A formulaic but decently entertaining action film.

Nobody 2 is a polished and well-choreographed action film. That’s fine, but I found it to be the same movie as the first Nobody, which I already couldn’t love because it seemed to borrow so heavily from John Wick and Taken. The only difference is that the protagonist is on vacation this time, and his family is thrown into the primary conflict.

The star, Bob Odenkirk, looked tired and bored to me. I was surprised that some critics felt that he carried the film. I thought he looked like he was collecting a paycheck, or getting over a hangover.

The fight sequences are fun and wildly inventive enough to distinguish this from straight-to-streaming action movies. The climax is rife with death and carnage that seemed carefully and deftly mapped out. It’s impressive that the filmmakers took so much time to film the story’s carnage with such precision and creativity, but I wish they took that same effort to make a refreshing narrative.

I couldn’t shake the feeling that I’d seen this movie before, in spite of some good action. The plot of a seemingly ordinary guy living a double life as an assassin just felt tired to me. And I’d seen it done better in the John Wick movies.

Still, there are worse ways to spend two hours on a Saturday afternoon.

5/10