The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is the sequel to the 2017 film The Hitman’s Bodyguard and Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L Jackson return for this sequel which sees them team up with Kincaid’s wife (Salma Hayek) to take on a ruthless businessman (Antonio Banderas) who wants to burn down Europe as revenge for imposing sanctions on Greece but the hitman, his bodyguard and the Hitman’s Wife will fight him with guns blazing.
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard delivers pretty much what I expected the film to do, be a fun action comedy with lots of violence, swearing and crazy plots not unlike the Fast and Furious films have recently been doing in terms of using technology to wreak havoc on the world and I had fun with all of those elements.
And that is really down to the cast, Ryan Reynolds (the good Canadian kid) and Samuel L Jackson have good chemistry and they play off each other very well as the guns and quips go off either around them or because of them, Antonio Banderas is good fun as the villain though I was a little disappointed he didn’t kill anyone with a sword in this movie given his work in the Mask of Zorro (a very underrated film.)
But the show stealer here is Salma Hayek who is completely unhinged the entire time she is on screen and turns full psychopath in her action scenes and it’s great though at times she gets a little too loud when she is yelling at the rest of the cast though I must also say the waste of Richard E Grant in this movie is something I cannot comprehend, when I saw his name in the credits I thought “Great” as I have loved his movie Jack and Sarah recently plus he was the one person who seemed to enjoy themselves in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker in 2019 but he has one scene and that’s it and it felt like for me a big waste.
And so that was the Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard and it’s fine for what it is, a fun action comedy with a good villain, 3 out of 5.
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