# Identify this Charles Bronson movie please. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2011, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-charles-bronson-movie-please/597749 "2011-09-27T08:41:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-charles-bronson-movie-please/597749/1 "2011-09-27T08:41:30Z")
Near the end of the movie, Bronson’s assistant double crosses him and kills him. Then the movie ends showing the assistant entering his car where he finds a note left by Bronson (or was it a cassete?) essentially saying “If you can read this it means you killed me”. Then the car goes boom. Which movie was that? ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-charles-bronson-movie-please/597749/2 "2011-09-27T08:50:29Z")
[The Mechanic.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068931/) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-charles-bronson-movie-please/597749/3 "2011-09-27T08:50:52Z")
80% sure it was The Mechanic with Jan-Michael Vincent ---
**Author:** ![Dog80](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Dog80](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dog80)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2011, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-charles-bronson-movie-please/597749/4 "2011-09-27T11:04:33Z")
Thank you! I also just realized that the Mechanic movie with Jason Statham is a remake of the old one! I’m off to see both movies! ---
**Author:** ![Jaledin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jaledin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaledin)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-charles-bronson-movie-please/597749/5 "2011-09-29T05:25:31Z")
Didn’t know there was a remake. I think I’ll skip that one, no offense. Slightly OT, how does one correctly pronounce Jan Michael-Vincent? I always wondered. “The Mechanic” is a pretty good movie, though, I will add. ---
**Author:** ![puddleglum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puddleglum/32/137_2.png) [@puddleglum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puddleglum)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-charles-bronson-movie-please/597749/6 "2011-09-29T14:30:29Z")
Jan is pronounced like the second daughter on the Brady Bunch and Micheal and Vincent are pronounced as usual. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-charles-bronson-movie-please/597749/7 "2011-09-29T15:22:18Z")
Not to be confused with the Christian Bale film _The Machinist_, despite my brain’s repeated efforts to do so. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2011, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identify-this-charles-bronson-movie-please/597749/8 "2011-09-29T15:43:49Z")
> [@Jaledin](#): > > Didn’t know there was a remake. I think I’ll skip that one, no offense. Wise decision, in my opinion. The remake goes overboard on some of the action. The final scene in particular was far better in the original, both physically plausible and dramatically engaging, neither of which I can say for the remake.