# El especialista (2011)

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**Original title**: *The Mechanic*
**Runtime**: 93 min
**Genres**: Action, Thriller, Crime
**Directed by**: Simon West
**Written by**: Richard Wenk, Lewis John Carlino
**Starring**: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland, Mini Anden, Tony Goldwyn, Christa Campbell

> *Someone has to fix the problems.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Rainy city streets at dusk a lone pistol 
A professional assassin and his young apprentice 
Simon West helms this lean action thriller.

**Mood tags**: raw, unhinged

**Critic & audience scores**: IMDb 6.5/10 (182133 users) · Rotten Tomatoes 54% · Metacritic 49/100

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