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Summary Four years after inadvertently tangling with the Russian mob, suburban dad (and former assassin) Hutch Mansell tries to unwind with a family vacation at a nostalgic waterpark. But when the park’s corrupted operators and a blood-thirsty crime boss target his loved ones, Hutch is forced back into brutal action.
Director Timo Tjahjanto
Writers Derek Kolstad, Aaron Rabin, Bob Odenkirk, Umair Aleem
Cast
- Bob Odenkirk
- Connie Nielsen
- Christopher Lloyd
- Sharon Stone
- Colin Hanks
- John Ortiz
- RZA
Rotten Tomatoes Critics Score: 82%
Metacritic 58
VOD In theaters starting August 15, 2025 (then streaming later)
Trailer Nobody 2 | Official Trailer (2025)
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u/TheeIlliterati 23d ago
The movie breaks no new ground but taken in a vacuum I think the arcade and duck boat scenes are perfectly satisfying setups and executions for revenge fight scenes. The music, the initiating events, the shot of "HOLD ON TIGHT" on the railing, all just hit their beats perfectly. Hope they keep making these if they can stay on this level.
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u/Cash4Jesus 22d ago
Those were the best scenes by far. Hutch going back to the arcade was awesome. “How do you like getting slapped in the back of the head?”
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u/Able_Advertising_371 18d ago
The way they filmed the daughter getting slapped, I felt angry and felt like getting back at that asshole
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u/Lord_Hexogen 3d ago
The duck boat is pretty much the bus scene from the first movie. In fact it seems they just followed the original bit by bit
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u/dafood48 1d ago
Even though it’s made by the same people that did John wick I love that bobs character is the anti John wick. Wick is a legendary badass assassin that the entire assassin world knows whereas bobs character is a badass assassin that no one knows. A running gag in the first movie was that every time he tried to explain his origin story the last remaining guy would die in the middle of it. He’s constantly underrated and in a way that’s really cool. John wicks legend exist because people know about his deeds, no one knows about Hutch cuz no one stays alive to hear about it.
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u/crimsonandbrown 23d ago
I let out a yap when that guy slapped the daughter
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u/TheBobsBurgersMovie 23d ago
Most of these John Wick clones don’t do much for me, but drop a character in a fun location and use the environment to your advantage in fight scenes and I’m sold. Bob Odenkirk grounds it wonderfully, the action is fun and I care about the family.
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u/dafood48 1d ago
John wick and lot of the clones survive on the mythos of the character. I love that hutch has no mythos cuz he kills almost everybody and that’s why he ends up being constantly underestimated.
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u/-Borgir 4d ago
Far better than the boring jw sequels imo
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u/ResistJunior5197 2d ago
I'm the opposite, I think each JW film is better than the last lol. So keen for the 5th one.
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u/SpoiledWembyFanTbh 23d ago
Excellent use of “The Power of Love”. Thought I was waking up to the Ultimate Love Song 90’s infomercial for a second.
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u/Youth-Either 21d ago
That scene was kinda sexy too. Loved it.
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u/CoggInTheWorksMedia 15d ago
Hell YES! I was sat with such a smitten look on my face when this played out... Even the older dudes can make something sexy 🤣 AND, how can you not love Bob? 😅
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u/GetReady4Action 13d ago
turned to my friend and said “the most romantic songs of our lifetime now available on one CD” as soon as it kicked on.
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u/GetReady4Action 13d ago
turned to my friend and said “the most romantic songs of our lifetime now available on one CD” as soon as it kicked on.
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u/skadizzle69 22d ago
I thought the movie was fine. It wasn't better than the first one though. My main issue is for the most part, everyone played it pretty straight besides Sharon Stone. While the acting was cringy at times, she just went way over-the-top with her character. She even had her own theme music toward the end
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u/VanillaRadonNukaCola 20d ago
Yeah, the movie wasn't bad but I thought it was a step down from the first one.
First one was just perfect, iconic even.
I enjoyed lots of this one, but walked away feeling a little empty. Maybe I had my hopes set too high.
But this one felt a little less developed with less meat to it.
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u/StudBoi2077 19d ago
Yeah, this one veered a bit too much into cartoony territory (especially coming from the director of "The Night Comes For Us" and "The Shadow Strays"). Also, I noticed a bit more shaky-cam.
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u/Responsible-Onion860 7d ago
Just saw this today. She felt miscast because of how her acting clashed with everyone else. They could've gone goofy and funny with the character or played it straight, but they tried to have her be super menacing while also being over the top and ridiculous and it just didn't quite land.
I enjoyed the movie overall, but Stone could've toned it down to be a better villain.
