (1968), The Split (1968), Joanna (1968), M.A.S.H (1970), Start the Revolution Without Me (1970), Kelly’s Heroes (1970), Act of the Heart (1970), Alex in Wonderland (1970), Little Murders (1971), Johnny Got His Gun (1971), Klute (1971), Steelyard Blues (1973), Lady Ice (1973), Don’t Look Now (1973), Alien Thunder (1974), S*P*Y*S (1974), The Day of the Locust (1975), End of the Game (1975), 1900 (1976), Fellinin Casanova (1976), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), The Disappearance (1977), Blood Relatives (1978), National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), Murder by Decree (1979), The First Great Train Robbery (1979), A Man, a Woman and a Bank (1979), Bear Island (1979), Nothing Personal (1980), Ordinary People (1980), Eye of the Needle (1981), Gas (1981), Threshold (1981), Max Dugan Returns (1983), Crackers (1984), Heaven Help Us (1985), Ordeal by Innocence (1985), Revolution (1985), Oviri (1986), The Rosary Murders (1987), The Trouble with Spies (1987), Apprentice to Murder (1988), Lost Angels (1989), Lock Up (1989), A Dry White Season (1989), Eminent Domain (1990), Buster’s Bedroom (1991), Backdraft (1991), Cerro Torre Scream of Stone (1991), JFK (1991), Bethune: The Making of a Hero (1992), The Railway Station Man (1992), Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), The Setting Sun (1992), Shadow of the Wolf (1992), Benefit of the Doubt (1993), Younger and Younger (1993), Red Hot (1993), Six Degrees of Separation (1993), Punch (1994), The Puppet Masters (1994), Disclosure (1994), Outbreak (1995), Hollow Point (1996), A Time to Kill (1996), Shadow Conspiracy (1997), The Assignment (1997), Fallen (1998), Without Limits (1998), Free Money (1998), Virus (1999), Instinct (1999), Panic (2000), Space Cowboys (2000), The Art of War (2000), Da wan (2001), Five Moons Plaza (2003), The Italian Job (2003), Baltic Storm (2003), Cold Mountain (2003), Aurora Borealis (2005), Fierce People (2005), Pride & Prejudice (2005), American Gun (2005), An American Haunting (2005), Land of the Blind (2006), Ask the Dust (2006), Sleepwalkers (2007), Reign Over Me (2007), Puffball (2007), Fool’s Gold (2008), The Con Artist (2010) and The Mechanic (2011).    He has appeared in TV series such as The Odd Man, The Sentimental Agent, Court Martial, Gideon’s Way, The Saint, The Avengers, The Champions, Commander in Chief, Dirty Sexy Money and The Pillars of the Earth.
Tony Goldwyn as Dean Sanderson
Tony Goldwyn is an American actor and director he is best known for his role as the villain Carl Bruner in Ghost (1990).  His films include Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Live (1986), Gaby: A True Story (1987), Ghost (1990), Kuffs (1992), Traces of Red (1992), The Pelican Brief (1993), The Last Tattoo (1994), Pocahontas: The Legend (1995), The Last Word (1995), Reckless (1995), Nixon (1995), The Substance of Fire (1996), Kiss the Girls (1997), Trouble on the Corner (1997), The Lesser Evil (1998), The 6th Day (2000), Bounce (2000), An American Rhapsody (2001), Abandon (2002), Joshua (2002), Beyond the Ashes (2003), The Last Samurai (2003), The Godfather of Green Bay (2005), The Sisters (2005), Ghosts Never Sleep (2005), Romance & Cigarettes (2005), American Gun (2005), The Last House on the Left (2009) and The Mechanic (2011),     He has appeared in TV series such as St Elsewhere, Matlock, Designing Women, L.A Law, Hunter, Tales from the Crypt, Frasier, Without a Trace, Dexter, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and The Good Wife.

Christa Campbell as Kelly
Christa Campbell is an American actress who started her career in horror films.    Her films include Desire L.A (2000), Red Letters (2000), The Crew (2000), Looking for Bobby D (2001), The New Guy (2002), Malibu’s Most Wanted (2003), The Drone Virus (2004), 2001 Maniacs (2005), Crazy in Love (2005), Death by Engagement (2005), End Game (2006), Lonely Hearts Killers (2006), Relative Strangers (2006), The Wicker Man (2006), Blizhniy Boy: The Ultimate Fighter (2007), Cleaner (2007), Hallows Point (2007), Showdown at Area 51 (2007), Blonde Ambition (2007), Hero Wanted (2008), Day of the Dead (2008), Audie & the Wolf (2008), Gurdian (2009), Finding Bliss (2009), The Tomb (2009), Labor Pains (2009), Lies & Illusions (2009), 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams (2010), Hyenas (2010), Cool Dog (2010), Blood: A Butcher’s Tale (2010), Gun (2010), The Mechanic (2011) and Drive Angry (2011).   She has appeared in TV series such as Pacific Blue, All That, Erotic Confessions, Unhappily Ever After, Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Summerland.
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