My Thoughts on “Nobody” (2021)

(This is the poster for Nobody (2021).) 

 

 

 

Who am I? I’m nobody. I wonder how many people said that in their reviews after they saw this movie. With me, it fits because I pretty am a nobody online. This actually was a line in the 2011 3D animated film, Rango (which was animated by the visual effects company, Industrial Light & Magic, or ILM, BTW), pretty much word for word. I wonder if that’s where they got the inspiration for the title of this movie, and for that line in that movie. Like, let’s take that one line from Rango where Rango says he’s nobody, and then base an entire movie around that. Probably not, but it’s fun to think about. There are a bunch of movies where people say they’re nobody, long before the movie, Nobody (2021), like Rango (as I just mentioned) and Tropic Thunder. You know, the part of the movie where Kirk Lazarus has an identity crisis (caused by Tugg Speedman) and he says at the end of it, “I think I might be nobody.” 

 

Oh, and of course, in the first John Wick movie, the asshole Russian guy 🇷🇺♂︎, Iosef Tarasov (the one who actually kills John Wick’s dog 🐶, and starts him on his whole revenge path and killing spree that leads all the way to the High Table; not really, because even in the fourth movie, John Wick still doesn’t face the High Table directly) calls John Wick a “nobody,” before his father, Viggo promptly schools him and tells him (and by extension, the audience) who John Wick really is. That’s relevant to this review because several people who worked on the John Wick franchise worked on this movie as well, and there are fan theories that this movie (and its sequel, Nobody 2) take place in the same universe as the John Wick movies; which, after seeing the movie for myself, I personally disagree with. So maybe, instead of Rango or Tropic Thunder, it was John Wick (the first one) that gave the filmmakers behind this movie the inspiration to make a movie called Nobody, and have the main character, Hutch Mansell say the line, “Me? Me, I’m–I’m nobody” when asked who he is by who I assume are FBI agents; though they could just be regular police detectives, police detectives wear suits like that, not just FBI agents or any other federal law enforcement officer, whether it be a US Marshal 🇺🇸 or whatever. 

First of all, before I start reviewing the actual movie, I want to apologize for my long absence for the last week and a half. I had intended to get this review out earlier on in the month, in the first week, and then the review of Fight or Flight ✈️ either the same week, or the second week of the month, but our Internet 🛜 was shut off by our provider, T-Mobile due to my grandma being behind on paying and not having the minimum amount to have our services restored. It was off for a week and a half. I ended up just rewatching videos that I had previously saved onto my Backup Plus to me busy, as well as play video games, though the only one I actually played was Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway. Our Internet 🛜 didn’t get restored until Thursday September 11, 2025, when my aunt stepped in and paid the bill for us. That’s how I’m able to watch YouTube again, and write this review for you guys. I missed a lot of stuff while I was away, like I learned that Charlie Kirk died. 

 

He was gunned down by a murderer’s bullet while he was attending a college event (like he always does), talking about “gang violence” among other things. He was a far-right commentator and activist online, who’s known for starting Turning Point USA 🇺🇸, an organization meant to radicalize young people and make them more right-wing, and not only that, but make them supporters of Donald Trump. Turning Point USA 🇺🇸 publicly supported Trump, and actively campaigned for him and might’ve even donated money 💵 to his campaign. Many people, including myself, see Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA 🇺🇸 as contributing factors as to why Trump got re-elected in 2024. He died the day before my Internet 🛜 got restored, on Wednesday September 10, 2025, so I didn’t know until after it happened, and everyone was talking about it on YouTube and on social media. I first l learned about Kirk’s death from watching Adam Kinzinger’s video on the matter. 

Now, I wasn’t even sure if I should talk about this here, during my explanation for why I was gone and why I haven’t posting any new content on this blog since my review of The East 🇳🇱🇮🇩 (2020), and if I should keep this apolitical and focused solely on the movie, but I feel I should get it off my chest now while it’s still somewhat relevant and before something else happens and people move onto the next thing, and so I don’t have talk about it in a foreword of another repost, which I am planning to do pretty soon; the next repost will be my review of The King’s Man ♂︎, the Kingsman prequel film set during World War I. And I can just talk about something else in said foreword. I’ve already got something in mind, just you wait 😒. I’ll give you a hint though, it has with superheroes, DC (as in, DC Studios), and James Gunn.

