Bob Odenkirk is... NOBODY

[timebug]

Loved it! I find Odenkirk one of those actors who just makes his part(s) instantly believable. Yes it was extremely 'John Wick' but who cares? It passed the time well enough and I enjoyed it, what more do you want from a film?

[samadriel]

I really enjoyed it too; I haven't seen the John Wick movies, so if it's too much like those, my opinion was unaffected. Marvelous scenes of violence, including great combat with RZA and Christopher Lloyd. Looking forward to a possible sequel.

[mothman]

Watched this tonight, I thought it was good fun. It's no John Wick and it's no Taken, but then it wasn't trying to be. Sure you can say that it's yet another film with the protagonist rediscovering his self-respect through guns and violence, but I don't think that was what was going on at all. He even explains it quite nicely himself - he was trying to be something he wasn't, and overdid it.

One thing is puzzling me:

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did the burglars steal his wedding ring, or not? I thought there wasn't time for them to have done so, but then shortly after it looked like he didn't have it on anymore. And then I forgot to look out for it again later.

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[Ant Farm Keyboard]

One thing is puzzling me:

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No, they asked for it, but they didn't have enough time as his son stepped in. Hutch is seen wearing his wedding ring later, and he sure doesn't ask the burglars for his ring, while he asks for the watch and the kitten bracelet.

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[mothman]

Thanks. Yeah, that's what I thought. As I say I thought I saw in one scene where he wasn't, but then forgot to look out for any more.

[Satchmo Distel]

Mitch Miller?

[Dr Rock]

I enjoyed this. Then I had a dream where I had to fight loads of people and got a right fucked up face.

[thundarrshirt]

Listen: as a pacifist socialist, I have to say that a film where a man emasculated by the fact he no longer does extrajudicial killings for the state regaining his virility through lots of murder is ideologically troubling, but I also I really enjoyed seeing him do lots of murder. John Wick without tedious worldbuilding and with jokes is better, innit?

[Bob-Kate]

It's a fun film and Bob is great.

Very much in the 90s Arnie/Bruce action fodder mode with some imaginative action sequences. Oh and Christopher Lloyd!

[Blue Jam]

Very much in the 90s Arnie/Bruce action fodder mode

Ahhhh, so it is Thundergun then? Excellent.

Changed my mind, this sounds fun and now I really want to watch The Bob thundergun the shit out of some Russians, will wait until I can stream it though.

[Blue Jam]

Also it has been reassuring to have not seen this film being advertised on the sides of buses, I had been concerned it would be that kind of film. In our house we have a bit of a rule about not seeing films on bus ads, broken it a few times and always regretted it (hello, Seven Psychopaths and Django Unchained).

Seen Bryan Cranston's face all over Edinburgh's buses today. Guess it's a good thing I watched and enjoyed Your Honor first but perhaps TV doesn't count.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

We watched this last night. Entertaining stuff, but strangely lightweight for how gruesome it could be. Bob gets knocked about a bit, but there's not much sense of peril in the action scenes.

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Even when he and RZA get hit during the final shootout, it's brushed off like it was nothing

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. There was a moment in that scene when I was sure that

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Christopher Lloyd (who seems to have partially morphed into Lance Henriksen over the years) was about to cark it

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but, nope, everything was fine. If the point is that Bob is the real monster, like in A History of Violence, it didn't particularly come across.

The mob boss and his henchman get big introductions and then don't do a whole lot for the rest of the running time. RZA's character felt rather shoehorned in as well.

Still, all that aside, it was a decent bit of fun and Odenkirk was surprisingly convincing in the action scenes (I can't imagine David Cross working half as well, that's for sure).

[Twit 2]

Watched this the other night in the cinema, thought it might lift my mood. It depressed me further. Nasty, joyless, empty piece of shit film.

[ConscriptedJelly]

It was OK, regurgitated john wick premise but I cared a little bit more about the protag than mr. wick, which isnt saying much. felt like a boring studio version of a craig zahler film.

