 In 2005 , Lundgren starred and directed his second picture The Mechanik ( The Russian Specialist ) , playing a retired Russian Special Forces hit man Nikolai " Nick " Cherenko caught in the crossfire with Russian mobsters . Sky Movies remarked that The Mechanik is " hardcore death @-@ dealing from the Nordic leviathan " and said that " The Mechanik delivers all the no @-@ nonsense gunplay you 'd want of a Friday night " . 
