The hitmans bodyguard movie reviews12/31/2022 The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is an unfortunate film born out of a studio executive’s spreadsheet. It says so much about a film that relies on Jackson’s many iterations of “motherfucker” for laughs.īullets are fired, cars and helicopters get blown up, filthy expletives are uttered, we cut between some beautiful locales in Italy. Even Jackson can elevate a punchline character like he showed us in the first Kingsman movie, but there’s absolutely nothing to work with here. And it’s a real shame, cos Freeman has one of the best straight faces in a comedy scene. However, in the end it turns out to be as insipid as the rest of the film. The track even achieves some of its potential, thanks to Jackson’s stare of disbelief. There’s a cameo by Morgan Freeman, which seems promising to begin with. Another wisecrack, a wink at the audience, another instance where he practically sticks a finger in the audience’s face to say “Did you notice the genre subversion?” It’s just no fun. There’s a minute when the film hints at an unexpected direction, and right then we cut back to Reynolds’ clueless face where he talks. In his introductory scene, he lectures an EU official on how Greece offered civilisation to the world, and how it ‘took him in’. There’s Antonio Banderas playing a Greek ‘high roller’ named Aristotle, who wants to destroy Europe by ‘uploading a virus’, in a bid to stop another round of EU’s economic sanctions on Greece. She might as well have screamed “cos it’s a goddamn sequel” and even that would’ve seemed less contrived. Why should he help her? “He asked for you,” Sonia tells Bryce. A few scenes later Bryce is intercepted by Sonia Kincaid (Hayek) to help rescue Darius, who happens to have been taken by the mob. “Within what?” asks Bryce, given Reynolds’ inability to let a minute pass without trying to provoke a laugh. A therapist suggests he take some time off from “bodyguarding” and focus within. He sees Samuel L Jackson’s Daruis Kincaid in his nightmares. It all begins with Michael Bryce (Reynolds) not having moved past the events of the first film. Alas, Jackson and Hayek’s filthy banter becomes painful to endure pretty quickly. We get more of Reynolds’ Oh-look-at-me-try-so-hard hero, Jackson’s familiar profanity and a fully unhinged Salma Hayek looking to have some fun on a movie set. It’s telling how Reynolds, who many couldn’t stop gushing about for the clever marketing blitz around the first Deadpool, can’t elicit a single laugh in nearly two hours.Ī sequel to 2017’s The Hitman’s Bodyguard, which was mildly fun because of the discordant banter between Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson, the 2021 film offers absolutely nothing. But the novelty has worn off, and the party seems to be over. The actor, who reinvented his career by making fun of his less-successful exploits with the help of a superhero who repeatedly breaks the fourth wall, has witnessed a new wave of stardom and adoration on social media. If there ever was a doubt about Ryan Reynolds’ witty, self-deprecating, bursting with pop-culture references persona becoming less fun after Deadpool 2, then The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is further confirmation.
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