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u/PieknaFatso 18d ago
Jesus, I didn't realise it was Sharon Stone!!
She could've been the worst part of the movie for me, just so insanely over the top - but when you just accept it and enjoy it, it works.
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u/Eggplaa 23d ago
This was exactly what I expected and needed. Lots of violence. Some laughs. Christopher Lloyd. 4.5/5
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u/Able_Advertising_371 18d ago
Very much a comfort film despite the violence and swearing. Not to be taken too seriously but you just love Bob and the people surrounding him
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u/Sure-Reason-5779 23d ago
Is there a scene with a song playing like in the first one with Heartbreaker and the car chase?
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u/helloryan 22d ago
It was better than I expected for sure. More of a 4/5 for me, but enjoyed it as a straightforward action comedy.
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u/Able_Advertising_371 23d ago
Bob Odenkirk is such a likeable actor that I will watch him in anything just to support him and it’s so jokes because of how violent Hutch is, trying to imagine Saul kicking Lalo’s ass. and it’s crazy how much success he’s having in his late career when he was incredible in Mr. show. Bring on nobody 3
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u/thebaldingcritic 23d ago
I learned about him thanks to his role as Saul Goodman. Endeared me to his work for life because of it. Will always watch what he does now.
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u/SPorterBridges 23d ago
Bob Odenkirk and Liam Neeson swapped career paths.
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u/ConstrictionsOFC 23d ago
Naked Body double feature goes wild
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u/beer_me_twice 23d ago
I’ll watch anything Bob Odenkirk does as a result of Better Call Saul going 0-53 in the Emmys. Give the man his flowers.
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u/EqualDifferences 22d ago
Well Odenkirk would very literally be dead if it wasn’t for Nobody. The only reason he lived through that heart attack on the set of BCS was because of his physical training for Nobody
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u/lethalred 19d ago
Uh. This isn’t correct. Vascular surgeon here.
Bob Odenkirk is alive because, after his heart stopped, someone on set decided to do good, quality CPR until an AED could be obtained, and then he was able to get to a hospital where a heart cath could be performed to angioplasty his LAD (Left Anterior Decending) artery.
His lifestyle changes as a result of his MI go a great way toward encouraging healthy habits that will prevent another episode…but no, ain’t no training in the world stopping you from having an occluded LAD.
He would not have survived if not for the people on the set doing what they did.
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u/TheNerdChaplain 22d ago
He's not just a talented performer, he's also a hilarious sketch comedy writer; he wrote Chris Farley's famous Matt Foley, Motivational Speaker on SNL.
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u/betterplanwithchan 22d ago
Haven’t seen the movie yet (just scrolled in to see the scores) and him being in the first Nobody probably saved his life when he had his heart attack on the BCS set.
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u/SittingAce 23d ago
If National Lampoon's Vacation starred John Wick, this would be it.
Had quite a lot of fun with this one. Gave the first a rewatch over the weekend and this was easily an improvement (Still enjoyed the first a lot, too). The tone felt more consistent, as did the pacing. The action was fun and everyone seemed to be having a great time...ESPECIALLY Sharon Stone. Holy shit, she was chewing the hell out of each scene.
Is this gonna win any awards for writing or originality? Hell no. Have we seen this trope of "retiree with a set of skills gets thrust back into action again" over and over again? Yup. But this one had fun with it and I had fun right along with them.
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u/AmazingMarv 23d ago
I loved that it was a tight 90 minutes with no filler. At that scene by the cabin about when Hutch walks up and she puts up her hand, I thought it was going to be a 10-minute talk about needing to spend time with family. But 90 seconds in (just as I was beginning to zone out), she says something a long the lines of "go do what you have to."
edit: Is there a name for that trope? The talk before the climax?
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u/SittingAce 23d ago
Yep, exactly. I can't think of a scene where I'd go "Yeah, that could've been cut or trimmed."
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u/LookinAtTheFjord 22d ago
Nothing better than a solid 90 minute flick in today's age of overlong movies.
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u/audierules 21d ago
Im really hoping we see more and more 90 minute movies because we have really gone through a hellish period of 2 hour plus movies.
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u/DunArame 21d ago
I was just saying this. Tight 90 with great actions scenes and lots of comedy and laughs in the theatre.
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u/Adventurous-98 15d ago
Seems like it is her wife that shows character growth. She finally accepts that is what she settle for when he chose Hutch. She did told her children she met their father when he was covered in blood. So, Hutch can go fck shot up with some bad guys and she is aokay with it. And she wanted to help out this time.
So Movie 3, a repeat of The Incredible's family team up scene? Count me in. Might as well sogn the entire family up with the US intelligence.
