Bob Odenkirk might not seem like your typical action hero but after "Nobody" I think all that might change. Odenkirk's Hutch does appear to be something of a nobody, an ordinary working class guy who can hardly tell one day from the next since they are all the same, that is until one night his home is broken into and his family threatened. No, he doesn't go all 'John Wick' suddenly, (in fact, he does nothing), but the incident awakens something in him and before you can say Keanu or Bronson, Hutch's past has crept up on him and all hell looks like it will break loose, (it does).
Ilya Naishuller's hugely entertaining action-thriller came and went without getting anything like the attention it deserved. It's deeply silly and very violent yet it's also highly original in its cartoonish kind of way with movie references scattered here and there and it's very stylishly directed by Naishuller; you might even call it a 'post-modern' John Wick movie. Everything that a movie like this should have it has but Naishuller keeps his tongue firmly in his cheek and a lot of the time it's laugh out loud funny. Great fun, maybe even a classic, though I'm worried in case the inevitable follow-up doesn't make the grade.
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