Nobody 2 review: 'National Lampoon’s Vacation meets The A-Team'
This second outing for Bob Odenkirk’s former black-ops agent Hutch Mansell sees him discover a hotbed of Russian mafia activity in an amusement park, orchestrated by a hamming-it-up Sharon Stone. Review by Alistair Harkness
Nobody 2 (15) ★★☆☆☆
National Lampoon’s Vacation meets The A-Team in Nobody 2, a repetitive follow-up to the 2021 Bob Odenkirk-starring action movie about former black-ops agent hiding out in the suburbs as a mild-mannered family man.
Now on the hook for the mafia money he destroyed in the first film, Odenkirk’s Hutch Mansell has settled into another tedious routine, this time carrying out hit after hit to clear some of his debt, a Sisyphean task that’s once again having a debilitating effect on his home life.
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Resolving to take a vacation to reconnect with his family, they decide to visit a seen-better-days amusement park and promptly encounter a hotbed of Russian mafia activity orchestrated by a hamming-it-up Sharon Stone.
John Wick writer Derek Kolstad once again comes up with plenty of elaborate set-pieces including, inevitably, a booby-trapped finale in the aforementioned theme park. But the routine violence, combined with Odenkrik’s jokey dad-bod physique, just makes it seem like that gag in the recent Naked Gun movie where the hero gets bored punching out wave after wave of bad guys.
Colin Hanks attempts to shake things up as a good ol’ boy sheriff with a Forrest Gump haircut, but it’s perfunctory stuff.
Nobody is in cinemas from 15 August
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