 

I don’t feel sorry for Charlie Kirk at all. I think he was a danger to this country, he’s a huge contributor to why the country is way it is right now. He’s part of the reason why Trump was president again. And on top of that the killer, was right wing (coming from a conservative Mormon family and growing up around guns since he was a kid), so, he was killed by the very monster he helped create. Because don’t forget, Charlie Kirk, during his time as a far-right commentator and activist, he actively called for political violence against the Left and cheered it on when it happened like when Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi was attacked in their home by a right-wing extremist and Trump supporter, and made excuses for mass shootings, particularly those in schools, saying that they’re the price we have to pay for the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms granted by the American Constitution 🇺🇸. 

 

He was also anti-vax, and called vaccine mandates 💉, mask mandates 😷, and lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic 🦠😷. He also supported the Big Lie (that Trump won the 2020 Election 🗳️ and that it was stolen from him by Joe Biden and the Democrats), and supported the January 6 insurrection. Not only that, but he called the insurrection a “peaceful protest 🪧,” and the insurrectionists “heroes” and “patriots.” Oh, and for you ladies ♀︎, he was staunchly anti-abortion and “pro-life” (there’s nothing actually pro-life about being anti-abortion, which is why I call such people “anti-abortion” and not “pro-life” like they like to label themselves as) saying that if his daughter got raped and impregnated at the age 10, he would force her to carry that baby to term instead of getting an abortion. 

 

He wouldn’t have shown any sympathy if this had happened to anyone else, especially if it was someone on the left, in fact he’d be dancing on their graves 🪦, saying that they had it coming. So, why would we be proper and show decorum in this moment, why should feel sorry for him and pay our respects as if he wasn’t an extreme right wing grifter who helped bring a fascist into power? To me, he had it coming, and the world is much better place without him and his voice spreading lies and propaganda, all for the benefit of Trump, and even Vladimir Putin and Russia 🇷🇺, since he was also a Russian sympathizer 🇷🇺, and didn’t support Ukraine 🇺🇦 at all, and in fact, called for all aid (military or otherwise) be cut off, all for the sake of “America first 🇺🇸” 🙄, that bullshit. 

 

And of course, for all the people who care about Gaza and Palestine 🇵🇸, he openly supported Israel 🇮🇱 and didn’t just merely excuse the deaths of Palestinians 🇵🇸 in Gaza, but actively cheered them on; pretty much towing the Israeli line 🇮🇱 that Palestinians 🇵🇸 are subhuman, and they all deserve to die because they support Hamas, and thus are all complicit in the October 7 attack; that isn’t true of course, not all Palestinians 🇵🇸 supported Hamas, or their Islamist agenda ☪️ and overall authoritarian way of ruling Gaza, but are just backing Hamas out of necessity because they’re the only force opposing Israel 🇮🇱 on the ground; so, Israel 🇮🇱’s war in Gaza isn’t destroying Hamas, it’s actually strengthening it, by ensuring that more young Palestinians 🇵🇸 will be radicalized against them, and will join Hamas or other groups like Hamas. Not to mention the fact, he was also very racist, and helped normalize racism and white supremacy in this country once again. So, I gotta say is good riddance, and rest in piss.

I know some people will not like that I said that, well, too bad, this is my blog, and I can say whatever I want on it, so long as it follows Blogger’s guidelines, which it does. I’m not advocating violence of any kind, I’m expressing my honest opinion about the man that was killed last week, and who the White House chose to honor and fly the flags 🇺🇸 half staff; something that Trump refused to do for Jimmy Carter and had to be strong armed into doing, and something he refused to do for the two Democratic lawmakers that were shot and killed in Minnesota back in June 2024, State Representative Melissa Hortman and State Senator John Hoffman. And my honest opinion is that I don’t feel sorry for this guy ♂︎ that he got shot because he was a fascist and right-wing extremist who did way more harm to this country than good, and the country and the world as a whole is better off without him. Not only that, but he is a victim of a monster that he helped create, he helped normalize right-wing extremism and right-wing violence by celebrating it whenever it happens and mocking the victims of such extremist violence, and he helped normalize gun violence by saying that gun deaths are just the price we pay for having the Second Amendment, and having the Second Amendment and lax gun laws is worth any death that may come from them, even if those deaths are children in school; you know the next generation that the Right claims they care so much about. 

