dolph have really do it . the mechanik be an action movie at it best . it have everything an action flick need . a good guy and a bad guy and shooting and close combat and blood and broken bone and a huge death count at the ( happy ) end . the story be very simple . nikolai cherenko ( lundgren ) be a former spetznas ( russian special force ) who and after his family be kill by a mafia bos and go to the u to work a a mechanic . after 7 year a lady come to him and want to hire him to save here daughter which be kidnap by the same gangster . nick finally take the job but of course it be not about the money but all about vengeance . he get a backup team and from here on the story and the end be quite predictable . but it be not the story that make this movie a must see . it be the detail and and mostly it be what the movie leave out . you would not find long dialog about morale and ethic and heroism in term of leave me behind i be just slow you down . and then the obligatory never i would rather die . there be also no long man on man fight . what do you do if a black belt attack you . well if it would bee any other movie and such a situation would develop into a 1 hour bare hand fight . but not here . take your gun and shoot him . it be that simple . a very similar situation and the bad guy fall to the ground and lose his gun . wait till he get up . continue the fight without weapon . bah . you be stand and he be on the ground and you have get a gun and he hasn not . shoot him . not very honorable and but very fast and effective . after all he be there to get the girl not to win a karate tournament . at the end and the mechanik be not your typical action flick . the hero be not as heroic a you would perhaps like to have him . he be not do all this because it be the right thing and but because he want to see blood . the mechanik be a great action movie and just like in the good old time when action do not try to bee anything else and but simply action . it be simple and violent and direct and pure a the best russian vodka . a must see .