{"id":26363,"date":"2017-09-21T01:02:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T05:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=26363"},"modified":"2017-09-21T01:00:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T05:00:20","slug":"the-hitmans-bodyguard-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/21\/the-hitmans-bodyguard-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hitman\u2019s Bodyguard (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cThe Hitman\u2019s Bodyguard\u201d is the type of middling, mediocre nonsense that you\u2019re likely going to find playing on basic cable in three years. It\u2019s such an unremarkable, silly action comedy going through the motions and capitalizing on two men and what they\u2019re famous for. Stars Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds never break out of their comfort zones, and you can almost sense director Patrick Hughes asked both men to just be who everyone knows them for, and really nothing else. \u201cThe Hitman\u2019s Bodyguard\u201d is everything you think a movie starring Jackson and Reynolds will be like. Nothing ever really skirts the edges or thinks outside the box, and the violence seems just tacked on to what was probably a bland PG-13 action comedy in development.<\/p>\n

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Jackson plays a snarky and loud individual who drops F bombs like it\u2019s a bodily function. All the while Reynolds mugs for the camera, once again playing a cocky smart ass prone to delivering one-liners like it\u2019s going out of style. Speaking of going through the motions, there\u2019s Stephen Rea and Gary Oldman playing the foreign bad guys once more, with Oldman acting with an Eastern European accent he likely perfected hours before filming his first shot of the film. Oldman is such a stock villain that you have to wonder if he ever dozed off during filming. Reynolds is Michael, a protection agent still bruised from being fired from his duty as a federal agent. He\u2019s called upon by his ex-wife to help guard the life of his mortal enemy Darius, who happens to be a deadly hit man with a grudge to settle.<\/p>\n

Paired for twenty four hours, Michael and Darius have to learn how to tolerate each other or else Darius might be murdered by the relentless wave of assassins seeking him. Hoping to track him down, the government seeks the help of Darius\u2019 jailed girlfriend Sonia, who isn\u2019t willing to give up Darius for a break. \u201cThe Hitman\u2019s Bodyguard\u201d wants to be so many things, from a buddy action comedy, a hit man thriller, and a fractured romance and is only just an uneven, broadly written mess. None of the aforementioned elements ever amount to a remotely unique action comedy, and even at its best it never quite digs itself out of a hole as a third rate \u201cMidnight Run\u201d clone.<\/p>\n

One moment we find Salma Hayek slicing a man\u2019s throat in a bloody mess during a bar fight, and the next we find Jackson singing with nuns in a small jeep as Reynolds mugs. There really isn\u2019t a foil to either character, so Jackson and Reynolds seem to be competing to see who can be funnier and more outrageous, sacrificing what little interesting elements of the story there are. When the movie toys with the idea of being a thrilling action comedy, it instead opts for a lot of goofy flashback scenes, and drawn out comedic moments between the pair of leading men that never land. \u201cThe Hitman\u2019s Bodyguard\u201d is an instantly forgettable cinematic white noise that never re-invents the wheel, and is happy that way. Sadly, it\u2019s also one that will likely draw a sequel or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Hitman\u2019s Bodyguard\u201d is the type of middling, mediocre nonsense that you\u2019re likely going to find playing on basic cable in three years. It\u2019s such an unremarkable, silly action comedy going through the motions and capitalizing on two men and what they\u2019re famous for. Stars Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds never break out of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,219,631,703,851,1012,1087],"class_list":["post-26363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-comedy","tag-martial-arts","tag-mystery","tag-road-trip","tag-survival","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26365,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26363\/revisions\/26365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}