Four years ago a nobody came (i.e. family man of the type accountant), unashamed with the Russian mafia and thus conquered the hearts of numerous action fans: “Better Call Saul” character head Bob Odenkirk not only demonstrated with “Nobody” that there is a surprisingly convincing action hero, but also that he has the stuff, even the “John Wick “saga to compete. Internal competition to be precise, after all, “Nobody” also comes from the Stuntschmiede 87north Productions, which is also responsible for the “John Wick” cosmos!
In addition, “John Wick” author Derek Kolstad was responsible for the script, while “John Wick” Co-Co-director David Leitch participated as a producer. In the highly expected “Nobody” sequel are (almost) all again, there was only a change on the director's chair: “Hardcore” director Ilya Naishuller makes room for Timo Tjahjanto, the man behind the ultra-brutal Netflix loi “The Night Comes for Us”. In “Nobody 2”, Tjahjanto initially (bad!) Supports himself noticeably. But as soon as he turns free, the sequel is really fun!
Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) still looks like a disillusioned accountant – and he is still damn fatal!
The debt killer Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) indulged in his everyday work is worn up: he has hardly any time for his family – and the constant cold of bad boys slowly hangs out for his neck. So he plans a family vacation in the tranquil, somewhat tapped tourist town of Plummerville, of which he has pleasant memories: This is where his brother (RZA), his father (Christopher Lloyd) and he once had their only vacation together!
While Hutch's children (Gage Munroe and Paisley Cadorath) can only be dragged along, his wife Becca (Connie Nielsen) is even reasonably optimistic. Nevertheless, she warns that her husband should leave his argumentative side at home. As soon as they arrive in the tourist trap with dubious water park, an old -fashioned arcade and noisy fairground stalls, the family of the corrupt water park owner (John Ortiz), a dodgy sheriff (Colin Hanks) and his tangling gang are harassing the children from Hutch. The loving father does not let this sit on him! However, he has no idea that he stings in a wasp nest and attracts the anger of the gangster boss Lendina (Sharon Stone) …
With known hits on vacation
“Nobody 2” begins like a 08/15 action sequel, namely as a new infusion of the predecessor under slightly changed conditions: again, Hutch is caught in everyday life in his monotonous everyday life; Again, his sense of justice urges him to mingle fieslings; Again he gets hard to astonish his opponents; Again he calls on the scene of an even more nefarious person. At the same time, the shift in action into a shabby tourist hell changes the whole mood: the ambience of the predecessor was most likely to be a glass of Scotch, this time is a cocktail-mit-umbrella-cheap vacation atmosphere in the center-moody-ironic sound sound included!
Unfortunately, Tjahjanto does not get as many gags out of the gap between Hutch's romanticized memories of Plummerville and the rancid reality that would have been possible. However, he uses the scene for a lively refreshing repetition of one of the strongest scenes from part one: Again Hutch has to finish a bunch of hulpers in a bus that is also populated by idle normalos-only this time it is a “duck boat” that hates his son as military water bus (before he was disappointing with Hutch's disappointment with Place the squeaky duck motif).
Sharon Stone plunges into her role as a villain!
The script also follows a well-known sequel mantra. This time it gets even more personal, after all, Hutch's revenge is awakened because his children are harassed in a gambling hell. Using Hutch's everything that has been released, self-justice can also be shown, which is why “Nobody 2” has become a good, but the forerunner has not become fully equal to the same action: Here an adversary is moored in the pinball machines, there someone grabs the hammer attached to one play equipment, but instead gets its limited range to feel. However, the “headshot” director Timo Tjahjanto seems to have starting difficulties to adapt his dirty-bloody brute style to the mood of a often winking action fun with holiday setting.
Above all, the Arcade Kloppe is strongly brushed on a repeated “preparation, implementation, punch” dramaturgy, which, however, is subtly bumped: a prop or an obstacle is shown prominently, there is a dynamic wrangling, and everything suggests that a cynical point or a grotesque leads to violence-and then it starts again. But the many mini crescendi are often too tame in “Nobody 2” at the beginning to convince fully after all the lead. The proverbial salt in the soup is missing.
The fieslings rock the film juicy upwards
First, Colin Hanks primarily consoles Colin Hanks as a pleasant-for-hermic lubrication lobe from Sheriff over these drops of bitterness. But then Sharon Stone enters the stage and pushes “Nobody 2” to new, perches: with opposed hair, tinted glasses, razor fingers, extra-long fingernails and a manic grin, the “Basic Instinct” legend gives a terrific, power-hungry and bloodstream villain.
And this proves to be a huge shot of energy, from which “Nobody 2” benefits: Lendina lives a literally sociopathic attitude towards violence thanks to the “Nobody 2”: Lendina lives in an already cold-flowered casino scene-with which even her own private army can easily keep up. As soon as this troop is sent to Plummerville, Tjahjanto is finally fully in his element and seasons the rest of the film with string humor, painful struggles and a nasty arms on bizarre.
When the bad boys are targeting his family, Hutch finally sees red!
From then on, fair stalls become the scene of an FSK-16 response to “Kevin-Alone at Home”-and even the more slowly slowed down Christopher Lloyd until then suddenly leads to massive lead hail, in which “Wonder Woman” amazone Connie Nielsen is allowed to handle this time. On top of that, we receive the unforgettable answer to the question of how the Machete versus Katana would go out. With this absurdity, this narrative pace and this enthusiasm for violence in concentrated space (the film does not even last 90 minutes), “Nobody 2” is recommended as the more compact alternative to the official “John Wick” offshoot “Ballerina”. And who knows: If you put more constant on the directorial strengths in “Nobody 3”, Hutch may be again consistently at eye level with Keanu Reeves' John Wick?
Conclusion: Sharon Stone gives a great villain, Bob Odenkirk remains a likeable action hero, the tourist trap setting ensures amusing variety-and as soon as brachial director Timo Tjahjanto falls after the initial restraint, “Nobody 2” becomes a delicious and off-do.