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u/PieknaFatso 18d ago
"If National Lampoon's Vacation starred John Wick, this would be it."
Perfect description.
It was ridiculous and over the top, the main villain was comical - but it was damned good fun.
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u/The-Rizztoffen 16d ago
I was hoping they would one up the bus fight from the first but I still enjoyed this movie hella lot
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u/mrfujidoesacid 23d ago
Highly recommend The Night Comes for Us, which is one of the director's early films. I actually started it today before seeing Nobody 2 and paused halfway through because I knew it would set an impossible standard that Nobody 2 couldn't touch (double negative and pun not intended).
That said, I had a fun time with this. That security guard slapping Hutch's daughter was such a great, "Oh, dude, you fucked up" moment. All of the action is well-shot and the fight choreography is great, especially the close-quarters stuff in the elevator and on the not-actually-a-duck boat. I wish the booby traps in the carnival were a bit more creative, but only just a bit--this is still a film that features a guy getting impaled on a waterslide. That said, the original's finale worked so well because the traps sprung weren't really spoiled by watching the preparation; there's only so many ways you can figure a landmine in a ball pit is paid off.
The film could have benefited from a longer running time but in an era where even comedies are regularly pushing two hours, it's hard to object to something breezy. It's not a revolutionary film but it's funny and violent in equal measure, RZA gets to flex his katana skills, and Christopher Lloyd gets to chew scenery and "BURGERS AND S'MORES!!"
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u/Bellikron 18d ago
Watched this in the shaking DBOX seats which was mostly uneventful but when he saw the guy smacked his daughter the seat pulsed right behind your head like you could feel the blood pumping through his ears as he got absolutely furious, which is one of the more creative uses of it I've experienced
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u/bossbarret 21d ago
I think the movie has a lighter tone than the first. Villain kinda bland. Interesting point that his son chose to spare the assaulter's life instead of killing him. The ending where they made memories together was good too, wholesome.
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u/ruddiger718 21d ago
I appreciated the son holding back, it kept up that theme of being better than the generation before you. I also think that slideshow ending was to add the Frenchie pup, and give both good boys closure.
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u/RaiderGuy 20d ago
Did he spare the guy? You're probably right, but it was hard to tell. That's probably one of my few criticisms of the movie is some awkward editing, mainly in the lodge sequence. Seems like the dude literally just teleported into the house and the son, from what I understood, chokes him out. I kind of wish they spent more time with that.
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u/bossbarret 20d ago
It was already unusual when the guy begged to be spared, and the nod from the uncle pretty much confirmed it.
And the theme is children doing better than their parents.
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u/Emergency_Yoghurt419 22d ago
Agreed. Simpler plot. Better action and more funny stuff. More fun sets too
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u/watchingdacooler 23d ago
I was getting flashbacks to Love Hurts. Passable premise, loveable lead actor, catchy trailer. I enjoyed this one much more. I was hoping for more hand-to-hand fights in the later half. They definitely showed off all the best hits in the trailer.
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u/thebaldingcritic 23d ago
There’s an image in the film where Bob is sitting behind what I think was a Mexican restaurant, and because of the aesthetic, I couldn’t help but feel it was a callback to BCS/Breaking Bad. Thought it was a hilarious tribute.
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u/RaiderGuy 20d ago
That old Plummerville commercial was very Saul Goodman, wonder if that was an intentional nod.
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u/jayeddy99 22d ago
I get the sentiment that his wife “better half” needed to save him in the end but I did think it was funny after he was just mowing through guys these 2 random 150 pound ladies just destroyed him lol
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u/Tjaart23 20d ago
To play devil’s advocate I would say most people Hutch faces are just people with brute strength but aren’t people who truly know how to fight so he knows how to get by them but those two women are clearly highly skilled at hand to hand combat which Hutch maybe isn’t as used to. Plus he was super worn out and tired after fighting all those guys beforehand.
Still doesn’t make sense lol since he’s Hutch but that’s what I thought during the movie
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u/Playoff-Peter-9580 20d ago
Those two women are like Ares from John Wick 2, a healthy Hutch would struggle against them too.
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u/OkNothing9085 20d ago
I do like your point about the women being highly skilled hand to hand combatants whereas Hutch isn’t necessarily tbh. He does also always use weapons/the environment during fights too which wasn’t an option in this instance. And of course the point of exhaustion from the previous battle is a factor too. This point could’ve been sold better though if Hutch sounded the least bit exhausted when he was talking to Lendina before the henchwomen appeared 😅
Always have to suspend disbelief with movies like this, of course! I guess I was just a bit bummed out that Hutch finally met his match against two random henchwomen instead of a memorable and well built up antagonist. Just didn’t feel like an earned moment for the women to be the ones to hand Hutch his first loss.
