Arthur Bishop (Charles Bronson) is a very professional hit man , he is the number one killing people with a bullet whose reputation has caught up with him. Bishop makes his missions of the way more mechanic and perfect, for that reason he is known as ¨The mechanic¨. His last assignment results to be the killing an important business man . Stressed and tired plans to get out after one last job. He always works alone but he takes an apprentice (Jan-Michael Vincent) who learns the criminal lessons from his master, both have innumerable ways to murder. Both of whom form a relentless killer team but Bishop is caught in the middle of treason. As hot-headed Jan-Michael Vincent want to off Bronson and attempts to assume the position of top hit-man.
This crime thriller packs intrigue, suspense, noisy action-packed with exciting motorcycle pursuit,explosive excitement, thrills and lots of violence.Bronson with his usual stoic acting displays efficiently his weapons and killing mercilessly his objectives .It's certainly thrilling , though the morality may be questionable , even in this time, as the spectators were clearly on the Bronson's side in spite of being a cruel killer . Bronson as a wealthy murderer for a powerful organization offers the sort of monolithic acting as always. Furthermore, appears a nice secondary cast , as Keenan Wynn , Frank DeKova and brief performance of Jill Ireland, Bronson's wife, as Bishop's love interest, but the romance isn't what this movie is about and director knows his action. It packs atmospheric musical score composed, orchestrated and performed by Jerry Fielding, Sam Peckimpah's usual musician. Colorful cinematography by Richard H. Kline for US filming and Robert Paynter for scenes shot in Napoles where is partially set the action with spectacular scenes of confrontation on road and a yacht. This big hit motion picture is professionally directed by Michael Winner such as the successive films with his main star, Charles Bronson. In the mid-70 Winner had great commercial hit , a box office success he repeated when badly in need of other hit smashes made similar movies, but both, Bronson and Winner teaming again, looked increasingly passionless and mechanical in the later years of their partnership. After directing the successful ¨Death wish¨¨ he made worst sequels in which Bronson-Paul Kersey goes on to torture robbers, all of them inferior and the violence could be deemed excessive, are the following : ¨Death wish II¨ with Jill Ireland and Vincent Gardenia, ¨Death wish III¨ with Ed Lauter and Deborah Raffin. Subsequently Michael Winner career was failed ,alternating some hit as ¨the sentinel¨ and various flops as ¨Firepower,The big sleep,The wicked lady, Appointed with death, A chorus of disapproval, and Bullseye¨.
This crime thriller packs intrigue, suspense, noisy action-packed with exciting motorcycle pursuit,explosive excitement, thrills and lots of violence.Bronson with his usual stoic acting displays efficiently his weapons and killing mercilessly his objectives .It's certainly thrilling , though the morality may be questionable , even in this time, as the spectators were clearly on the Bronson's side in spite of being a cruel killer . Bronson as a wealthy murderer for a powerful organization offers the sort of monolithic acting as always. Furthermore, appears a nice secondary cast , as Keenan Wynn , Frank DeKova and brief performance of Jill Ireland, Bronson's wife, as Bishop's love interest, but the romance isn't what this movie is about and director knows his action. It packs atmospheric musical score composed, orchestrated and performed by Jerry Fielding, Sam Peckimpah's usual musician. Colorful cinematography by Richard H. Kline for US filming and Robert Paynter for scenes shot in Napoles where is partially set the action with spectacular scenes of confrontation on road and a yacht. This big hit motion picture is professionally directed by Michael Winner such as the successive films with his main star, Charles Bronson. In the mid-70 Winner had great commercial hit , a box office success he repeated when badly in need of other hit smashes made similar movies, but both, Bronson and Winner teaming again, looked increasingly passionless and mechanical in the later years of their partnership. After directing the successful ¨Death wish¨¨ he made worst sequels in which Bronson-Paul Kersey goes on to torture robbers, all of them inferior and the violence could be deemed excessive, are the following : ¨Death wish II¨ with Jill Ireland and Vincent Gardenia, ¨Death wish III¨ with Ed Lauter and Deborah Raffin. Subsequently Michael Winner career was failed ,alternating some hit as ¨the sentinel¨ and various flops as ¨Firepower,The big sleep,The wicked lady, Appointed with death, A chorus of disapproval, and Bullseye¨.