{"id":346844,"date":"2025-08-15T09:56:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/nobody-2-review-a-quick-cash-grab\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:56:58","slug":"nobody-2-review-a-quick-cash-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/nobody-2-review-a-quick-cash-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobody 2 review \u2013 a quick cash grab"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After the surprise success of 2021<\/span>\u2019s John Wick knock-off Nobody<\/i><\/a>, it comes as no surprise that the Hollywood brain trust has decided to foist a\u00a0quickie sequel onto the world. Nobody 2<\/span><\/i>, from Indonesian filmmaker Timo Tjhajanto who takes the reins from the original\u2019s Ilya Naishuller, provides us with the same film, but this time, sends all the characters on holiday. Tjhajanto himself has previously been trusted with plenty of direct-to-Netflix action titles and is in line to make The Beekeeper 2<\/span><\/i> for them later in the year. Nobody 2<\/span><\/i> shares these streaming sensibilities, offering absolutely no reason to exist other than a\u00a0quick cash grab and to dutifully follow every sequel clich\u00e9 in the\u00a0book.<\/p>\n

Following a\u00a0prologue that mimics a\u00a0motif from the first film counting down repetitive days in suburbia, we\u2019re back with secret tough guy and former army auditor Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk), only this time he\u2019s gone full time assassin. The appeal of Nobody<\/i> and presumably its sequel is much to do with comic actor Odenkirk, playing against type as a\u00a0ruthless, murdering tough guy. We join Hutch as he is paying off around $30<\/span> million in debt he amassed from taking down a\u00a0Russian crime lord empire in the first film by doing these time-consuming hit jobs. So in order to decompress, he takes the family to the small tourist town of Plummerville and violent hijinks ensue.<\/p>\n

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The film doesn\u2019t seem too concerned with what happens from here on in, and sets up a\u00a0bunch of antagonists for Hutch and his reticently clued-in family in order to deploy its meagre action sequences. A\u00a0film with so many fights should live and die by the success of its gory carnage, yet it tries and fails to namecheck the kind of balletic choreography of stronger titles such as The Raid<\/i> or John Wick<\/i>. There\u2019s a\u00a0sluggish predictability and bland execution to the film, and once all the pieces are in place, from corrupt small town sheriff Abel (Colin Hanks) to psychotic drug peddler Lendina (Sharon Stone), it all feels dead in the water. It\u2019s no help that there\u2019s zero characterisation across the board, with Stone especially labouring her character as she tries her best to go full whacko. A\u00a0dog is even cynically produced as a\u00a0cute plot device but is left on the wayside with no real effect on the storyline.<\/p>\n

A film this unwilling to make any sort of profound statement needs to at least be dumb and fun, and it actually manages to be neither. Even though it stresses the importance of family in these life-or-death situations it never stretches to saying anything actually new or interesting on the subject. The finale, a\u00a0bloodier Home Alone<\/i> style battle in a\u00a0water park, sums up the lack of spark this thing really has. No brains, no brawn, nobody cared about making this\u00a0good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n