 

Political violence and gun deaths were okay in Charlie’s world, so long as they happened to other people, especially those who he didn’t like or thought were inferior to him in some way, whether it be liberals, leftists, black people, Latino people, Asian people, indigenous people, LGBTQ+ people 🏳️‍🌈, Muslims ☪️, and of course, women ♀︎; he was a sexist and a misogynist as well as being a flagrant racist; the fact that he was anti-abortion should tell you how misogynist he truly was. But, it did happen to him, and now he’s dead. The degree to which the mainstream media, and politicians on both sides, have tried to whitewash him and soften his image saying that he was a “conservative commentator who just had opinions they disagreed with” is truly despicable. Charlie Kirk was not merely some conservative who had differing opinions, he was a fascist, and he supported and was a member of a fascist movement that helped bring a fascist back into power, back to the White House. 

 

Don’t believe mainstream media when they call him a “conservative,” he wasn’t a conservative, MAGA 🇺🇸 is not a conservative movement, it is a far-right, fascist movement, and Charlie Kirk was a fascist, even if he claimed he wasn’t one in life. That’s why I referred to as “far-right” and not “conservative” because that’s what many mainstream media sources are doing, and what so many journalists like Ezra Klein (that clown 🤡, we can practically call him, “Ezra Clown 🤡” because that’s what he is, that piece he wrote on Charlie Kirk after his death proves that) and politicians, even Gavin Newsom are doing. It’s whitewashing, it’s rewriting history, and lying about who this man truly was in life, and it’s helping conservatives and right-wingers turn him into a martyr, which is what we don’t want. The fact that his killer was yet another right-wing extremist is not really surprise, like was anyone really that surprised when it was revealed that the shooter came from a conservative and right-wing background, and spend time in right-wing? Anyone who’s intellectually honest wouldn’t be. 

 

It’s also come to light that the killer was apart of the Groyper movement started by Nick Fuentes, another far-right commentator who is even further to the right than Charlie Kirk was (pretty much a Neo-Nazi), and was a bit of a rival of Charlie Kirk’s. If you’re unaware of who Nick Fuentes, he’s the guy ♂︎ who made headlines for dining with Trump and Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago back in 2022, and he’s the guy ♂︎ who went viral for saying “your body my choice” when Trump won the election 🗳️ in 2024; “your body my choice” is a misogynistic phrase meant to mock pro-choice people who say “my body my choice,” and also mock the MeToo movement, a movement designed to give sexual abuse, sexual assault and rape victims a voice and bring perpetrators to justice; so by Fuentes saying, “my body my choice,” he’s essentially saying that he not only doesn’t support abortion, a woman ♀︎’s right to an abortion, but he also doesn’t support women ♀︎’s right in general, and women ♀︎ should not have independence and their place is to be in home, cooking dinner, cleaning the house, raising the kids, and of course, giving men ♂︎ sex on command; he and others like him believe men are entitled to have sex with women ♀︎ whenever they want it, regardless of whether the women ♀︎ want it or not; the bottomline is that if Fuentes had his way, women ♀︎ would not be allowed to have any autonomy whatsoever, and wouldn’t be allowed their own decisions with their bodies, only men ♂︎ would be allowed to decide what to do with women ♀︎’s bodies. 

 

Nick Fuentes hated Charlie Kirk, called him a “fake conservative,” a “fake right-winger” because he supported Israel 🇮🇱 and operated mainly in the mainstream. Fuentes drew the line on Kirk’s support for Israel 🇮🇱 because Fuentes is an outspoken anti-Semite and believes only true right-wingers are anti-Semites and for any right-wing commentator to be considered “real MAGA 🇺🇸,” they have to be openly anti-Semitic and profess their hatred for Jews ✡️, and they cannot support Israel 🇮🇱  under any context, even if Israel 🇮🇱 is killing Arabs and Muslims ☪️, which Fuentes also hates. And Fuentes didn’t think Kirk was enough of an anti-semite and wasn’t far enough to the Right to be considered the real deal, and so he often mocked him and trolled him online. He even sent his supporters, who he calls Groypers to Kirk’s events to stir up trouble, and make Kirk look like an idiot; which wasn’t hard to do with Kirk, he was a very dumb individual with retrograde beliefs. And apparently, one of these Groypers took it a bit too far and decided to shoot Charlie Kirk in the head. 

