Hitman's Wifes Bodyguard Review

Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard in it Ryan Reynolds once again playing Michael Bryce the world’s best bodyguard finds himself stripped of his AAA rating and unlicensed, now pay attention to this because this turns out to be very important and is mentioned every two minutes in the movie. So the reason he’s lost his license is that he took a bullet for his mortal enemy Darius Kincaid who’s the world’s most infamous assassin and is played by Samuel L. Jackson. On a forced sabbatical his vacation in Capri is interrupted by the arrival of Kincaid’s wife Sonia played by Salma Hayek who wants Michael’s help to help rescue her husband, who’s been kidnapped and of course hijinks ensue.

Based On

While the Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is a sequel to a script that wasn’t based on an already existing IP it still feels like a stretch to call it original, this sequel does ambitiously aim to be entirely unlike any other movie simply by being so derivative and out now weird that you might think it’s an okay WTF watch.

Review

In the action-packed and familiar world of Michael Bryce a one-time AAA licensed bodyguard whose life was turned upside down in the last movie, the hero is now struggling to deal with his new status quo as an unlicensed bodyguard, he’s in therapy he’s on sabbatical and he’s hating it. But he need not worry as Sonia Kincaid the wife of his old client slash enemy Darius Kincaid needs his help Darius has been kidnapped and while that seems like a movie-length mission to fill the 99 minutes run time the Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard has no interest in a single narrative or even making a modicum of sense.

All this sequel cares about is the high body count outrageous sex scenes between Jackson and Hayek
explosions and whether Michael will get his bodyguard license back.

As the central trio follows their world-ending MacGuffin to many beautiful locations around Europe you can see why three of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces took on this lacklustre script, who doesn’t want an all-expenses-paid European holiday that’s the only relatable part of the film though. The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard doesn’t have the heart or ridiculous sincerity of the fast and the furious films and also doesn’t have the action chops of a John Wick. It seems most indebted to classic action films like Die Hard
and the Back Catalogs of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jean-Claude Van Damme, but it doesn’t nearly have the range.

Script or action set pieces to deliver instead this feels like the kind of film you put on Netflix on a Saturday and spend most of the time going do you just see that to anyone else watching as the stakes and silliness get higher and higher. Samuel Jackson and Ryan Reynolds should be a match made an unexpected team of heaven but while Reynolds should be the straight man to Jackson’s outlandish and rather entertaining Hitman, he is instead just a Zany guy full of quips, who loves being a bodyguard more than life itself.

Some Hayak is clearly having the most fun out of everyone but like most of the Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, it’s unclear whether it’s meant to be an SNL parody of what Hollywood action films are or if this is just what the creators think they can get away with. There are moments of absolute madness where you wish the team had committed fully to the bonkers balls to the wall film they clearly wanted to make at some point. The final act offers a few legitimate laughs but also relies on pure nonsense to get us there.

The film is at its funniest when Michael becomes the victim to the horny hit people he’s been saddled with a sort of Weasley punching bag for their strange sato-masochistic romance. Antonio Banderas also delivers some solid ridiculousness as the Arch Villain that someone in the movie describes as if Liberace a pair of curtains which also sums up the level of humour the film delivers.

Conclusion

Not much to praise here in The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, the script is beyond parody the jokes fall flat and arguably wastes some of Hollywood’s biggest names, but if you want to see lots of people getting blown up in some pretty locations while Salma Hayek and Samuel Jackson make sweet slash gross love while torturing Ryan Reynolds.

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