The Hitman's Bodyguard
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canyonwalkerRecently we watched the movie, The Hitman's Bodyguard. It's from 2017 and stars Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson.
With two action-adventure stars cast in the film you'd expect it to be a good action-adventure movie. And it is. Reynolds' character is an elite but down-on-his-luck bodyguard (he loses a major client in the opening act) called upon to escort Jackon's killer-for-hire character to a trial where he's to provide testimony about a war criminal. Said war criminal has armies of goons trying to stop Jackson from testifying. There are lots of car chases and shoot-outs.
What you might not expect from a movie co-starring Samuel L. Jackson is that it's also a comedy. Well, you might expect that knowing how Ryan Reynolds tends to play things, e.g., in the Deadpool movies. A glance at the movie poster I've included here (it's a cheeky one— not all are) hints the movie's a satire of the bodyguard genre. Thankfully it's not a parody of the Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston movie The Bodyguard (1992). That movie was so bland I don't even think it's worth satirizing. (Sort of like how Weird Al Yankovic has said certain popular songs were too simplistic to parody.)
The humor angle of the movie is basically Reynolds and Jackson trash-talking each other. That plus the fun of the car chases and shootouts makes it worth watching. Turn off your brain (since the show's logic is fairly weak) and enjoy the action scenes and repartee.
With two action-adventure stars cast in the film you'd expect it to be a good action-adventure movie. And it is. Reynolds' character is an elite but down-on-his-luck bodyguard (he loses a major client in the opening act) called upon to escort Jackon's killer-for-hire character to a trial where he's to provide testimony about a war criminal. Said war criminal has armies of goons trying to stop Jackson from testifying. There are lots of car chases and shoot-outs.
What you might not expect from a movie co-starring Samuel L. Jackson is that it's also a comedy. Well, you might expect that knowing how Ryan Reynolds tends to play things, e.g., in the Deadpool movies. A glance at the movie poster I've included here (it's a cheeky one— not all are) hints the movie's a satire of the bodyguard genre. Thankfully it's not a parody of the Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston movie The Bodyguard (1992). That movie was so bland I don't even think it's worth satirizing. (Sort of like how Weird Al Yankovic has said certain popular songs were too simplistic to parody.)
The humor angle of the movie is basically Reynolds and Jackson trash-talking each other. That plus the fun of the car chases and shootouts makes it worth watching. Turn off your brain (since the show's logic is fairly weak) and enjoy the action scenes and repartee.
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