By Lee Pfeiffer
Director Michael Winner's 1972 film The Mechanic was certainly not a classic, but it was a damned good thriller. Charles Bronson top-lined as a highly skilled assassin for hire. Jan Michael Vincent was a young up-and-comer who he teaches his murderous methods to. Ultimately, the mentor is threatened by the success of his protege - sort of like All About Eve with car bombs. Now director Simon West has a remake about to hit theater screens. Jason Statham and Ben Foster star but the trailer is less-than-promising despite the presence of old pro Donald Sutherland. The trailer is the usual mess of endless explosions and guys running around with both hands on their pistols. It conveys virtually none of the central plotline that made the original so compelling. Let's hope they at least retain the "sting-in-the-tail" surprise ending. Click here to view the new trailer. Click here to view the trailer for the original. What makes this one so bizarre is that it's for a reissue of the movie under the title Killer of Killers!