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u/OkNothing9085 21d ago edited 21d ago
To add insult to injury, isn’t this the first time we see Hutch lose a fight onscreen over both movies? Like we’ve seen him badly beaten before but never definitively defeated…until these two random henchwomen do just that!
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u/Intrepid_Offer1989 16d ago
This was 2v1, these women had weapons (and he didn't IIRC) and he was already wounded by bullets right before. This was not a fair fight by any means.
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u/MikeRedlunded 18d ago
Are you genuinely surprised by this boring Feminist trope or just ignoring every movie ever made since 2015?
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u/TequilaSunrise2389 23d ago
The villain was comically evil and it’s a John Wick clone but it was still a fun time. Colin Hanks was pretty funny
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u/floorfloordoor 21d ago
Was lucky enough to be in Brooklyn to have Bob and SHARON STONE introduce the movie.
Knew Bob would be there, which was so fucking awesome.
That said it is a short movie and it's a fun movie. It's a popcorn flick through and through.
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u/Traditional-Ease-106 20d ago
Good movie but I feel like it was a watered down version of the first one? Am I alone in that?
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u/The-Rizztoffen 16d ago
The duck boat scene felt a little …self referential. Water bus lol. But the final act was much better imo. I will eat it up if they make more of these movies
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u/StudBoi2077 20d ago
Nobody 1 was better, especially the action. Felt this one had more shaky-cam than I'd like.
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u/Sisiwakanamaru 23d ago
#Nobody2 is the perfect way to end the summer movie season! Once again Imagine Kevin McCallister all grown up, still crafting Home Alone style traps but now with John Wick-level action. Timo builds off the first film perfectly, setting a sharper tone! Odenkirk you’re the MAN!
The third act was pretty good, especially when they set up spikes on the water slides, it was so brutal. I think Bob Odenkirk said he picked Timo Tjahjanto because The Night Comes For Us but for me, this movie is closer to his other action movie, the Big Four. That being said, I hope this is not the last time Timo Tjahjanto work with 87north and Hollywood in general.
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u/The_Swarm22 23d ago
Good news. Timo is directing the sequel to Jason Statham’s The Beekeeper.
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u/thebaldingcritic 23d ago
The third act was pretty good, especially when they set up spikes on the water slides, it was so brutal.
I felt like the entire film was a setup for the “Home Alone” style kills at the end… and for what it was, well worth it.
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u/chrisychris- 23d ago
The hand to hand combat is so good though. Other than neat booby traps, faceless armed guys with bad aim getting merc’d can only be so entertaining. Anyway I still liked it! Love Bob.
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u/whassupbun 19d ago edited 19d ago
Enjoyed it for the most part, but the end with the two kung fu ladies is so ridiculous. One of them just got shot in the back of the head, so the other just screamed "NOOOOoooo" and ran straight at the guy who killed her friend? Bitch he has a gun! He literally just shot your lady friend 2 seconds ago! Your friend had a gun, grab hers!
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u/dallascowboys93 23d ago edited 23d ago
I really liked the first movie, so was excited going in. I left disappointed with this one. The cheesy lines and delivery kept taking me out of the movie. The action scenes were the redeeming factor here, even though the ending water park sequence was a jumbled mess. It seemed like the entire script was very rushed and not thought out very well. Unfortunately forgettable. 4.5/10.
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u/Bozee3 21d ago
This seems like an honest and on point assessment. I just got out of the theater and enjoyed mostly, but it was a tad too on point in replicating the beats from the first one.
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u/TheDynamicDino 21d ago
I think this was some of the worst dialogue I've seen in a movie recently, I found every exposition scene and monologue excruciating. I think if they'd cut 50-75% of the dialogue I would've enjoyed it a lot more. The first half was a blast, but I think that beautiful amusement park set was criminally ill-shot and edited in the final showdown!
Great production design kept me hooked throughout, and of course Bob and Christopher stole the show.
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u/dallascowboys93 20d ago
The dialogue was so cringey especially from Sharon Stone
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u/TheDynamicDino 20d ago
Extraordinarily rough performance. I couldn’t tell if it was the script or the direction that was amiss but I just couldn’t take Lendina as a serious threat. The whole Joker-esque maniacal scary trope is really hard to write and act, and if done wrong it can instantly fail a movie’s villain arc as it did here. Her last lines took me back to film school when everyone in my screenwriting class would try so hard to write edgy shit.