 

When Kirk died, Fuentes went radio silent 🤐 except to put out a statement saying Kirk’s death was a tragedy and political violence isn’t the answer, something that is out of character for him as he streams every single day apparently, but on the day that his #1 rival was killed, he decided not to stream. This is likely because he doesn’t want people to trace the murder to him and his movement, and he doesn’t want to face the consequences for doing so. What this tells me is that there’s infighting within MAGA 🇺🇸, that they don’t all agree with each other, they don’t say the same talking points, and there is some dissension within the ranks. There are bitter rivalries, and some of these rivalries have the potential to spark violence in the real world, as we saw last Wednesday. And it’s really surprising that there are rivalries within MAGA 🇺🇸, these are big personalities and there are lot of egos involved, and some of these people have conflicting beliefs that are fundamentally incompatible with each other, there are things that they will not compromise on, even for the sake of defeating the Left and reshaping America 🇺🇸 into a fascist dictatorship. 

 

For Fuentes, that was antisemitism and the hatred for Jews ✡️, if you didn’t hate Jews ✡️ and weren’t outspoken about it like he is, then you were considered a phony to him, you were considered too mainstream, and you were a stooge to the Zionists or Jewish bankers ✡️, who he’s convinced his followers really rule the world. This is going to sound weird, but this kind of reminds me of the rivalry between Hemediti and Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, which has been the main driving force behind the current Sudanese civil war 🇸🇩, where they’re both evil individuals, and are not good for the country (in that case, Sudan 🇸🇩), except one is slightly worse than the other and the other is slightly more mainstream and seen as “acceptable.” In this comparison or analogy, Charlie Kirk would be al-Burhan and Nick Fuentes would be Hemediti. It also, of course, reminds me of the very public but brief feud on social media between Elon Musk and Steve Bannon, where they (and their supporters) got into a fight over HB-1 visas and whether those go against the idea of mass deportation. Long story short, Elon supported HB-1 visas while Bannon didn’t, and Elon ultimately came out on top since Trump backed his position, and then pretty much allowed Elon to be the shadow president for the first few months of his second term. That’s another reason why Bannon sees Trump as somewhat of a traitor.

 

It’s good that there’s infighting within MAGA 🇺🇸 because it means that they aren’t fully unified, and there are cracks within the movement. We just need to make sure that those cracks keep forming until the whole thing breaks apart, because if these cracks in the MAGA movement 🇺🇸 keep growing, and the movement just completely collapses in on itself due to infighting and these guys literally going out there and killing each other over stupid petty Internet squabbles 🛜 that the Left could care less about, then they will no longer be united, they will be divided. That will buy us more time to build a more cohesive and robust resistance movement, and we will be able to beat them and take back the country, and repair the damage that they have already done and will do in the future, so long as they are in power. 

 

I’m just surprised that, given how antisemitic and anti-Israel 🇮🇱 Nick Fuentes is, that he hasn’t turned on Trump for his continued and vocal support of Israel 🇮🇱 and Netanyahu. Although, I did see some comments on Kristofer Goldsmith’s video on the Groyper movement and the feud between Charlie Kirk and Nick Fuentes say that before the shooting, both Nick Fuentes and Steve Bannon were calling Trump “establishment” and a “traitor” to the MAGA movement 🇺🇸, not just because of the Israel thing 🇮🇱, but also because of the Epstein thing; the majority of MAGA 🇺🇸 really wants those files released, and they don’t like how Trump keeps hiding them, and stringing them along. All I got to say, Nick Fuentes better watch himself out there, because if he can’t careful, he could be the next target catching a bullet to the head. He’ll sure be hiding in his mother’s basement after this, he’ll never come out there. He’ll treat it like it’s his bunker. 

