Film Review - Nobody 2 (2025)

Nobody 2 is the sequel to the 2021 action comedy Nobody and Bob Odenkirk returns as Hutch, the quiet family man who was an action man in a past life and this time he takes his family (Christopher Lloyd, Connie Nielsen, Gage Munroe and Paisley Cadorath) to an amusement park called Plummerville but there’s more going on here than just water slides and bumper cars.

Nobody 2 is a great sequel and I probably like this more than the first movie and first off Bob Odenkirk is great in this role and while watching him here I was reminded of Bruce Willis who might have played in this role in the past if his health had been better as like Willis, Odenkirk has that great everyman quality to him that hides his ability to kick ass and Hutch kicks a lot of bottom in this sequel and it is a lot of fun to watch.

The film also makes great use of the Plummerville tourist town especially in the third act where it becomes a centre for action and there are a lot of fun moments during these scenes.

But the MVP here has to be Sharon Stone as the villain, she goes full Cruella De Ville here and every scene she’s in is a blast to watch, she knows what movie she’s in and goes for it all the way and I loved watching every moment of it.

And so that was Nobody 2 and it is great fun with a good villain, exciting action and a relatable hero, 3 and a half out of 5.

Film Review - Weapons (2025)

Weapons is the new horror movie by Zach Cregger who made Barbarian in 2022 and concerns a class of School Children who’s teacher is Mrs Candy (Julia Garner) and at 2.17am one morning the kids all got up and ran out of the house never to return, Mrs Candy is suspected as being responsible for their disappearance but things in this case aren’t always what they seem to be.

Weapons is a bit of a disappointment for me I’m sorry to say, this isn’t to say it’s a bad movie because it isn’t but its also one I wish I liked more than I did.

Firstly Cregger’s direction is excellent and he makes great use of the 2.35:1 aspect ratio, during Mrs Candy’s segment of the film the camera has this unease to it as if at any corner, at any moment something could happen to her that she doesn’t see coming but we the audience can in the sides of the frame, he also does a great job with generating the tension of the film as the film goes on.

And the film also has a lot of good performances, Garner is very good as Mrs Candy but so is Josh Brolin as a local Construction Site chief who’s son is also one of the missing, Amy Madigan is very good as Gladys a mysterious woman who comes to visit the town and Aldren Ehrenreich and Benedict Wong are good in small supporting roles as well.

But where this film let me down was in its storytelling, the film has this fractured story device where the events are told from different character perspectives and after a while it began to work less well with me, one segment would start to get somewhere in terms of the mystery of the missing children and then it would cut to the next character storyline and the tension and suspense would dissipate again and after a couple of times of this happening I began to get less interested and wanted it to stick to one path and one path only.

And also the final payoff felt a little anti climatic for me as much like Barbarian, when all is said and done I thought to myself “Is that all” and wanted something a little more to it all not unlike another horror film Bring Her Back from earlier this year which again had a good setup and premise but lacked a strong enough payoff to win me over and it’s a real shame.

And so that was Weapons and this is sadly my big disappointment of 2025 movie wise, its well directed, has good performances and a good setup but its payoff felt lacking and I wanted that part to be more than it was, 2 and a half out of 5.

Film Review - The Naked Gun (2025)

The Naked Gun is a continuation of the classic comedy series from the late 80s/mid 90s and this time Liam Neeson takes over as Frank Drebin Jr, son of the late great Frank Drebin played by Leslie Nielsen, the story here concerns a tech mogul Nathan Cane (Danny Huston) who has sinister plans for the world and Drebin will have to have his wits about him to stop it.

The Naked Gun is a hard property to bring back as comedies on film don’t really exist as the force they once were (primarily thanks to a lot of bad parody films and the Judd Apatow Comedy Club where watching these films turned into an agonising evening of ad lib that isn’t funny) and also Leslie Nielsen was Frank Drebin which makes him nigh on impossible to replace.

Luckily this movie does him and the series proud as this was the most fun I have had in a cinema all year and first off the film is very very funny, like the earlier movies there are a lot of gags in the film in all corners of the frame, in the background, in the foreground and littered throughout almost every scene and a lot of them generate great laughs.

The other reason this movie works as well as it does is the cast, Neeson makes for a great replacement of Nielsen by essentially parodying his action man image and combining with his great sense of comic timing and like Nielsen before him he plays it straight down the line and it works wonderfully, Pamela Anderson fills the shoes of Priscilla Presley very well and has great chemistry with Neeson while Paul Walter Hauser makes for a good replacement of George Kennedy.

Where this movie also works is with its villain, Cane is definitely inspired by certain tech personalities but Huston does very well with the role much like Ricardo Montalban and Robert Goulet did with the first 2 films in the series and while he doesn’t get as many laughs as Neeson does he plays the straight man well.

And so that is the Naked Gun and it is great fun, tightly paced, full of good comedy, a good villain and Neeson doing Nielsen proud as Frank Drebin, can’t ask for anymore than that, 4 out of 5.