You wait all these years for the next action stars to emerge, only to come to find that you have been waiting at the wrong doors and looking at the wrong are groups all along. After Liam Neeson knocked us all bandy nearly 15 years ago with a later career action star transformation we never saw coming in Pierre Morel’s Taken and Keanu Reeves was reborn in a role he was born for in 2014’s John Wick, we now have another unexpected action hero emerging and his name is Bob Odenkirk. A familiar face actor to many, he has thrived particularly on TV through incredible turns in the likes of Breaking Bad, its spin-off Better Call Saul and Fargo. Odenkirk’s career has been varied certainly, but even with that fact in mind, few of us ever expected Nobody.
The film centres on Hutch Mansell (Odenkirk) a husband/father whose...
The film centres on Hutch Mansell (Odenkirk) a husband/father whose...
- 7/9/2021
- by Jack Bottomley
- The Cultural Post
Stars: Bob Odenkirk, Connie Nielsen, Alexey Serebryakov, Christopher Lloyd, RZA, Michael Ironside, Colin Salmon, Billy MacLellan, Gage Munroe | Written by Derek Kolstad | Directed by Ilya Naishuller
Mild-mannered Bob Odenkirk goes all John Wick in this gleefully violent action thriller that has a few surprises up its sleeve. How violent is it? Well, director Ilya Naishuller’s previous feature was first person shoot-’em-up Hardcore Henry and it’s from both the writer (Derek Kolstad) and producer (David Leitch) of, yep, John Wick. In other words, it’s pretty goddamn violent.
Nobody opens with a teaser of what’s to come, as a blood-spattered Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) sits across a table being questioned. “Who are you?”, comes the question, and the title card provides the answer. The rest of the film unfolds in flashback, opening with a terrific loser’s montage, establishing exactly what the week-to-week life of suburban dad...
Mild-mannered Bob Odenkirk goes all John Wick in this gleefully violent action thriller that has a few surprises up its sleeve. How violent is it? Well, director Ilya Naishuller’s previous feature was first person shoot-’em-up Hardcore Henry and it’s from both the writer (Derek Kolstad) and producer (David Leitch) of, yep, John Wick. In other words, it’s pretty goddamn violent.
Nobody opens with a teaser of what’s to come, as a blood-spattered Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) sits across a table being questioned. “Who are you?”, comes the question, and the title card provides the answer. The rest of the film unfolds in flashback, opening with a terrific loser’s montage, establishing exactly what the week-to-week life of suburban dad...
- 6/9/2021
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
Nobody Review — Nobody (2021) Video Movie Review, a movie directed by Ilya Naishuller, and starring Bob Odenkirk, Aleksey Serebryakov, Connie Nielsen, Michael Ironside, Christopher Lloyd, Colin Salmon, RZA, Billy MacLellan, Araya Mengesha, Gage Munroe, Paisley Cadorath, Aleksandr Pal, Humberly González, Edsson Morales, and J.P. Manoux. Crew Derek Kolstad wrote the screenplay for Nobody. [...]
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Nobody (2021): Director Ilya Naishuller crafts a good John Wick-like Everyman Action Film...
Continue reading: Video Movie Review: Nobody (2021): Director Ilya Naishuller crafts a good John Wick-like Everyman Action Film...
- 5/27/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
As most of the country enters full Spring break “status”, the studio wants to lure film fans back into the theatres with a genre that usually thrives in the warmer months, the “rock ’em, sock ’em”, ” hard” R-rated action flick. Ah, but something sets this one apart from the other “bone-crunchers” of the box office. Well, right off, from the poster and other marketing, we see it stars an actor being, to put it mildly, “cast against type”. Oh, but the lead role is the vital ingredient in this new mix of thriller elements while tossing in tropes of other genres. From those comic book-inspired sagas, we get a “master of mayhem” who’s wrapped in the guise of an average joe. And, as with horror flicks, there’s lots of concern about whether his unleashed “inner beast” can be tamed once more. So basically, almost everyone initially dismisses him since,...
- 3/26/2021
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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