Nobody 2 (film): Not good: This will be an unpopular opinion

I think I was in the same boat as almost everyone else when we heard/saw that Bob Odinkirk was going to be some sort of action hero type. It just didn't make sense from a physical or acting point of view and all of us didn't think it could happen.

Then we watched Nobody (the first one) and he completely blew our minds.

For me and others that feel the way that I do, I think that the 2nd installment of this film series took the worst parts of the first movie, or perhaps the only bad parts of it and then made an entire 2nd installment out of those pieces and I honestly cannot understand why.

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I understand that they cannot simply tell the same story as the first one over again but part of, or perhaps the best of, that film that made it so entertaining and unusual / unique was the fact that we, the audience spent the first half of the entire film not really thinking that Huth (Bob Odinkirk) was really a bad-ass but was just imagining what it might be like to have courage. That is what made the suspense so great so when he did finally have that famous bus scene it was just a heavy and wonderful roller-coaster ride of "wow, this guy is a bad-ass!" that we can imagine all of us being because he is a normal, well-behaved simple guy.

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While i realize that in Nobody 2 we, the audience already know about Hutch's abilities, the realm that they are building for us is one where the people around him and his family do NOT know that and they had a good opportunity to run with that notion yet again. Instead, we end up with Hutch being arrogant, ready to take on bad situations all the time and even sort of running towards trouble whereas in the first film he was entirely all about avoiding trouble at all costs.

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They attempt to "explain this away" by letting us know that he is in a huge amount of debt and must do hardcore bad-ass things on a regular basis in order to not get killed by some sort of network of assassins, but seriously: He seemed quite immune to all of that at the end of episode 1.

The end of Nobody 1 was in my opinion, the only BAD part of that film. They went from a dark and gruesome action film with a lot of hidden secrets to a warehouse filled with absurd action sequences that seemed to be tailor made to making sure the Dr. Emmet Brown could have some sort of revival as an action sidekick - which was completely unnecessary both for the film and Christopher Lloyd as a person.

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They had the perfect ending for Nobody 1 already. Hutch had been pursued by people that don't know he is a world-class assassin and at the end he makes his way to their headquarters and successfully intimidates all of them in one of the most bad-ass ways possible with a claymore mine.

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After that part of Nobody 1 the film devolves into a massive warehouse shootout that is as whimsical as it is impractical. It is a massive and stupid shoot-up involving hundreds of people against 3 (1 of which is geriatric) and the 3 win with almost no difficulty. Up to the point the storyline was conceivable that one man could actually be better than the people he is facing but at the warehouse point, everything is just kind of stupid... It doesn't matter how much time they had to prepare for the invaders to turn up, it is just ludicrous to think that 3 people could take on that many and emerge victorious.

It is silly, impossible, dumb, and borderline slapstick in its presentation. And guess what? Nobody 2 takes that horrible aspect of the first movie and applies it to all of the 2nd one.

In the second film things start out normal with Hutch's family being in the dark about his abilities which to me, is essential to him being a real "Nobody" but within very little time we see him and his family members needing to take on an entire city in I guess it was New Mexico or something. It doesn't really matter where because it isn't a real place. The point is that things get over-the-top-absurd and they even involved Tom Hank's kid in the process.

It's awful.

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I don't think that Nobody 2 resonated with audiences the way that the first one did but honestly, I haven't bothered to check. I am sure that the bought-and-paid-for media jumped exactly where they are supposed to and the Chinese bot-farms filled in the void to make it look exactly as good as they needed it to. In the meantime people that actually watched it that you know, unless they were little kids, probably thought this was just another really stupid and over-the-top action film because that is exactly what it is.

The fact that Bob Odinkirk is not a realistic hero is no longer part of the equation because everything that happens in this film is unrealistic including and especially the lesbian girl-boss knife bosses that make ZERO sense.

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I liked her dog.... but terrible character and terrible actress portraying her.

Should I watch it?

If you read any of the above you will already know the answer to this. I like Bob Odenkirk and I appreciate people getting thrown into roles that we don't expect them to be in. Nobody saw Nobody ending up like it did. I just can't believe that they went and took this guy who is not the kind of person that would be in a Jason Statham film at all, then went and build a Jason Statham film around his already established and very different sort of character.

It doesn't work, it's stupid, and it is exactly the same as every other sort of mass-produced action film that Statham and many others have starred in. They took everything that made this film unique and threw it all out the door as soon as they could.

This is trash!

_{If you want to watch a Statham film, go watch that! There are many of them and they are all the same as this one. However, if you insist on watching Nobody 2 it can be rented on almost all platforms for a few dollars. It is, as of yet, not streaming as part of any subscription}