The story of the Hitman's wife's Bodyguard

 

The hitman's wife's bodyguard once again

stars ryan reynolds and samuel l jackson

salma hayek gets a much bigger role this

time around

and antonio banderas is here to destroy

europe

i went to the theaters tonight i don't

know what else to say

michael bryce is now an unlicensed

bodyguard and very sad about that and

when he runs into darius and sonya

kinkade once again

he's driven over the edge by their

collective insanity i thought the first

film was fine

i'm surprised there'sa sequel but

obviously when there's success and you

have a-list stars

there's going to be more this movie is

exactly

what you would expect it to be it's

another one

i don't know but like a lot of sequels

you can tell the film exists because

they're trying to make more money

more than likely if a studio came to the

people who make these movies and said

we'd like you to make another hitman's

bodyguard movie they'd just say okay

let's do it

whereas if you go to say like johnkrasinski and say i want to make quiet

place three he's probably going to say

well

give me a while to see if it's even

worth it because i want to see if i can

make a good movie

or a film it's at least as good or

better there are sequels

and then there are sequels the hitman's

wife's bodyguard

is a sequel it's just a movie where

people run around and

antonio banderas is literally trying to

upload a virus to destroy europe

but i will say there is a place for

films like this i mean i

really enjoyed going to the theater

tonight and i enjoyed

mindlessly watching a film that was

incredibly stupid

and very very lame quite often and if

you're going on a date to this movie

you'll probably have a good time you'll

when you guys go out to dinner

afterwards and it won't even

register in your brain but you at least

escaped

from the reality of the real world for

maybe 90 minutes and that's where these

moviesexist hitman's wife's bodyguard has

aspirations to do

nothing else but that and in that way

the film

is a success but in virtually every

other way it's it's kind of a colossal

failure the script is incredibly stupid

uh

the plot makes no sense at all it's it's

very difficult to follow

antonio banderas and his luscious voice

is basically just there to say random

evil things and occasionally

threaten people samuel l jackson is very

much so

on vacation and ryan reynolds is a very

likable actor and he does what he does

very well in this movie

i would say selma hayek does the most

interesting stuff actually in the film

i liked her quite a bit she's very

violent and angry she curses more than

samuel | jackson in the movie which is a

major thing to say and i would say she's

the reason to see the movie if you ever

do decide to see the movie that being

said

it's very clear that in post

they either rework things around

plot-wise or they realize they didn't

address the plot enough because there isadr in the middle of action sequences

Sometimes you can even tell that the

characters aren't saying

what you're hearing them say just by the

way their lips move

but there's a lot of cutaways to

helicopters or car chases or motorcycles

or whatever

and you'll hear them blurting out lines

that are

important plot elements like frank

grillo justsays antonio banderas is uploading the

virus right now to europe he's going to

destroy

europe and it's he's not even on screen

saying that but

it's just like a reminder to us things

like that happen in the movies

all the time and it's not worth

mentioning because of how common it is

unless it happens like a dozen times or

more

like in this movie this movie also falls

into that trap of having characters that

are con artists but not really knowing

how to present that

in an intriguing way they'll just have

characters make insanely dramatic

shifts from scene to scene and it's a

very cheap way of writing a con artist

character

you just establish them as one thing in

a scene the next Scene they're something

completely else

and there's no nuance to it you can tell

the people who made this movie hadcertain priorities plot and character

probably wasn't really one of them

catering to its a-list stars that was

probably pretty high on their list

still despite its incredible stupidity

the movie has a few entertaining

sequences especially early on

establishing ryan reynolds character as

Someone who no longer wants to be

involved in bodyguarding

he doesnt want to touch guns he just

wants to carry pepper spray

he doesn't want to be involved in any of

this anymore and so that creates Some

tension

we've seen this done before in movies

where you have characters who are

known

for kind of being a badass who are like

no i'm not gonna touch guns anymore

uh the rock and the rundown for instance

which side note the rundown or welcome

to the jungle as it is known in some

other places

is awesome and you should watch