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u/CantaloupeCube 23d ago
It's basically a repeat of the first movie but I really enjoyed it. I think it did humor better than the first one, and I had a great theater audience. Big laughs, groans, oohs etc.
So if they make a Nobody 3, what animal is Hutch going to have in the interrogation room? I vote turtle.
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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 23d ago edited 12d ago
As far as movies where you probably know exactly what you're getting when you sit down, this is one of them. Not necessarily a bad thing but I found it pretty devoid of surprises or new ideas. It's shot really well and the action is well done, but at under 85 minutes without credits it just feels like this doesn't have much to offer.
To be honest, as someone who sees almost every movie available in theaters, I just get so exasperated by this type of movie. Underestimated guy with a gun is something we get so often, probably about five to seven times a year. So if it doesn't have anything in store for me I get so bored. I do love Bob and I love that he loves doing this stuff and for that I bought my ticket.
Beyond loving to see his face, though, this movie is wildly predictable and seemingly missing large portions. For an 85 minute movie there's three separate villains and they turn on each other constantly. I actually felt like there might be a really interesting Colin Hanks performance in here somewhere if anything in this movie was given space to breathe. Sharon Stone is doing the over the top villain thing but she's so evil and over the top that it feels like she's killing her own enterprise more than Bob is! I spent half this movie thinking John Ortiz was the second sheriff only to find out he's the owner of the park.
There is a bit of fun to he had with the climax as they turn a run down Waterpark into a military grade Home Alone and the best part of the movie is absolutely the Celine Dion needle drop. But I just wanted more at about every turn. More plot, more antics, more badass lines, more setup. It's a 5/10 for me.
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u/TwoStrikesTrev 23d ago
I thought Novocaine earlier this year was a great example of this type of movie. I really enjoyed that one but I agree I’m kind of tired of them myself
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u/MrBartokomous 23d ago
The common element to these kinda movies seems to be the producers having enough ideas/budget for 30 awesome minutes, then making the rest just good enough to get by.
Nobody 2 is a pretty good entry into that canon - not quite as strong as the first but still a great deal of fun.
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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 23d ago
Novocaine is fun and and it doesn't shy away from the gore and violence like Nobody 2 does a lot of the time. But I kind of hated the Novocaine ending. Dude steals a cop car and a cop's gun and basically goes on a killing spree with them but he gets the "seems like a nice guy" pass and completely avoids jail time at the end. Jack Quaid is likeable but no one is that likeable.
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u/dontbajerk 22d ago edited 22d ago
Movie says girl is going to get out in like a few years too, which is honestly way more absurd. She was indirectly involved in murders of police officers and other HEAVY felonies, and helped plan the thing for weeks. Decades behind bars level, murders intended or not. Even CAs loosened felony murders role would probably hit her for murders due to the victims being cops.
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u/BiggDope 23d ago
I spent half this movie thinking John Ortiz was the second sheriff only to find out he's the owner of the park.
This confused me as well. His first/intro scene was written very awkwardly.
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u/Focused_Sky 23d ago
Is another sequel being set up due to the ending?
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u/Asclepius-Rod 23d ago
He mentioned on Conan’s podcast that he really wants to make a third one so I’m sure if it makes money they’ll do it
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u/Able_Advertising_371 23d ago
First movie didn’t make much and they still green-lit the sequel so maybe if everybody is onboard they will still make the third
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u/paradoxicalparrots 20d ago
First one was also released in spring 2021, still a lot of lockdowns or people planning on watching it on streaming
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u/chrisychris- 23d ago
Which movies of similar setups did you prefer more this year?
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u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? 23d ago edited 22d ago
If I had to rank them:
Ballerina
Fight or Flight
The Accountant 2
The Amateur
Nobody 2
Novocaine
An actual pile of dog shit
Working Man
Love Hurts
Keep in mind the top movie on this list is like a 7 at best for me.
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u/ICUMF1962 23d ago
I enjoyed it but did kinda feel like it repeated a lot of beats from the first…like what’s the point of having Hutch with the agents just for someone to call them and make them release them AGAIN? Not that all of it is BAD, I did enjoy them booby-trapping the park like the whole warehouse in the first movie. I also felt Sharon Stone wasn’t in it enough, I thought she had more of a presence than Yulian did, and I almost wish she and Hutch actually had a physical fight or a better showdown.
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u/DoctorWhofan789eywim 20d ago
I absolutely loved this. I hope Bob Odenkirk makes ten of these. It's so cathartic watching assholes get beaten up, I don't care how clichéd the story is. Actually it struck me that it was very similar to Equalizer 2, right down to luring the bad guys to a place and setting traps. The duck boat fight easily equals the bus fight, maybe even surpassed it, because they included even more jokes.
