Hughes, and screenwriters Tom O’Connor, Brandon Murphy and Phillip Murphy take a more-is-more approach to everything in “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard”: more explosions, more gun battles, more boob jokes, more daddy issues, more reckless rampaging around Europe. Then again, “too much” tends to be a trend with these movies. It’s apparent quite quickly that Sonia in the lead is far too much Sonia. Jackson), and indeed, with a bodyguard (Ryan Reynolds) in tow, though he’s not doing much guarding of bodies. In the sequel, she is, of course, the wife of the hitman (Samuel L. The outlandish Sonia Kincaid ( Salma Hayek) is much more appealing in small doses, popping up as a bit of feminine comic relief, as she did in the first film. Because moviegoing carries risks during this time, we remind readers to follow health and safety guidelines as outlined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and local health officials.īack in 2017, I reviewed Patrick Hughes’ noisy buddy action-comedy “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” and wrote, “this film should have traded the hitman’s bodyguard for his wife - she’s the most compelling character in it.” It seems they took my advice for the sequel, “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard,” and after watching it I realize how very, very wrong I was four years ago. The Times is committed to reviewing theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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