150 Word Review: 'Nobody 2' (2025)
Pounding father
The first Nobody was nothing special: Bob Odenkirk played a mild-mannered middle-aged family man who cures his impotence by killing a few dozen heavily-armed, home-invading Russian mobsters. Dad Wick.
Four years later, there’s a sequel. I had forgotten the original. So I'm surprised. I didn't know I wanted a version of National Lampoon's Family Vacation where the uncle is a ninja who decapitates a henchman. Bob Odenkirk is a versatile actor who can play timid sadsack in his sleep, but he isn't a credible super assassin, and that's the charm of this power fantasy. If Odenkirk can kick ass, then so could I? (LOL.)
The setting? A shabby amusement park run by an evil sheriff who's in cahoots with an even more evil crime boss, an absolute maniac, played by the great Sharon Stone. The (also) great Christopher Lloyd returns as Grandma Psycho. A family that kills together stays together.
New 150 Word Review: ‘War of the Worlds’ (2025)
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This is so coincidental, but I was recently reading another article that examined the way in which violence in dad movies could be read as a way to displace anger or to affirm egos. I'll leave the link here, in case you're interested:https://www.peliplat.com/en/article/10076563/sudden-death-sudden-dad-sudden-truce
I’m glad the RZA got to use a samurai sword this time.