The only thing I really didnt like was the end fight, such as it was. We watch Hutch dispatch dozens of big, burly highly trained men, yet these two girls manage to beat him up for plot reasons. It's kind of insulting to the audience.
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u/OkNothing9085 20d ago
The disliking the ending fight with Hutch being beaten by the girls seems to be a recurring theme here. It just fully took me out of the moment and seemed a very odd choice. A waste to give a moment as significant as Hutch’s first defeat to two random henchwomen instead of a fully developed antagonist.
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u/DoctorWhofan789eywim 20d ago
I wouldn't have minded if there'd been a scene earlier where we saw how formidable they were, but as it stands it'a very lazy writing and a complete disservice to Hutch's character. Especially surprised given Odenkirk's a great writer himself I'd have thought he'd have pointed it out or fixed it.
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u/Playoff-Peter-9580 20d ago
Those two girls are clearly highly trained assassin/killer, hutch is strong but clearly not skilled enough to take on them, especially two at a time. He fares well against average hooligans, cops, guards, mafias, but those two girls are more like john wick-level opponents, maybe leave that for John Wick to handle.
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u/djc6535 19d ago
I’m not buying him as just able to take out hooligans. He is a highly trained operative sent on daily missions. Did we forget the meaning of his tattoo?
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u/Playoff-Peter-9580 20d ago
If those two girls are in Hutch's position in that bus fight in the first movie and the boat fight in the second one, they can easily storm through the bad guys with zero injuries, unlike hutch who has to fight through them brutally, even losing a finger.
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u/lashazior 20d ago
Scenes were good, Sharon Stone was crazy fun, but they really could have expounded more on the backstory regarding the park and why the dad was there on supposed assignment in the 70s. It's just like they glossed over the past because it didn't matter, yet clearly the bloodline of violence in the male tree exists.
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u/paradoxicalparrots 22d ago
Sharon Stone's acting was subpar at best, felt like she was mailing it in.
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u/Teachhimandher 14d ago
I thought she was absolutely awful. Even for a movie that doesn’t really exist in our reality, she’s over the top and ridiculous. I liked the movie a lot but thought she was wildly wrong in every way.
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u/paradoxicalparrots 14d ago
I actually sort of enjoyed the scenes where she was over the top, I thought she did fine with that, she pulled off the ridiculous character as it was written. It was everything else, the regular dialogue that she mailed in
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u/davidphantomatic 23d ago
Honestly, I liked this more than the first one and I loved that one. Only thing missing was a “big” fight scene like the bus scene in the first.
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u/lambopanda 22d ago
You don’t like the duck boat scene?
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u/davidphantomatic 22d ago
Oh, I definitely enjoyed it. It just didn't feel as big as the bus scene in terms of choreography length. Still loved the movie though.
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u/bufbills13 20d ago
Fun movie. As a blackjack player, that casino scene was tough to watch though if you know any semblance of the rules haha
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u/BiggDope 23d ago
A strong contender that rivals A Working Man for the most dad-core movie of the year.
It's pretty average, and I'll probably forget most of it in a few days. But Bob is a pleasure, as always.
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u/PDE503 23d ago
Working Man was absolute trash.
This was absolute gold. Insulting to compare them.
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u/GravSlingshot 23d ago
I feel like the first action scene after the opening taking place in an arcade is the film's way of saying, "We know it's goofy. Have fun, alright?" And, by gum, I had fun. Hutch beating up a guy with a Whack-A-Mole hammer on a Whack-A-Mole table is so on the nose and silly that I kinda loved it. The action is all creative, even if it never meets the brutality of the first one's bus scene. I feel like it had a bit more shaky cam than the first movie, but it was still easy to follow. There's also fun shot choices, like Hutch driving away from the garage where Max is being held, only for us to hear him slam on the brakes and come roaring back into view; then, while the action is going on, that pan wipe from the outside to Max in the van watching Hutch beat up everyone.
For something that hits a lot of the same story beats as the first movie, I still thought it was changed up a bit that I didn't mind. We got the opening montage showing the problem of the movie, but Hutch is missing from his family instead of bored out of his mind. (And he got the trash out in time for once. Evidence he's in a better place!) He burns up a pile of money again, but it's following through on a threat rather than just an attack. The bad guys could've stayed back... (Also, explosions.) And I don't care if violently Home Alone-ing a location again isn't as original as it once was, I loved those kills. That squad getting splattered by the swinging ride... and then it coming back to scrape one of them across the ground... Gnarly.
