August 19, 2025
Much to dismay of his family, Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) had to go back to being an assassin full-time to pay off his financial obligations to the criminal organization of the Barber (Colin Salmon). To appease them, Hutch brought his wife Becca (Connie Nielsen), their kids Brady (Gage Munroe) and Sammy (Paisley Cadorath), and his father David (Christopher Lloyd) to an old theme park in small town Plummerville.
While playing games at the arcade, Brady was challenged to a fight by local tough boy Max (Lucius Hoyos), son of the oily theme park owner Wyatt Martin (John Ortiz). When Hutch intervened, he got the goat of the local sheriff Abel (Colin Hanks). All these shady town characters were connected with mobster queen Lendina (Sharon Stone) who was using the town in her massive bootlegging operations.
Indonesian director Timo Tjahjanto makes his English-language debut with this film. Tjahjanto is noted for his direction of the bloody action thriller "The Night Comes for Us" (2018), the first Netflix original production from Indonesia. His skill in executing violence in his action scenes was quite evident here. Brutal as they were, a cartoonish streak of humor was also integrated in these action scenes in the spirit of the first "Nobody,"
Bob Odenkirk embodied Hutch's unremarkable loser look so well, which made Nobody's explosive action scenes more exciting. He was basically the only central cog that was holding this sequel together. The bad guys like Abel and his minions were one-dimensional entities who were predictably going to die various forms of violent deaths to delight the adrenaline junkie audiences who love watching films like this.
Sharon Stone may have been caricaturish in her look and portrayal of the evil Lendina, but she was such a hoot to watch on the big screen. Christopher Lloyd is already 86 years old this year, but he is still quite a joy to watch, you wish he had more to do as a retired ex-FBI agent. The chemistry between Odenkirk and Connie Nielsen as husband and wife felt rather weak in this sequel, negatively affecting that fight climax, albeit predictable. 6/10
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