There was a screening of The Mechanic at the Sierra Vista Cinemas in Clovis. It's only 10 min away from my work, and it was free, so why not? I generally like Jason Statham movies. I got off work a lil after 4, and the screening started at 730, so I had some time to kill. After picking up something to eat, I drove around Clovis for a bit.

Clovis is to Fresno as American Canyon is to Vallejo, expect it's more spread out and has more stuff. They have a small mall, "The Mall at Sierra Vista". The inside portion reminded me a lot of Hilltop Mall, but it only single story, old-looking but not too ghetto, 100% less dangerous and/or life-threatening, but 1000% more soul-crushingly depressing (so I guess it really is nothing like Hilltop Mall, but for some reason it hella reminded me of it). It had more stores that were closed down/out of business than open stores. And a lot of the smaller stores weren't chain retailers, they were like mom & pop type of stores. They even had an arcade! The outdoor portion, which is newly built and looks really nice, is basically a ghost town, with no stores at all. Walking around the place, I felt really bad for the mall, the shoppers, the whole city of Clovis. After the pity party, I headed off to the theater.

I figured that if I showed up at the theater around 630, I'd be near the front of the line. Didn't really figure there'd be that many people there. Man, was I wrong. There was about 250 people already in line, which was just about the max capacity of the theater. But I got lucky, cause I was in the last group that they let in. And I didn't have to sit in a neck-break seat.

As for the movie itself, it was just meh. I was not impressed. The kills could've been way more bad-ass. And they seemed to go through a lot of plot points really fast. They could've extended some of them. Well, at least I didn't pay to watch it.