Nobody (2021).

“Give me the goddamn kitty bracelet, motherfucker!”

Directed by Ilya Naishuller

Written by Derek Kolstad

Starring Bob Odenkirk, Aleksey Serebryakov, Connie Nielsen, and lots and lots of dead Russians

The Stage.

Hutch Mansell, a mild mannered number cruncher for a machinery company, finds himself on the barrel end of a feud with a powerful Russian crime syndicate after he steps in to protect a young woman from the crime boss’s brother.

The Review.

Between Mr. Show, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul, I’ve seen a lot of Bob Odenkirk. In all of that time, not once did I ever think to myself, “He’d make an awesome action star.” Well, I’m saying it now - Bob Odenkirk was a fucking badass in Nobody.

Nobody and John Wick would make a perfect double feature (and almost have identical plots). The story is one you’ve seen a thousand times, but that’s not really why you’re watching this film - you’re probably watching for the action, the explosions, the gun play, and there’s loads of that. The film was directed by Ilya Naishuller who also directed the innovative first-person bonanza Hardcore Henry, so going in, you know that the action is going to be top notch.

People are blown up, cars are flipped, arteries are slit, nail bomb are detonated. There’s even a fucking homemade rebar rocket launcher that comes into play. Christopher Lloyd is here too and he has some badass moments as Hutch’s shotgun loving father David. It all looks great too, the cinematography is really great.

After a sweet-ass car chase set to Pat Benetar’s Heartbreaker, the flick charges towards a vicious R-rated Home Alone set-up that had me…and the bad guys…in stitches as they fell into each of Hutch’s carefully produced traps.

It’s hard to critique a movie like this because it’s literally giving you exactly what you paid for, but I guess I would have liked to see more interesting bad guys (or at least more variety). There’s a black Russian that’s in the film for a very short time and I would have liked to see more of him. The whole Russian gang motif has been done the same way a hundred times.

The End.

Nobody is an awesome action romp that fans of the genre will love. It’s like a mashup of Falling Down, John Wick, and History of Violence, so if you like those, there’s your in.

I highly recommend it and cannot wait to add this to the Blu-ray collection.