Do you ever get the feeling when you have a typical
movie night but all of a sudden you movie night feels trashed all because of
the movie, then you just feel so angry you don't know how to describe that
anger? Well this was one of those movie nights we're I felt my night was ruined
and I had to find a backup plan quickly, but well get to that later. Usually
there are times when you look at a sequel to an awesome movie with two actors
who provided great chemistry work, you'd think if they couldn't go wrong. Well,
unfortunately there comes a time where you should just quit while your ahead
when making a smash hit like The Hitman's Bodyguard. Though sadly, director
Patrick Hughes really should of made the decision to quite while you’re still
ahead because really when you try so hard to make a sequel better than the first
you always know you’re going to fail. Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson
return for the sequel with Salma Hayek along for the ride. Regrettably there's
a famous saying "Two's a company, Three's a crowd" that's best going
to describe why this isn't as amazing as the original.
The World’s most lethal couple--bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan
Reynolds) and hit man Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson)--are back for another
life threatening mission Still unlicensed (which is weird because I assumed he
was going to be licensed after the first movie ended) and under scrutiny, Bryce
is forced into action by Darius's even more volatile wife (Salma Hayek). Soon,
all three are in over their heads when a madman's sinister plot threatens to
leave Europe into chaos.
This movie is a clear definition of sequels never being as
good as the original was. And the sad thing was, that I actually thought this
was going to be good and then I watch the movie and I'm just thinking to myself
"I can't believe, I'm still watching this" It wasn't the fact that
yes Sam Jackson can save a film as always but there really wasn't enough of Sam
Jackson and I wanted more of Sam Jackson making fun of Ryan Reynolds because
that's what made the original film great. But no we have to split the
difference with both Sam and Salma Hayek, which deep down is really not as fun,
furthermore the jokes aren't even funny as well especially when you have a
character like Frank Grillo whose supposed to be this Boston agent in Interpol
and makes trash talk with a Scottish female agent, in which I would apply to
Grillo "don't quite your day job". The one plot hole which doesn't
make sense to me is that Reynolds character is still unemployed for which I
would think he was employed and yet was haunted by Kincaid but yet he's still
unemployed and what happened to his girlfriend from the first movie? Moreover
why would I ever want to feel sorry for Reynolds character when the movie is
telling me to feel sorry for this guy, since were giving a little side origin
story about him, which is why I'm going to say this a million times when it
comes to this movie never cut screen time with Samuel L. Jackson, you should
always give that man a hundred percent of the screen time no matter how bad you
movie is. Even Morgan Freeman doesn't save this movie, in which if I was making
this movie I would have him at least explain the whole movie, but Freeman is
another clear example of how lazy a movie can be especially when Freeman is
playing Reynolds Dad furthermore are making the usual joke of a character that
is white who just so happens to have a Dad that's black, because the movie is
trying to desperately explain that we've never seen that before, especially
when the punch line of the joke says the son is adopted. Now I hopefully
explained how bad this movie was and hope that I saved you into not wanting to
watch this movie. But yet this was a movie that still angers me in thinking
about but luckily, I found another movie to watch that took a little bit of the
steam out of me, but that conversation will have to continue for another
time.
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