Post by Doomsday on May 16, 2021 17:42:40 GMT -5
Nobody
Casting Bob Odenkirk in as an action star is, to put it lightly, thinking a little outside the box. He's not exactly the most physically imposing or debonair figure and he's more known for his comedic chops, not to mention the fact that he's pushing 60. But hey, if people want to throw someone new into the action scene there are definitely worse people you could pick. Odenkirk stars as Hutch, a family man who works for his father in law (Michael Ironside, nice!) with a wife and family who hardly notices he's there. One day his house gets broken into and his son is assaulted. With everyone thinking he's a wimp a fire is lit and his old skills are unleashed. Oh and in case the previews didn't give it away, he used to be a highly skilled CIA assassin. A chance encounter on a bus with some Russian thugs puts him in the path of some Russian gangsters who want to do away with him which leads to some familiar shootouts and car chases and by the end the paper-thin baddies are vanquished and his family looks at him in a whole new light. I think given the political climate we live in these days Russians are probably the only group of that you can safely cast as bad guys these days without someone throwing up a red flag but I've never met too many Russians, certainly not enough to constitute an entire endless gang of criminals who can be killed en masse. Maybe it's an east coast thing.
While the concept, albeit simplistic, is fun and easy to wrap your head around, the action feels like it's a lot of John Wick B-roll, a bunch of stuff we've seen already but done better. It sometimes tries to be more shocking because you can only see people getting shot in the head in so many ways. Why we needed to see Hutch perform a tracheotomy on a guy he just beat half to death is something I still don't understand but like I said it tries to push that line in a few different ways. It also seems to run out of steam toward the end while giving us a climax that's almost the same as that in the first Equalizer movie only we're also given Christopher Lloyd shotgunning a bunch of guys. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing but I'll take it I suppose. Ultimately Nobody has a thin story that really could have used a little more beef to it but it thought it could get by on the action. To a degree it does but it's not exactly a movie I would sit down and rewatch on a rainy day. There are plenty of better action movies that fit that bill. If you're really interested just wait until it's a few bucks or free on a streaming app, you might be a little miffed if you throw down a Jackson for it.
B- so says Doomsday
Casting Bob Odenkirk in as an action star is, to put it lightly, thinking a little outside the box. He's not exactly the most physically imposing or debonair figure and he's more known for his comedic chops, not to mention the fact that he's pushing 60. But hey, if people want to throw someone new into the action scene there are definitely worse people you could pick. Odenkirk stars as Hutch, a family man who works for his father in law (Michael Ironside, nice!) with a wife and family who hardly notices he's there. One day his house gets broken into and his son is assaulted. With everyone thinking he's a wimp a fire is lit and his old skills are unleashed. Oh and in case the previews didn't give it away, he used to be a highly skilled CIA assassin. A chance encounter on a bus with some Russian thugs puts him in the path of some Russian gangsters who want to do away with him which leads to some familiar shootouts and car chases and by the end the paper-thin baddies are vanquished and his family looks at him in a whole new light. I think given the political climate we live in these days Russians are probably the only group of that you can safely cast as bad guys these days without someone throwing up a red flag but I've never met too many Russians, certainly not enough to constitute an entire endless gang of criminals who can be killed en masse. Maybe it's an east coast thing.
While the concept, albeit simplistic, is fun and easy to wrap your head around, the action feels like it's a lot of John Wick B-roll, a bunch of stuff we've seen already but done better. It sometimes tries to be more shocking because you can only see people getting shot in the head in so many ways. Why we needed to see Hutch perform a tracheotomy on a guy he just beat half to death is something I still don't understand but like I said it tries to push that line in a few different ways. It also seems to run out of steam toward the end while giving us a climax that's almost the same as that in the first Equalizer movie only we're also given Christopher Lloyd shotgunning a bunch of guys. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing but I'll take it I suppose. Ultimately Nobody has a thin story that really could have used a little more beef to it but it thought it could get by on the action. To a degree it does but it's not exactly a movie I would sit down and rewatch on a rainy day. There are plenty of better action movies that fit that bill. If you're really interested just wait until it's a few bucks or free on a streaming app, you might be a little miffed if you throw down a Jackson for it.
B- so says Doomsday
