Movie Review: Nobody 2

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The new movie “Nobody 2” is the sequel to “Nobody”, released in 2021. This movie is almost entirely about the most violent and awkward fight scenes in the history of cinema, with the huge bus fight in the first movie being one of the most insane and crazy fight scenes ever filmed.

With this new version, there are several fight scenes as long and as crazy as the first movie, with the main character, Hutch Mansell played by Bob Odenkirk, taking on as many as eight attackers all at the same time, and despite being about five feet nine and maybe 200 pounds, Hutch manages to win every time. What is always ridiculous about movies like this, including the “John Wick” series, is that with so many guns and so many attackers all attacking at the same time, there is no way any of these fights would not result in the instant death of Hutch Mansell. The solution to this is to try to make the action scenes more believable, rather than so insane, but after all, this is a movie.

There is not much of a plot for this second installment, other than Hutch and his family, including his wife, Becca Mansell played by Connie Nielsen, and his two kids, Sammy and Brady, played by Paisley Cadorath and Gage Munroe taking a trip to an amusement park, where the arguments and fights with the townspeople starting with Gage start within minutes of their arrival. One shove of Hutch’s daughter by one of the security guards, and the insane fighting starts, and is followed by several more fights, one in a boat that is almost as impressive as the bus fight in the first movie.

Hutch’s father David, is also in the sequel, played by Christopher Lloy,d and his brother, Harry played again by RZA make the majority of their appearances during the final action scenes that resolve a huge battle at the amusement park between an evil woman, who heads a drug cartel, named Lendina, played by Sharon Stone. Two men, Hutch and a former member of the cartel, Wyat Martin, played by John Ortiz, hold off about 25 of Lendina’s soldiers, making for a finale that will remind everyone of all the John Wick movies.

Nobody 2 is not as good as the original, but the well-choreographed action fight scenes and special effects are enough to make this a solid recommendation, and I agree with the 78% Rotten Tomatoes consensus.

Movie Review: Freakier Friday

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The new movie “Freakier Friday”, the sequel to “Freaky Friday” released in 2003, is one of those bad movies that you are embarrassed to tell people you actually saw. I only saw this movie because the theater for the film I wanted to see had a broken projector, so I sat through this horrendous waste of two hours for this blog.

This entire story about people who swap bodies was so poorly done that for most of the movie, you are trying to figure out who swapped into who, all along hoping that this nightmare would be over soon. There is a series of filler side stories, entirely designed to make this movie last two hours, where the goal should have been to end this mess in 80 minutes.

Freakier Friday stars the same two main actors from the previous movie, Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan as Tess Coleman and Anna Coleman, and two new characters who are also swapped, Julia Butters and Sophia Hammons, who play Harper Coleman and Lily Reyes. After the initial screaming scene where they all found out they were swapped, it seemed that the swapping after effects were ignored in favor of other stories to fill out the two hours. It’s hard to believe that a bad movie from 2003 was greenlit for a sequel 22 years later. With millions of dollars at stake, what were the producers thinking with this disaster?

The Rotten Tomatoes average rating of 73% is way too high with my rating 10% and a run from this mess at all costs recommendation.


Movie Review: Weapons

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In another effort to stand out, the new movie “Weapons” had a starting time of 2:17 PM, to coincide with a pivotal moment in the movie. This is definitely an idea I have never seen before. For a horror movie, this one has more than its share of over-the-top, way too violent scenes, including one where an insane man crashes his head into the head of another man, way too many times. Is it necessary to kill another person several times over? We get it, this person is dead.

This story is about 17 children who ran from their homes late one night and are missing for weeks, with a narrative that is told out of order, reminiscent of the storytelling method in “Pulp Fiction” (1994). There is a very old witch-like woman, played by Amy Madigan, who casts spells using blood and old tree branches, and can put people in a coma-like state, ordering them to kill other people, or sit at a dinner table, while stabbing their faces with a fork (another scene that went on way too long). This film is insane, disturbing, crazy, and overly violent, and is not a movie for kids who are not older than 17.

Weapons stars Julia Garner as Justine Gandy, the schoolteacher whose students have gone missing, Josh Brolin plays Archer Graff, one of the parents of a missing child, who harasses the police to investigate and eventually investigates what happened to the 17 missing children himself. The ending of this horror movie involves one of the most disturbing scenes I have ever seen in any movie, once again, way too much and way over the top, unnecessary.

For some reason, the Rotten Tomatoes rating is a ridiculously high 96% for a movie that should be at best 75% only for some original ideas. My rating is 75% and a small recommendation only for the most die-hard horror movie fans who like to see an extreme gore-fest.