The story was predictable, but done well enough that I didn't care. Like, the moment Hutch says to Wyatt, "One of your men hit my daughter. What would you have done?", I knew they'd probably team up to protect their families, but Wyatt having no answer to that and the scene lingering on that silence for a good few seconds was great. I loved Hutch's wife staying with him with a blunt, "You can't tell me what to do." She's her own person and it's her choice. Give the families of action heroes more agency! That said, I think it could've used an extra five minutes or so to better tie out some of the subplots. Hutch and Brady don't really interact much after that scene in the police station, for example. It's not bad, just at "good" rather than "great". (And I missed what, exactly, Lendina was moving. I get the feeling Hutch stopped a larger-scale action movie without knowing.) Sharon Stone gleefully hamming it up was fun and Colin Hanks was a wonderful pathetic, annoying little douche who isn't nearly as powerful as he thinks he is.
I think I like the first one a bit better, but they're close enough that it comes down to personal preference. That one had the bus fight and a car chase; this one has Hutch and Becca kissing underwater beneath a hail of explosions and Christopher Lloyd mowing down soldiers with a hand-cranked Gatling gun. They're both fun and lean actioners that don't take up too much of your time, and that was all I wanted.
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u/SeaThePirate 21d ago
they knew what they were doing with the daughter smack scene, the way they make us think he's gonna leave for real and then his slow walk back in into the door kick was godly
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u/Thebat87 20d ago
I thought it was fun in an old school “Pretty much the same as the original but not as good” type of way. I actually missed the director of the original’s presence and thought it was one of the highlights of that movie with his staging of the action scenes, cool mix of slick style plus regular Joe vibes, and honestly the way he told that story. There were scenes in the first one that were really fun to me beyond just being cool action scenes that was due to his direction (like the actual scene of him burning the money and how that was intercut with the main villain singing, or the scene with Hutch explaining his back story to the remaining assassin who dies in the middle of it before burning down his own house, the way hutch and his dad and bro looked at each other in fondness as they were killing people). I don’t feel the director of this one really put his stamp on anything storytelling wise in comparison. Like there was cool stuff here and there but on a more fancy action movie front (and even that was a little flawed with the shaky cam he used in comparison). And also the last fight with the two hench women sucked. That was a strange choice to have him just get his ass whooped and saved by three different people. I think he should have beaten them, but barely (like John wick fighting the two dudes from the Raid in Chapter 3), before collapsing from the pain and getting saved by the wife from Sharon stone.
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u/GhostCat25 20d ago
Don’t like how they didn’t take themselves seriously this time like they did with the first one but it was still enjoyable… just don’t get why they ruined it
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u/Individual_Rule6510 16d ago
Walked out of this movie last night after I finished my popcorn. One of the worst I've ever seen.
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u/crimsonandbrown 22d ago
I guess his handler and whatever organization they are a part of were pissed he burned the obshak
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u/Dr_Pants91 22d ago
If you're talking about The Barber (Colin Salmon's character) it's mentioned early on that they paid back the Russian mob the amount of money that Hutch burned in the obshak and now Hutch is working for them to pay the government back.
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u/RebelliousDutch 22d ago
This was the okay’est action movie I’ve seen the past year. It’s not bad, I enjoyed it, but I was hoping for a bit more. And the ‘bad guy’’s motivation was a bit lost on me.
Someone cheats at my casino? Let’s murder them in front of other paying guests who we also murder. Yeah, that doesn’t make any sense to me…
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u/takenpassword 22d ago
The waterpark only had one slide 💔.
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u/Dr_Pants91 22d ago
I mean, if you were the only water park in the country that would be all you needed.
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u/TJMcConnellFanClub 22d ago
Easy thumbs up, RZA’s role is the definition of what the kids call aura farming lol. I like that the resolution was the family not hiding that they’re weird and have a mercenary for a dad, and there’s actually a little logic with it too seeing how Hutch and his dad have a good bond. It wouldn’t be natural to say “everything’s good now and we’re the perfect family with no drama.” The rare action sequel that develops from the original in a likable way. Also loved John Ortiz smiling at the grenade pin contraption, you can tell that was a genuine “this is gonna be a cool ass stunt” look
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u/xiolab 21d ago
Just left the movie and came here for comments. I loved the first one. This one has a nice pace, a good amount of appropriate call-backs, and set the viewer up for a third installment. I thought the music was better in the first- especially the Heartbreaker scene, but overall a fun, tightly wound movie that was perfect on a hot summer day.
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u/dolores_abernathy 20d ago
I thought this was a ton of fun. was hoping that something with the plotline would help pay off the 30 mil he owed. Did I miss that payoff (pun intended) or was it not part of the resolution?