 

That’s not an insult at Fuentes and me trying to insult him or demean him, he actually does live with his parents, his parents are his safety net, they take care of him, they house him, they cloth him, they feed him, and he conducts his business inside of that basement. Fuentes adheres and conforms to the stereotype of the basement dwelling Neo Nazi incel. Although, there are some rumors, rumors mind you, that Fuentes may be a closeted homosexual ⚣ because of how performatively anti-gay ⚣ he is, how performatively anti-trans 🏳️‍⚧️ he is, and how much performatively straight he tries to be, and it’s based on this belief that the more vocal Republicans about how anti-gay ⚣ and anti-LGBT 🏳️‍🌈 they are, the more performative their hatred is, the more likely it is that they’re gay or LGBT 🏳️‍🌈 themselves; they’re just in closeted and self-hating. A belief that is backed by years of evidence, because there have been several gay Republicans and pastors ⚣, closeted self-hating gay Republicans and pastors ⚣, who in public are homophobic, but in private, engage in homosexual activity ⚣. 

 

During the 2024 Republican National Convention (RNC), the gay dating app ⚣, Grindr was offline because so many people were using it that day, there was more activity on Grindr on that day than on any other day of the year, and all the activity was taking place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the event was taking place. It didn’t take much deduction to figure that all that increased activity on Grindr was coming from Republicans attending the RNC, and using that app to hook up, meet some handsome men ♂︎ (possibly male prostitutes/escorts ♂︎) to have sex on the side in-between the event, in their hotel rooms. Because they’re just that in the closet, they don’t get have sex with men ♂︎ all the time, and they saw the RNC as their opportunity to have some, so they would use the Grindr app to meet with some guys ♂︎ and have sex, to get their fix, to finally fuck a dude ♂︎ or be fucked like they always wanted, and don’t always get to do because they’re Republicans and they’re supposed to hate gays ⚣ and trans people 🏳️‍⚧️. 

 

So, many people think that about Nick Fuentes, that despite him talking about how much he hates LGBT people 🏳️‍🌈, how much he hates gay men ⚣♂︎ specifically, and how insistent he is that love ❤️ should only be between a man ♂︎ and a woman ♀︎, and that he himself is straight ⚤, he’s actually gay himself ⚣. I’m not a subscriber of that belief, I don’t know enough about Nick Fuentes beyond what I’ve heard about him, and what short clips from his streams I’ve seen, but if that did turn out to be the case, I wouldn’t be surprised because of the long history of homophobes revealed to be closeted homosexuals ⚣ themselves. It’s a cliché and a stereotype at this point, but it’s one that’s definitely based in reality; just like the one about the basement dwelling Neo Nazi incel. 

 

There’s the phenomenon of Groypers and other far-right individuals dating trans people 🏳️‍⚧️, usually trans women 🏳️‍⚧️, because they’re so misogynistic, they hate women ♀︎ so much that they’d rather date a trans woman 🏳️‍⚧️ than a biological woman ♀︎. Many Groypers and far-right individuals also consume transgender porn 🏳️‍⚧️🔞, that’s their favorite genre that they look to search for and look up on their adult website 🔞 of choice. It’s why you sometimes hear far-right people talk about “femboys ♂︎” and “newhalves,” “futas,” and also “shemales ⚧” in the forums and chat rooms 💬 they frequently; although I would argue that futanari is not the same thing as transgender 🏳️‍⚧️, since most futas in futa porn 🔞 are biological women ♀︎, it’s just that they have a penis; also “femboys ♂︎” tend to be more of an explicitly gay thing ⚣ rather than transgender 🏳️‍⚧️, but there’s some overlap. I’m really skirting the lines of Blogger’s community guidelines with this section, aren’t I? But, I’m not saying anything explicit, I’m not showing any images, and I’m mentioning any sites by name or linking them. So, they shouldn’t age restrict this post. They age restricted my Armageddon ☄️ review for very little reason, even after I removed all the parts that could be considered inappropriate, so I don’t know. I hope not, but we’ll see what happens when this goes up.

