Nobody
by Robbo
Posted on 28 June 2021
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Nobody is a 2021 American action thriller film directed by Ilya Naishuller and written by Derek Kolstad.
The film stars Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Aleksei Serebryakov, RZA, Michael Ironside, Colin Salmon, and Christopher Lloyd.
Bob Odenkirk stars as Hutch Mansell, a middle aged ordinary family man, married to Becca (Connie Nielsen), with a teenaged son Blake (Gage Munroe) and young daughter Sammy (Paisley Cadorath).
In the opening of the film you see a montage of Hutch’s life, get up, ride the bus to a mundane job working for his father-in-law Eddie (Michael Ironside), ride the bus home and repeat.
Hutch and his wife have obvious marital problems as they sleep with a pillow wall between them, and as is pointed out later in the film, they haven’t been intimate for months.
One night their house is broken into by two burglars, Hutch goes downstairs, picks up a golf club and confronts them but all he has worth stealing is a few dollars and his watch, which they take.
As they are leaving Blake tackles one of the burglars and the other pulls a gun on him. Hutch could have intervened but decides not to and tells Bake to let the burglar go, which he does and the two burglars leave, one of them punching Blake.
This leads to an awkward breakfast where Hutch feels he has lost any respect his family had for him.
That evening Sally discovers that her kitty bracelet is missing and Hutch, believing the burglars took it goes out to find them.
He first travels to his father, David’s (Christopher Lloyd) retirement home and borrows his FBI badge and gun.
Remembering a tattoo one of the burglars had on their wrist he takes the bus all over town to try to track down the tattooist and eventually the burglar.
He finds the tattoo artist which leads him to the burglars apartment where he breaks in and threatens them, but when he discovers their sick baby, he leaves, frustrated and guilt-ridden.
The bus he takes home is suddenly stopped by a gang of thugs and Hutch takes out his frustration by savagely beating them under the pretence of protecting a young woman.
This is when you begin to realise that Hutch is not just an ordinary guy, that he has a hidden past which is now starting to reveal itself.
This event is the catalyst that leads onto the rest of the film as one of Hutch’s victims on the bus is the younger brother of Yulian Kuznetsov (Aleksei Serebryakov), a notorious Russian crime lord who vows to take revenge for his brother.
Nobody is a very surprising film. When I first went into the cinema I didn’t really know what to expect.
The film started at a fairly slow pace, but once the action started it just took off like a runaway train and never stopped.
Nobody isn’t anything new, it owes a lot to John Wick which is no surprise as it is written by Derek Kolstad who created the John Wick franchise.
The thing that elevates this above all other films of the genre is the subtle humour, the way it pokes fun at itself and the whole genre.
Bob Odenkirk puts in an amazing performance as Hutch. Odenkirk is most well known for playing the morally bankrupt lawyer Saul Goodman in the TV shows Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but in Nobody he shows he has what it takes to be an action star, albeit an unlikely one.
I left the cinema thinking ‘Wow, that was a great film’ and I can’t remember the last time I did that.
Nobody really surprised me at just how good it was and I can’t think of anything negative to say about it, that’s why it get five stars from me.
If you get chance to watch Nobody in cinema’s then I urge you to see it.
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