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The film can be described as [[existentialism|existentialist]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.genordell.com/stores/maison/existFF.htm|title=Existentialist Film Festival}}</ref> featuring characters who have chosen to ignore common rules and beliefs to live life on their own terms, often coming into absurd situations in part through their detachment. Upon being called by a female friend of Steve's who has cut her wrists and is bleeding to death, the main characters stand by and watch dispassionately, giving the girl estimates of the symptoms and time until death, and eventually throwing her the keys to a vehicle and telling her where she can drive to get help. ("If you don't care about your life, why should I?", Steve says.) But paradoxically, even the killers need their own sense of social license, whether a paid contract from a shadowy organization or a traditional motivation for revenge. The development of the plot in the second half of the story also suggests that Bishop is either world-weary and no longer interested in life (and, perhaps knowingly drinks the poisoned wine, since he is aware that Steve is planning to kill him), or that he underestimates Steve's resourcefulness in finding a way to kill him that he cannot anticipate.

 

On May 7 2009, it was announced that director [[Simon West]] would be helming a [[remake]] with [[Jason Statham]] taking the lead role.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118003364.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 |title=West gives 'Mechanic' an overhaul - Entertainment News, Film News, Media |publisher=Variety |date=2008-07-20 |accessdate=2009-05-08}}</ref> The remake opened in the United States on January 28, 2011, making $11,500,000 on its opening weekend.