And if that wasn’t enough, if it wasn’t enough to have my Internet 🛜 be turned off, I was also sick for the last week 🤧. I’m just barely starting to feel better, I’m still coughing, my nose 👃 is still stuffy, but it’s not like it was last week. But, even last week, I would say the cold 🦠 I had last week wasn’t as bad as the one had I back in the spring 🍃, the one I had when I finished that Wylde Pak post, and then wrote that update; I wrote the update on Thursday March 10, 2025, and then I didn’t end up posting the entire post until Sunday March 16, 2025, and it took so long to post that because I wasn’t feeling good, that cold 🦠 I had back in March kicked my ass. But, this one wasn’t as bad. It did help that I already started taking that Airborne supplement before I really started showing symptoms 🤧; before my nose 👃 started really getting bad, and my chest got congested and I started coughing up phlegm. Currently, I’m taking some Mucinex, that maximum strength one, the one called Fast-Max and DM Max. My aunt for me, she’s a wonderful person, she does so much for us, does so much for me, and all out of the kindness of her heart. She bought me the liquid one, which was surprising to me, I was expecting her to buy me pills 💊 because every time I’ve taken Mucinex, it’s always been in pill form 💊. 

 

But, regardless of it being in liquid form, it is working so far, I haven’t been coughing as much, and I haven’t had to blow my nose 🤧 as often as I did for the past few days. For me, it’s a bit challenging sometimes, because I live in New Mexico, and we here in New Mexico like to eat spicy food 🌶️, we eat a lot of food that has chili 🌶️ in it, and me, because of my genetics 🧬 (the genes 🧬 inherited from my mother), spicy foods 🌶️, make my nose run 🤧. So, you can imagine that when I’ve recovering from a cold 🦠, and I’m trying to get sinuses to calm down and the mucus inside my nose 👃 to loosen and thin, it can be a problem, and it has been, like last night. Last night, we had chicken salad sandwiches for dinner, and I had Flamin’ Hot Lays with it (because you gotta have chips with your sandwich), and it made my nose 👃 run, I started coughing. But dammit, I want to live my life, and eat the things I want to eat, and I like spicy foods 🌶️, I like eating things with a kick to them; no bland food for me. 

 

I will keep taking Mucinex until it’s all gone, when the bottle is empty. I hope by next week, I’m completely over this, because I hate being sick; not that anyone likes being sick; even kids who get sick 🤧🤒, don’t like getting sick 🤧🤒, they only like it so far as they can get out of school and stay home (I can personally attest to this), but they don’t actually like the feeling of being sick 🤧🤒, having a fever 🤒, blowing your nose 🤧, not being able to breathe your nose 👃, your nose 👃 getting raw from wiping it so much, not being able to hear as well because you’re so congested that it kind of plugs up your ears 👂 a little bit, coughing, coughing up phlegm, aching, being weak and fatigued 🫩, or if it’s more of a stomach bug 🦠, throwing up 🤮 or having diarrhea. To get away from the gross stuff for a moment, after I post this review (whenever I actually finish it), I will watch Fight or Flight ✈️ and start working on the review for that. That’s the next review, guaranteed, Fight or Flight ✈️, an action movie set on a plane ✈️ (obviously, otherwise it wouldn’t be called Fight or Flight ✈️), starring Josh Hartnett, and from the producers of John Wick, so yet another movie that’s tangentially connected to the John Wick franchise by way of the people who made it.  

 

Bullet Train 🚅🇯🇵 was also connected to the John Wick franchise because it was directed by David Leitch (who also directed Deadpool 2), who was a producer on John Wick and a producer on this movie, and many people, when the trailer to that movie came out, were comparing it to Bullet Train 🚅, saying that it was “Bullet Train 🚅🇯🇵 on a Plane ✈️.” And even though I haven’t seen it yet, Fight or Flight ✈️ does look a lot like Bullet Train 🚅🇯🇵, but on a plane ✈️ instead of a bullet train 🚅🚄. It looks like it has a very similar plot: a reluctant assassin (or mercenary) who wants out of the game, gets sent on a mission that he doesn’t want to do by his boss (his handler), and he ends up in some type of transportation (in Bullet Train 🚅🇯🇵’s case, a bullet train 🚅🚄, and in Fight or Flight ✈️’s case, a plane ✈️), that’s like an enclosed space, and is full of other assassins (other mercenaries) who are after the same thing he’s after and he has to kill all of them in order to achieve his goal; to accomplish the mission. 

