Nobody 2

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"Nobody 2 isn't going to redefine the genre or make anyone's top-ten lists of the year, but it fulfills its mission perfectly: entertain its target audience for ninety minutes with inventive, stunt-driven action, sharp humor, and a charismatic lead.

It's one of those cases where the formula, even worn out, still works thanks to competent execution and the collective enthusiasm of cast and crew. If the formula is here to stay, so be it - just keep the smile on my face.

As long as that balance between violence and lightness remains, along with the commitment to creative, stunt-led set pieces, bring on the third one."

Rating: B

I must admit, Id completely forgotten Nobody (2021) when I sat down to watch this, but once it picks up an head of steam its actually quite a good fun, entirely senseless, stream of violence that does raise a smile. Still beholden to The Barber (Colin Salmon) after his first outing, Hutch (Bob Odenkirk) has been carrying out some dangerous tasks to try and reduce his $30 millions debt. After this most recent task, though, he declares that he is going to take an holiday with his wife (Connie Nielsen), his kids and his dad (Christopher Lloyd). They decide to return to one of his childhood haunts but arent there very long before Hutch sees red and is smashing up the people, the furniture, the fruit machines - even a duck-boat, and that earns h...

If I'm recalling George Orwell's 1984 correctly, one passage in the book talked about the blandness and general awfulness of the food offered by the authoritarian state. Cabbage that stank and coffee that wasn't real coffee.

I have to say I've come to feel the same way about a lot of Western entertainment in recent years. It lacks vibrancy, individuality, it lacks flavour.

The latest and I have to say unwanted iteration of "Nobody", the unimaginatively titled "Nobody 2" meets that definition. What made the first film work is precisely why the second film fails. It was a little original the first time around, with a reveal, that is, the suburban father being a talented assassin, no one had expected. With that out of the way whats l...

Younger me would have really liked this. Maybe? Maybe I would have known that it was just rudderless action pasted back to back. It's pretty good but I already saw this with Christina Ricci. She was a better assassin.

Brother is definitely a welcome aspect of this. Never bring a machete to a katana fight is the best line in the film. I may not know because I skipped most of it. It's just a bunch of fighting. Some of it is quite inspired. Most of it is...well if you kill 100 people, can you kill all of them in novel ways? Unfortunately a little repetition seeps in.

1.5 hours. Well done. It only took me about 45 minutes to skip my way to pretty much knowing everything about this. Maybe it was 30 minutes. If you're a teen, you might like...