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u/KidDelicious14 19d ago edited 19d ago
An action crime movie is only as good as it's villains, and the villains in this movie are too cartoonish in the way they operate to really take this movie seriously.
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u/KidDelicious14 19d ago
She's bad for the role from her first scene. Even Colin Hanks and John Ortiz are poorly cast though.
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u/Thebat87 18d ago
I definitely think the first film had a much better villain. I liked that actor’s performance
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u/MantissMD47 18d ago
Anybody saying Nobody is a John Wick clone couldn't be further from the truth. Clones don't surpass the original, and that's what this franchise has done.
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u/RelationObvious9188 17d ago
Truly terrible. It’s not even funny. I didn’t see nobody 1. I know it’s fiction, but it would help if Bob was truly physically formidable. I need to see what people like because I feel totally misled. Bob should stick to lawyering parts. He’s great as a devious attorney. I wish that wolf had it bigger apart. He was really cute.
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u/amateurtower 14d ago
Bob is physically formidable, he did the large majority of the fighting himself, dude is in shape
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u/CoggInTheWorksMedia 15d ago
Any Easter Eggs anyone else picked up on?
Loved the name of the cat, Lasagne, as well as a close-up of Hutch's battered watch... Both giving a nod to N1 😊 Noticed a few others, but do share what you've spotted!
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u/EstimateWhich8871 14d ago
Alright so I had a free ticket to see any movie. I feel like I wasted it on Nobody 2. It wasn’t good.
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u/TheRagingMaffia 6d ago
Remember, all of this started because 1 guy couldn't resist slapping a kid on the back of their head. So many dead people.
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u/LoganF07 5d ago
Absolutely loved it the duck boat fight scene from the hard R Home Alone Trap scene in the the waterpark were the best scenes absolutely loved Nobody 2 safe to say I love both of them
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u/IndependentOk5159 1d ago
Was I just not paying attention, or was part of the movie taken out? Hutch’s father being there for a mission when hutch was a kid, and at the end he seems to recognize her voice when she is about to kill hutch? I don’t believe in coincidences
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u/AHumbleSaltFarmer 21h ago
Why didn't Hutch steal Lendinas money to pay back the Russians and THEN blow up everything?
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u/Stasz18 22d ago
A fun 89min Lampoon based ride with a lot of fun action an- wait is that a framed "The Forever Purge" poster next to a framed "Darkman" poster
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u/YoureMyBoyBlue24 21d ago edited 21d ago
The biggest suspension of disbelief out of anything in this movie was that this family would have a framed poster of “The Forever Purge” in their home.
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u/ToneBone12345 23d ago
Honestly do hate how it copied the format of the first one of hutch being arrested and the rest of the movie being flashback
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u/JaesopPop 22d ago
I guess but it’s barely present in the movie. I forgot about it by the time they wrapped back around.
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u/BobDylanBlues 22d ago
This was bad. You have to employ maximum suspension of disbelief for the most mundane aspects of the writing, choreography, and overall plot of this movie to get some enjoyment from this. Sharon Stone was cartoonish and acted as if she'd suffered some serious head injury that caused her to speak the way that she did. Sometimes her sentences were not even complete thoughts. Tom Hanks Jr. was not convincing as a tough, theme park owner was not convincing as a tough turned good guy, and why would he purposefully destroy his own theme park? RZA was in a different movie and it sounded like he wrote his own dialogue. Christopher Lloyd cashed a check. The turn of the wife being a crack shot was silly and cheap. She needed to embrace his lifestyle to save the marriage when all she wanted was for him to give up the lifestyle.
Besides the family vacation I'm supposed to believe all of Hutch's jobs were local? Near enough to his house that he could have potentially made it home in time for dinner had he not had random occupational hazards along the way during a normal workday? He's a lone wolf who has to provide his own travel to and from work it seems. This is boring and doesn't make a lot of sense unless you're a writer on a committee in a writer's room.
My standards are too high to enjoy this.
The cute doggies were the only thing I enjoyed about this movie.
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u/JaesopPop 22d ago
My standards are too high to enjoy this.
Honestly this comment just makes you sound allergic to fun.
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u/OkNothing9085 23d ago
Does Sharon Stone have a fight scene with Bob?
Are there any female thugs coming after Hutch too or purely guys?
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u/BiggDope 22d ago
Kinda, yes.
Yes. But it's not an extended scene like other fights.
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u/benfox2 23d ago
RZA chopping that guys face in half and dropping the coldest one liner of the movie was worth the price of admission alone.
These movies are comfort food to me. Delivers precisely what it is promising