If anything, at least the film knows what it is. If it wasn’t already clear, the why of it all is not important here. The obnoxious nature of the characters made those scenes tiresome to watch so of course there were a lot of them. That combative contrast was done to death for comedic effect which only got old very fast.
Hijinks ensued as Bryce often found himself out of his depth in situations that were usually two against one. Like each other or not, they certainly didn’t, they and their eccentric relationship would unsurprisingly be tested as they would have to work together.
This time around at least, the end result is an obnoxious mess that never aspires to be anything more than that, never offering much in the way of a plot or even bothering with the action sequences, and instead tries way too hard to be outrageous which was just irritating more than anything else.Īs mentioned, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard doesn’t offer much in the way of plot while the film’s title is kind of misleading as it is essentially a series of increasingly ridiculous tropey situations involving our hitman Darius Kincaid (Jackson), his wife Sonia (Hayek), and the bodyguard Michael Bryce (Reynolds) tied together by a nonsensical plot that didn’t really matter and that most audiences will probably forget very quickly so there’s no point in saying anything more about it. Suffice it to say that those who didn’t like the original film will not change their minds here. Jackson, and Salma Hayek, this film doubles down on the dumbness and the over-the-top nature of the original but the problem with that was that it’s no longer 2017 and that formula no longer works now in 2021 or maybe those stars can no longer make up for those issues. Despite the obvious star power in front of the camera, including returning stars Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L.
One can only go back to that well so many times and as far as The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, the sequel to The Hitman’s Bodyguard, is concerned, twice is one time too many.
The original Hitman’s Bodyguard was a divisive film amongst critics and audiences and was merely dumb fun though dumb fun is a fine line with arguably a limited shelf life.