Nobody 2 (2025)
2021's Nobody was a modest hit on a modest budget. It was an amusing farcical spin on A History of Violence—a stone-cold killer who's settled into a quiet life with a family has to show his true colors again. Even though it was entertaining, at no point did this reviewer think, "Gosh, this needs a sequel." However, viewers got one four years later with the half-baked Nobody 2.
Hutch (Bob Odenkirk) is now an assassin
again as he tries to work off debts incurred in the previous film. However, he
needs a vacation, so he takes his wife and two children to a small town in
Wisconsin with a decaying theme park. He soon learns it's a corrupt town with a
bullying sheriff (Colin Hanks) and a psychopathic gangster (Sharon Stone)
pulling the strings.
Even at a brief 89 minutes, Nobody 2 feels padded. There's little to no story here. It's just a series of ho-hum fights with extreme gore (hopefully, filmmakers will soon realize this level of gore is not edgy since so many action and horror films feature it these days). The humor of the original film is also lacking here. Christopher Lloyd returns as Hutch's dad but is given absolutely nothing to do.
Given its theme park setting, the slapdash Nobody 2 is reminiscent of the equally underwhelming Beverly Hills Cop III. Stay away.
