{"id":21207,"date":"2021-06-29T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21207"},"modified":"2021-06-29T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T19:00:09","slug":"nics-flicks-hitmans-wifes-bodyguard-formulaic-generic-forgettable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/06\/29\/nics-flicks-hitmans-wifes-bodyguard-formulaic-generic-forgettable\/","title":{"rendered":"Nic\u2019s Flicks<\/em>: Hitman\u2019s Wife\u2019s Bodyguard<\/em> formulaic, generic, forgettable"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been an active filmgoer all of my life. One of the main things that\u2019s changed in filmmaking over the 26 years that I\u2019ve been alive is widespread caution among filmmakers about making sequels to their successful movies. It\u2019s for good reason: the sequel is something to fear, because if you get it wrong it\u2019s not only tough for everybody who spent the last large chunk of their lives working on the film\u2014there was also a good chance that the movie would tarnish the legacy of the first one.<\/p>\n

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Nic’s Flicks<\/em> is a column about movies (photo by Nicolas Ihmels\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Unfortunately, what Hitman\u2019s Wife\u2019s Bodyguard<\/em>, the formulaic sequel to 2017\u2019s The Hitman Bodyguard<\/em>, proved to me when I sat down in my theatre seat to watch it recently is that, sadly, maybe studios are no longer cautious about making sequels because they care more about making money than making a good movie.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll admit that this movie is not as terrible as it could have been. In fact, I\u2019ll go so far as to say that there is some stuff in it that filmgoers can have a great laugh at. Both Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds bring their A game to the film, and their chemistry is almost as funny as it was in the first movie. Salma Hayek is also very funny in this film; she even out-swears Jackson, and that is really hard to do.<\/p>\n

Sadly, the rest of the movie is just the same old action comedy that you\u2019ve seen a billion times before, and have seen done better. While some of the jokes are delivered very well and got a couple of chuckles out of the audience when I saw the movie, most are stale jokes that reference things like the actors\u2019 reputation for cursing a lot or rehashing old running gags from the first film.<\/p>\n

Also, for a movie that\u2019s, seemingly, supposed to be centred on the premise of a hitman\u2019s wife needing a bodyguard, there\u2019s not much bodyguarding in this film. In fact, I dare say that the hitman\u2019s wife saves the bodyguard more times than the bodyguard saves the hitman\u2019s wife, which is maybe the only bit of subversive smarts in the whole movie\u2026 if it was intentional.<\/p>\n

In short, despite having its funny moments\u2014largely thanks to its killer cast\u2014Hitman\u2019s Wife\u2019s \u00a0Bodyguard<\/em> fails to clear the low bar that was set by its predecessor and is just another okay-yet-generic action romp that\u2019s, ultimately, forgettable.<\/p>\n

Got something to say? Write a letter to the editor at editor@nexusnewspaper.com<\/a>. Letters may be edited for clarity and printed.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve been an active filmgoer all of my life. One of the main things that\u2019s changed in filmmaking over the 26 years that I\u2019ve been alive is widespread caution among filmmakers about making sequels to their successful movies. It\u2019s for good reason: the sequel is something to fear, because if you get it wrong it\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20923,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21224,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21207\/revisions\/21224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}