(film review) - The Hitman's wife's Bodyguard

I'm going to start off with...maybe I should have re-watched the first one before watching this.  Although I remember the first one, very vaguely, I remembered it was funny in places and it was simply Ryan Reynolds doing Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson doing Samuel L. Jackson with a lot of craziness involved and guns.
In this case, the sequel, this is more of the same but, I'm not sure if it was the drink, tiredness or straight delirium, but this movie had me laughing sooo hard, I was streaming tears and struggling to breathe.  It actually took me out of the film for possibly 5 minutes because I was trying to catch my breath back and stop crying! #Sigh #Goodtimes

Michael Bryce is a Bodyguard, or in this case, a former bodyguard.  Traumatised and suffering from PTSD, he wants out of the life and wants to make peace with it.  However, whilst trying to get away from it all and trying to get some peace and relaxation, Sonia Kincaid finds him and drags him back into the fold of being a Bodyguard for her whilst she has her own mission.  The problem is, Michael is on a sabbatical from guns and firearms and wants nothing to do with it all, but when Interpol show up demanding help to thwart a terrorist mastermind named Aristotle Papadopoulos, Bryce must find a way to carry out the mission and get back into bodyguarding, the very thing he has been trying to get away from.

This film is funny! Whilst there might be some over the top moments, some dark humour, the action comedy doesn't get any more action comedy than this.  There was a scene where a car blows up (it's an action film, this can't be a spoiler), and the first thing I thought was, "Ok, that was excessive...Michael Bay would have loved that" But that's just it, the film has excessive moments a plenty, but teeters on the end of anything in the recent Fast and Furious movies.  This movie does everything to push Michael Bryce, especially as he doesn't want to be a bodyguard, so essentially what the life of bodyguarding is like and pairs him up with two impossible people he shouldn't be around.

There is a scene later in the movie that straight killed me in the cinema and I can't say too much as I could give away the scene but it was comedic genius. Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds destroyed the scene as the acting was perfect especially coming from their characters.  Selma was also masterful as she was straight fowl-mouthed and everything you may vaguely remember from the first movie, but more.  Antonio was great as essentially a Bond villain and he also played his part well, but a special shout out goes to, Frank Grillo, Richard E. Grant and Tom Hooper, as Frank was good, Richard was great and Tom was just excellent.  I'm enjoying seeing more of Tom in films as I remember him from Game of Thrones as Dickkon, but more recently as Luther in Umbrella Academy.  Put him in the MCU so we have more 'T' 'H' 's to rival the many Chris'.

You do not necessarily need to see the first  movie to watch this one as it pretty much stands by itself and the movie has some soft character building moments too, but all in all, this was definitely worth the watch as I had soo much fun with this!  I hope they do another.

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(trailer review) - The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

 

(Trailer 2)

(Red Band Teaser) Red Band Trailer - Please note adult themed material.

(Teaser Trailer)

The first trailer was decent and as I enjoyed it and it reminded me of the first film.  The second trailer which was the Red Band trailer wasn't that great at all.  In a comparison on how you advertise a movie trailer, those at Warner Bros who did Suicide Squad, did a great job.  Two distinct trailers.  But this trailer, damn, this trailer definitely sells me on the idea of watching this movie as it is greatly better than the first and second trailer.

This trailer, not only is it different from the first but gives us the synopsis in a totally different way by at first, providing a scene that ended the last trailer by putting it in the beginning and adding to it.  A little more to the counselling scene and a little more to the "rescue scene".  "It's pronounced, Thank you".  

The second trailer did not do enough to sell the audience while this one shows us more actors like Morgan Freeman and Frank Grillo and they even brought back "The Cinema Guy" who used to say things in his deep voice, "In A World..." which has been missing since the 90's.  Definitely sold on this one now as the other trailer did nothing, but I will say this, I hope they didn't get bad feedback from the last trailer and decided to throw in everything that makes the film great and/or funny in this one so we essentially see all the jokes and action.  We will see.

Directed by Patrick Hughes and starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, Frank Grillo, Richard E. Grant, Antonio Banderas and Morgan Freeman

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(trailer review) - The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

(Red Band Teaser) Red Band Trailer - Please note adult themed material.

(Teaser Trailer)

Is it wild of me to think that Red Band trailers are now the new craze? I feel like I haven't seen one in soo long and in the space of a few weeks, there has been three! This isn't a complaint at all, I don't mind them, it just feels new.

However, unlike The Suicide Squad trailer, this trailer isn't drastically different from the other trailer as it shows a few more bits and introduces the swearing rather than allude to it in places, so I wasn't really wow'ed by the trailer at all.  I do feel that maybe this trailer should have came first if they were going to do a red band one because this one is somewhat lacklustre.  At least The Suicide Squad gave us a completely different trailer for both their red band and non-red band trailer.  I'm just saying it didn't move the needle for me much at all.  In fact, it might have moved it slightly negatively.  I don't know what it is but I now think they are trying too hard to sell it.  We will see.

Directed by Patrick Hughes and starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, Frank Grillo, Richard E. Grant, Antonio Banderas and Morgan Freeman

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(trailer review) - The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard

First of all, the name of this is stupid, but considering how comical this film seems to be AND like the original (or first one, The Hitman's Bodyguard), we are obviously going with the same comedic capers with Ryan's character as before.

The premise of this is funny.  The Hitman's Bodyguard is assigned unwillingly to protect the wife of the hitman, becoming her bodyguard to help save the hitman whilst trying to refrain from shooting, killing or doing anything he would normally do as a bodyguard, "No Guns, No Killing and No Blood".  Suffering from some type of PTSD and stress from his job as a hitman, antics ensue...lol.  "A child would be soo happy to have you as it's host" LOL! I'm definitely interested especially as the first one was decent too.

Directed by Patrick Hughes and starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, Frank Grillo, Richard E. Grant, Antonio Banderas and Morgan Freeman

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