Bob Odenkirk’s unlikely transformation into an action star was one of 2021’s highlights with the release of ‘Nobody, where he played Hutch, a former lethal weapon government agent now retired to the suburbs. Earning a modest $57m off its small $16m budget with good word of mouth a sequel was assured with Hutch seeing off an entire gang of brutal Russian gangsters and burning tons of their money. Well Nobody 2 now sees him in debt to the mob and having to carry out hits until the £30m is paid off.
But its taking its toll on his family life at a time when he had retired so as a bit of family bonding he takes them all off to a summer water park resort that his father, the enjoyably curmudgeonly Christopher Lloyd took him and will tag along with them too when they return to the resort. But wherever Hutch goes harm soon follows when he crosses the path of a corrupt sheriff (Colin Hanks) who is in the pay of vengeful local crime boss Lendina ( Sharon Stone introduced in a brutal roulette scene devised by co-writer Derek Kolstad that puts anything in Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ to shame. Having crossed their paths revenge is now the order of the day and the carnage commences in the expected style from director Timo Tjahjanto who has an extensive back catalogue in horror so you know how brutal this will get. So when an incident in an amusement arcade spirals its off we go again.
Much like the first film Hutch is up against seemingly impossible odds as wave after wave of heavily armed or ferocious fighters come at him in set pieces within the amusement arcade, on a boat ( a nod to match the first films bravura bus scene) and a climactic battle in the funfair itself with rides given fatal upgrades. But this sequel misses much of the charm of the first film, story structure and the stand out moments of on screen action to equal if not top those in the first and it all gets a bit relentlessly formulaic and that trope of giving classic songs a makeover are here almost instantly and forgettably reworked.
The always terrific Sharon Stone as Lendina is something of a one note character in this (as was the case with the first films bad guy) and is underused and still stunning at 67 years of age she’s been unsympathetically lit here. Connie Nielsen steps up to the plate nicely with an expanded role and Bob Odenkirk is charmingly world weary as he’s dragged back into the furore but at a brief 92 minutes Nobody 2 is a fun way to round off the summer blockbuster season.
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Here’s the Nobody 2 trailer……
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