{"id":277940,"date":"2021-06-17T23:46:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hitmans-wifes-bodyguard-review-assassinate-this-movie-please\/"},"modified":"2021-06-17T23:46:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T20:46:22","slug":"hitmans-wifes-bodyguard-review-assassinate-this-movie-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hitmans-wifes-bodyguard-review-assassinate-this-movie-please\/","title":{"rendered":"#’Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’ review: Assassinate this movie, please"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’ review: Assassinate this movie, please<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Running time: 99 minutes. Rated R (strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and some sexual content). In theaters.\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The answer to the question \u201cHow many jokes can Salma Hayek<\/a> crack about her own breasts?\u201d has arrived in the form of a movie called \u201cThe Hitman\u2019s Wife\u2019s Bodyguard.\u201d Somebody else will have to add them up, though. There are so many, and I\u2019m no mathematician.<\/p>\n

And yet, somehow Hayek and the low-brow material she\u2019s been regrettably handed are the best part of this unwanted, unnecessary sequel to the also-bad 2017 buddy cop film \u201cThe Hitman\u2019s Bodyguard.\u201d Her returning co-stars Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds<\/a> are, respectively, coasting and unbearable.<\/p>\n

Reynolds plays Michael Bryce, the ninny bodyguard, who was so traumatized by the events of the first movie that he\u2019s been forced into therapy. His agonized therapist gets rid of the weirdo by telling him he\u2019s \u201cgraduated\u201d from their sessions and jets him off to the island of Capri for some R&R.<\/p>\n

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Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) reads \u201cThe Secret\u201d in Italy while his hotel is being attacked.<\/figcaption>
\u00a9Lions Gate\/Courtesy Everett Co<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As soon as he arrives in Italy, though, his hotel pool is laid siege by gunmen (naturally) and he\u2019s rescued by Sonia Kincaid (Hayek), the hitman\u2019s wife. She needs Bryce\u2019s help to save her husband Darius Kincaid (Jackson), the hitman, from his captors.<\/p>\n

Reynolds\u2019 high-pitched nerd shtick has worn thin in general<\/a> over the years, and here his squeaky voice would be better suited to scaring away pigeons in a parking garage. He whines and squeals while Jackson rattles off \u201cs\u2013t\u201ds and \u201cf\u2013k\u201ds and Hayek shimmies around making emotional pronouncements. (Like I said, she\u2019s the most entertaining of the lot).\u00a0<\/p>\n

For such an idiotic film, the villainy afoot is mighty difficult to wrap your head around. The EU has put sanctions on Greece for some reason, so a rich countryman (Antonio Banderas<\/a>, looking and sounding about as Greek as Suzanne Somers<\/a>) decides to infect Europe\u2019s internet grid with a virus that will destroy cars, trains, buildings and more in revenge.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s kind of like a Pierce Brosnan James Bond plot mixed with Michael Bay\u2019s excesses and then watered down so as to become totally forgettable.<\/p>\n

Bryce and the Kincaids\u2019 role in this head-scratching scheme is convoluted, as is Frank Grillo\u2019s special agent character, Bobby O\u2019Neill, who spends the whole movie begging to be transferred back to Boston from London while referring to his Scottish female translator as \u201cSean Connery.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sonia Kincaid (Salma Hayek) is the high-energy wife of hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) in \u201cThe Hitman\u2019s Wife\u2019s Bodyguard.\u201d<\/figcaption>
\u00a9Lions Gate\/Courtesy Everett Co<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Still, if it was better made, \u201cThe Hitman\u2019s Wife\u2019s Bodyguard\u201d would be your average bargain-bin action-comedy film. Director Patrick Hughes and screenwriters Tom O\u2019Connor, Phillip Murphy and Brandon Murphy\u2019s problem is that the balance of jokes and stakes is wildly off-kilter, so we don\u2019t care much about anybody.<\/p>\n

The characters are so wacky you don\u2019t believe them as killers or strategists or even just bystanders who are in the right place at the right time. You simply don\u2019t buy anything about them. Ever.\u00a0Just wait until Morgan Freeman shows up on-screen in a role so far beneath him, you\u2019d think he was getting career advice from Robert De Niro<\/a>.\n <\/div>\n

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“#’Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’ review: Assassinate this movie, please” Running time: 99 minutes. Rated R (strong bloody violence throughout, pervasive language and some sexual content). In theaters. The answer to the question \u201cHow many jokes can Salma Hayek crack about her own breasts?\u201d has arrived in the form of a movie called \u201cThe Hitman\u2019s Wife\u2019s Bodyguard.\u201d…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":277941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/hitmans-wifes-bodyguard-05.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[109650,7598,42819,76833,24882],"class_list":["post-277940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6-17-21","tag-movie-reviews","tag-ryan-reynolds","tag-salma-hayek","tag-samuel-l-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}