{"id":10042228,"date":"2025-08-15T14:09:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/?p=10042228"},"modified":"2025-08-15T14:10:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T18:10:22","slug":"nobody-2-review-have-some-sun-and-gun-with-bob-odenkirk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/2025\/08\/15\/nobody-2-review-have-some-sun-and-gun-with-bob-odenkirk\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Nobody 2’ Review: Have some sun-and-gun with Bob Odenkirk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Unless the studio spends extra on someone like Jim Cameron (either as screenwriter or director), most action franchises benefit from consistency. Timo Tjahjanto\u2019s Nobody 2 <\/em><\/strong>sees that logic and then uses its face to play Whack-a-Mole, much like Bob Odenkirk does in one of the film\u2019s fight scenes. When the delays stacked up and Ilya Naishuller, director of the first installment, moved on to make an off-brand Has Fallen<\/em> movie for Prime Video (it\u2019s weird that they\u2019ve had two of them this year!), Universal saw that God had, in fact, opened a window. They hired Tjahjanto, one of the great action directors of this century, to take over in a fit of Hong Kong invasion-esque wisdom. Consider this the M:I2 <\/em>to the statelier airs of the first one, where pure kinetic cinema replaces logic and reason \u2014 John Woo would be proud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know the score: Hutch Mansell (Odenkirk) is a typical suburban dad, with a loving wife (Connie Nielsen) and two growing children. He\u2019s also one of the world\u2019s most infamous hitmen, with a body count in the hundreds, though he\u2019s in a situation familiar to the strivers on the tree-named streets: He\u2019s in debt. After setting $30 million in mob money alight in the last one, he\u2019s been forced to pick up a lot<\/em> of extra work to pay off the cash he lost, and it\u2019s causing some havoc at home. His wife thinks he\u2019s distant, his kids are acting up, and he realizes that his dreams of a comfortable family life are slipping away from him. So, when he\u2019s reminded of a vacation spot his dad (Christopher Lloyd) took him and his adopted brother (RZA) to as kids, he decides it\u2019s time for some fun in the moderately-priced sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Plummerville isn\u2019t exactly Disneyland, and it\u2019s definitely seen some wear-and-tear since Hutch was last in town, but it\u2019s still one of those fun roadside attractions perfect for making memories, both the good and the bad kinds. Fully-loaded hot dogs at a local dive lead to a staredown with the sheriff (Colin Hanks). Fun times playing Super Shot in the arcade give way to an all-out brawl, where the town\u2019s mayor, resort owner, and small-time pusherman (John Ortiz) winds up murderously enraged at Hutch for hurting his kid\u2019s pitching arm. A Duck Boat tour (which Hutch thinks will be a DUKW boat, as seen on the streets of Boston, and is disappointed to discover that it\u2019s a regular boat with a lot of ducks on it) also turns into a fracas, where the sheriff\u2019s men compete to see how many teeth they can lose. Meanwhile, the big boss (Sharon Stone) starts noticing just how much chaos this \u201cNobody\u201d has caused her drug-smuggling operation, and starts making moves to go Scortched Earth on the Mansells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are, of course, some restraints placed on Tjahjanto compared to what he might do if this were a homegrown production. The absurd<\/em> levels of gore from The Night Comes for Us<\/em> and The Shadow Strays<\/em> have been brought down to something slightly saner, and Odenkirk\u2019s age means that the kind of martial arts expertise he taps into when working with skilled and gifted actors\/stuntmen like Iko Uwais and Joe Taslim is out of the question. Instead, he focuses on the novelty of the setting, and at the heart of every fight sequence, there\u2019s an unwavering joy and fascination with this particular form of Americana. Hence, the Wild Bunch<\/em> at Wally World finale, in which Odenkirk and his not-so Magnificent Seven take on legions of faceless goons by exploiting all of the class-action dangers of the rickety-old riverside theme park. If you\u2019ve envisioned getting hurt on a water slide or smacked by a pendulum ride, well, here\u2019s your nightmare weaponized by Saul Goodman. Again, there\u2019s an amiability to the chaos, assisted by clever casting, with Stone being a particular stand-out. It\u2019s a delight to see her on screen, hamming up the kind of goofy villain role that Mickey Rourke did a variation on in Tsui Hark\u2019s Double Team<\/em>, only she doesn\u2019t have to put up with Dennis Rodman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobody 2 <\/em>will most likely not convert the haters, despite the presence of one of our living action legends behind the camera, but it is a fun, lightweight 89 minutes with a few killer action sequences and good laughs, and no pretensions of being anything more. Tjahjanto and crew understand the mission here: There\u2019s no reason to create a Nobody <\/em>cinematic universe, as hard as their corporate masters might want to squeeze a John Wick<\/em> out of a Bob Odenkirk-shaped stone. But there is a series<\/em> present in the DNA, and it works deliriously well when treated as if it were a sitcom-style premise. Dad got his groove back during the last one; now the whole family\u2019s gone on vacation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe in the next one, he\u2019ll seek out fist therapy because he\u2019s anxious about teaching the kids the facts of life or because he\u2019s pissed about his boy missing the cut for JV ball. It\u2019s swell satirical substance \u2014 the suburban dad\u2019s Falling Down<\/em> power fantasy at its most ridiculous \u2014 and as long as directors like Tjahjanto are steering the ship, I don\u2019t think we\u2019d mind a full season-order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unless the studio spends extra on someone like Jim Cameron (either as screenwriter or director), most action franchises benefit from consistency. Timo Tjahjanto\u2019s Nobody 2 sees that logic and then uses its face to play Whack-a-Mole, much like Bob Odenkirk does in one of the film\u2019s fight scenes. When the delays stacked up and Ilya Naishuller, director of the first installment, moved on to make an off-brand Has Fallen movie for Prime Video (it\u2019s weird that they\u2019ve had two of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":10041371,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19452],"tags":[10494,14647,20180,24029,26409,35645,35646],"class_list":["post-10042228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-filmtv","tag-action","tag-bob-odenkirk","tag-film-review","tag-good-movies","tag-header","tag-nobody-2","tag-timo-tjahjanto"],"yoast_head":"\n'Nobody 2' Review: Have some sun-and-gun with Bob Odenkirk<\/title>\n<meta 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