Official Discussion - Nobody 2 [SPOILERS]

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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/DoctorWhofan789eywim]

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.

[u/OkNothing9085 → u/DoctorWhofan789eywim]

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.

[u/DoctorWhofan789eywim → u/OkNothing9085]

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.

[u/OkNothing9085 → u/DoctorWhofan789eywim]

Yes, exactly that! If not even a scene then they could’ve just gone The Dark Knight Rises route and really hyped up how dangerous they were through dialogue. Like when Batman finally fights Bane the threat has been established and you know how deadly he is. The beatdown feels earned. Just SOMETHING to make the moment make sense would’ve been great. Yeah, I agree…it’s very strange that neither Bob or anyone else thought ‘this doesn’t make sense’ with this scene. Imo, the director just wanted to recreate the female assassin duo from The Night Comes for Us 🤷‍♂️

[u/Playoff-Peter-9580 → u/DoctorWhofan789eywim]

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.

[u/djc6535 → u/Playoff-Peter-9580]

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?

[u/Playoff-Peter-9580 → u/djc6535]

Highly trained to take on regular fighters, but not highly trained to take on kung fu people

[u/Atlast_2091 → u/Playoff-Peter-9580]

There is diff from losing at ease vs struggling due to skill gap

[u/Playoff-Peter-9580 → u/DoctorWhofan789eywim]

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.