 

Only difference, besides the type of transportation, is that in Bullet Train 🚅🇯🇵, the reluctant assassin, who’s named Ladybug 🐞, ended up teaming up with some of the other assassins that were on that train 🚅 (Lemon 🍋 and Tangerine 🍊), and those two yakuza members (the Father and the Elder), by the end of the movie to take down a greater threat, those Russian mobsters 🇷🇺 led by the White Death, while in Fight or Flight ✈️, it doesn’t seem like the reluctant assassin (Josh Hartnett’s character) allies with anyone on that plane ✈️ except those two flight attendants we see in the trailer, but none of the assassins. All the assassins on that plane ✈️ are his enemies, and it seems like he kills as many of them as he can. 

 

I still want to see a sequel to Bullet Train 🚅🇯🇵, and I want it to be called Bullet Train 2: Stateside 🚅🇺🇸, since supposedly there have been effort to built a bullet train 🚅🚄 here in America 🇺🇸, this company wanted to do that, but I don’t know if that’s still happening, considering Trump is in the White House (again). But if it is, and America 🇺🇸 does get a bullet train 🚅🚄, and if Bullet Train 🚅🇯🇵 sequel really has to get made, then I’d like to see it take place in America 🇺🇸 and be called Bullet Train 2: Stateside 🚅🇺🇸. I honestly don’t know if there will ever be a sequel to Bullet Train 🚅🇯🇵 because movie only grossed $239.3 million 💵 at the worldwide box office against a budget of $85.9 million-$90 million 💵. While that may sound good at first (to a layman who doesn’t know how box office numbers work), for a movie like that, that’s only the production budget (Wikipedia usually only lists the production budgets on these things), when you factor in marketing and distribution costs, the budget could way higher than that, in which case, $239.3 million 💵 may not be a good box office take. The fact that it’s been 3 years, we still haven’t gotten a sequel to Bullet Train 🚅🇯🇵, and no announcement that they’re making a sequel or thinking of making one, makes me think that one is not in the cards 🤷‍♂️. 

 

I’m not sure if I’m still going to review the Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius console game. I’ve watched half of LongplayArchive’s latest longplay of the game (it’s a redo of the one they did 6 years ago on the GameCube; and it’s in full HD), and I haven’t gone back to it because I can’t decide whether or not, I want to review it or not. If I do decide to review it, then I’ll have to pay attention when I watch that longplay, but if I don’t, then I can just have it playing in the background while I’m making my bed 🛏️, like I do with other videos. Whatever I decide, you’ll know if you see a post that says “My Thoughts on Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (Console Game).” 

One thing I’d like to say about this movie, Nobody (2021), before I actually started talking about it is that I knew quite a lot about it before I even saw it, just from watching reaction videos of it on YouTube that various movie reaction channels would do to it. I knew the basic plot, that it was about this seemingly ordinary suburban (white) dad named Hutch Mansell, who faces a home invasion, and then everyone questions his masculinity ♂︎ for not beating up the robbers that invaded his home, and then he goes out to retrieve his daughter’s kitty-cat bracelet 🐱 after she says she can’t find it; after it seemingly disappears the day after the home invasion. He goes to the robbers’ house (the same ones that attacked his home the first), and it turns out that they don’t have the bracelet and they were just a desperate couple with a baby to look after, and he had just done what they had done to him: invade their home, point a gun in their faces, and traumatize them. The only difference is that his gun was loaded, and theirs wasn’t, and he actually ready to injure or kill them if they didn’t give him his daughter’s bracelet back (which he immediately thinks they stole). 

 

So, he leaves in shame, and anger 😡, that he attacked that couple for no reason, and then he’s going back home on the bus 🚌, these drunk assholes 🥴 board the bus 🚌, and he decides to use this opportunity to take his anger 😡 out on them, and get his fix for violence. So, he beats them all up, sends them to the hospital 🏥, gets his adrenaline rush, and goes back to his daily life, only this time, he’s been reinvigorated, and he tries to reconnect with his wife and his kids, who had become estranged from, especially after the incident with the home invasion. But, it turns out these drunk guys 🥴♂︎ he beat up were apart of the Russian mafia 🇷🇺, or at least two of them were, and by beating them to death, he incurred the wrath of one of the guys’ ♂︎ uncle, Yulian Kuznetsov, who is an important figure within the Russian mob 🇷🇺, guarding the Obshchak, a common treasury for the Russian mob 🇷🇺 used primarily to settle disputes. 