[Blue Jam]

Thunderbob Express Nobody 2 not yet greenlit but now being written:

https://www.joblo.com/movie-news/nobody-2-sequel-connie-nielsen

[up_the_hampipe]

The mob boss and his henchman get big introductions and then don't do a whole lot for the rest of the running time.

I thought that was weird too. They made him look fucking terrifying, then nothing happens.

[mothman]

Having the boss do karaoke - but dub Andy Williams over the top - struck me as an odd stylistic choice.

[cheesebot]

Enjoyed it. It was also my first exposure to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_anymore - I could care less.

[Custard]

I thought this was great fun. The bus scene alone is hilariously OTT and unmissable

I hope they make ten of them, and it gets sillier and sillier each time

[Blue Jam]

This is now available to buy and I have finally watched it in my own little fake VR cinema. I suppose I could post a detailed review but I really don't think there is anything more to say than A: This film is really fucking stupid, and B: It's absolutely fucking ace. I enjoyed it immensely.

Also Are Bob is totally aiming for a part in Bond 26 isn't he? If he appears as Felix Leiter or a villain I will scream. C'mon Barbara Broccoli, make it happen.

[mothman]

Actually if you wanted a classic Leiter[nb]Like in the novels, with an actual personality[nb]In as much as the book Leiter had a personality, beyond "stereotypical American."[/nb], something like, I dunno Bernie Casey in The Other Bond Film, or Jeffery Wright in the Craig films - odd that the two examples that must stand out are the two black Leiterses...[/nb] then they could do a lot worse than Bob.

[Dr Rock]

I think a younger Odenkirk could've played Reed Richards.

[Blue Jam]

On the subject of Breaking Bad alumni, I'd enjoy seeing Dean Norris as Felix Leiter too. Having a Schraderbräu while Bond has a Heineken.

[Blue Jam]

I know Bob is doing his best Robert Evans impersonation here but I did wonder if this article was a bit of a Bond audition:

https://therake.com/stories/nobody-does-it-better/

I thought this was great fun. The bus scene alone is hilariously OTT and unmissable

I hope they make ten of them, and it gets sillier and sillier each time

I've just remembered the bit where the bus bell kept ringing as Hutch was punching the bad Russian dude, and which other Bob it reminded me of:



Just the level of comedic violence I had been hoping for. If Bob (Odenkirk) is heart-healthy enough for it I'd like to see an even dafter sequel too.

[Custard]

Heh, might have to rewatch it. It's probably my favourite film this year

I think the funniest bit was when they chuck him out the bus window, and he just gets up and gets back on. I was in hysterics by that point

[Blue Jam]

I also liked the running gag of Hutch trying to tell his life story to people and then stopping when he realised

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they'd died before he could get to the end

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. Quite meta, that: "Nah, the backstory of a mild-mannered nobody who is actually a retired assassin is so clichéd it could literally

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bore you to death

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, fuck the exposition, let's skip to a bit more violence instead, that's what everyone's really here for".

Heh, I already want to watch it again.

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

Heh, I already want to watch it again.

I bet you do you dirty old bollocks, I fucking bet you do.

[Blue Jam]

Ah hello Lisa, have you given Free Guy a second viewing yet? I would join in with your thread but unfortunately I will be boycotting the film until Him Who Plays Deadpool shows his pretty face in Wrexham.

[Brundle-Fly]

Finally watched this as our Christmas Day movie. It delivered the goods with all the trimmings. I didn't compare it to the John Wick films as I haven't seen them. It actually reminded me of Danny 'Fackin' Dyer's Vendetta (2013). The message was pretty nihilistic but I guess they were satirising these type of movies or have I missed the point?

[Blue Jam]

Heads up: This is on UK Netflix now.

Also Thunderbob Express the sequel is officially in the works, as Hutch himself comfirmed last night at the Edinburgh date of his book tour.