Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard Critique: Ryan Reynolds Sequel Sucks

The Pitch: 4 yrs have handed considering that neurotic bodyguard Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) teamed up with his nemesis, loudmouthed hitman Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson), to stop a war prison at the Hague, which remaining him traumatized and his license to guard bodies suspended. But just as he begins a business-mandated “sabbatical” from bodyguarding, Bryce is roped into nonetheless another intercontinental plot by Kincaid’s chaotic con-woman wife Sonia (Salma Hayek), who begs him to assist her rescue her spouse from bad men.

From there, it is a Europe-trotting romp to prevent a Greek billionaire (Antonio Banderas, cast for no other motive than to drive a Desperado reunion with Hayek) from working with a diamond-tipped drill to destroy Europe for the crimes it’s committed in opposition to Greece, I guess? In any case, there is a large amount of pratfalls and bickering, conventional motion buddy comedy things, rinse, repeat.

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