Tags: blog, film, action, 2025
Author: KickingK
Date: Thursday September 11th, 2025
And figured this out and no one gets hurt
The first film is a pretty ropey film with some decently violent fight scenes that really explodes at the end into an orgy of Looney Tunes scale ultra violence. John Wick re-written by Rick Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. The surprise of the sheer scale and glee of that final fight glossed over how threadbare the rest of the film was.
The second film is pretty much exactly the same except it’s on holiday and the final fight is rubbish. Everything is sign posted, nothing is a surprise. No wit, no style, no panache.
Celebrity guest cameos:
- RZA’s does his watered down Ghost Dog impression. He’s decent again.
- Sharon Stone doesn’t so much chew the scenery as rip it to pieces with her bare teeth. Sadly, the script is dull and lifeless and she’s wasted.
- Christopher Lloyd turns up. He doesn’t do anything, at all, but he does turn up.
- The dog gets the best laughs of the film but is only in it for a minute.
On the plus side, it’s only 90 minutes long, doesn’t outstay its welcome and clips along at such a brisk pace that it’s never boring. But I kind of feel like that’s the bare minimum for an action movie. It’s like praising a pop song for having a catchy tune. Yes, that’s the point. You’ve done the absolute bare minimum that’s expected of you, now what?
In Nobody 2’s case: absolutely nothing.