 

So, Yulian, being understandably upset that his nephew was beat up by a seeming nobody (see what I did there 😏?), uses all the men ♂︎ and resources at his disposal to find this guy ♂︎ and kill him; make an example out of him to show anyone who may have ideas about challenging the Russian mob 🇷🇺, you do not mess with the Russian mob 🇷🇺; if you do mess with the Russian mob 🇷🇺, they will not only kill you, but also kill your entire family, down to the youngest child. So, Hutch, by trying to get his fix of violence again and reclaim his masculinity, boost his adrenaline and testosterone, and reconnect with his family, put his whole family in danger of getting killed by the Russian mafia 🇷🇺. But, it’s okay because Hutch used to be an assassin, working for a super secret program in the United States Intelligence Community 🇺🇸, the “Nobody” program. 

 

That’s why he’s so good at fighting and shooting guns, and why he wanted to get violent with those robbers when he thought they stole his daughter’s kitty cat bracelet 🐱. He’s been out of the game for so long, he’s been living a civilian life for so long, that he was started to get tired of it, he got bored of the same ol’ route every single day, and he wanted to get back in the game. He wanted to fight somebody or beat somebody up because he’s that addicted to the violence, he needed to let it all out, he needed his fix; the kitty-cat bracelet 🐱 was just his excuse. So, because of his history as an assassin, as well as his dad and brother’s histories as assassins (in the same program), they’re more than a match for these Russian mobsters 🇷🇺, and in fact, they outclass them in pretty much every way. 

I knew most of that from watching reaction videos to this movie, I just didn’t know all of the details. Like, I didn’t know what the main Russian boss 🇷🇺 in the movie, Yulian did, what his actual role in the Russian mob 🇷🇺 was, and I didn’t know what the deal with that money 💵 was, the money 💵 that Hutch burns down 🔥, and I didn’t know what Hutch’s relationship with his wife is, if they were living together or if they were living in separate houses, or where that room with all the vinyl records and that radio 📻 that he uses to talk to his brother, Harry, who we don’t even see until the very end. But, now I know all those details, I can tell them to my grandma while she’s watching the movie if she asks any questions. Not that there’s anything in this movie that’s particularly hard to grasp for your average movie goer, your average audience member. 

 

It does have a pretty simple plot, it might’ve seemed complicated, from how I was describing it, but it’s really not. It’s pretty simple and easy. Which, isn’t a problem considering that this movie is only 92 minutes long (1 hour and 32 minutes), movies that length don’t need to be super complicated, in fact, it’s better if they aren’t. It would’ve been kind of funny if the movie was as 1 hour and 43 minutes long (103 minutes long), which is the exact time that Huell gives when he shows up in court to testify against Chuck in the “Chicanery” episode of Better Call Saul. It would’ve been a neat little reference to Better Call Saul that only the most attentive fans would notice, since you know, Bob Odenkirk is in Better Call Saul, he’s the titular Saul Goodman AKA Jimmy McGill. But, whatever, you can’t control how long your movie, what runtime it ends up having, it ends up having, once they left in a deleted scene or too to get the runtime to 103 minutes (1 hour and 43 minutes).

As you can probably guess, I didn’t see this movie when it originally came out, in fact, I didn’t have any interest in it all. It occupied much the same head space that the movie, Novocaine (2025) currently does, although I am slightly more interested in Novocaine (2025) than I was of this movie when it came out in 2021. Novocaine (2025) still isn’t at the top of my list of movies I watch, but I wouldn’t be opposed to watching it. It wasn’t until I started watching these reaction videos to the movie on YouTube that I actually became interested in watching it, and it really was that scene in the nursing home where Hitch’s dad, David (Christopher Lloyd) kills those two Russian mob hitmen 🇷🇺 sent to kill him by shooting them with a shotgun. They play that song, “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong, and when it gets to the nursing home, and those two Russian hitmen 🇷🇺 are about to shoot David in his sleep 😴, and just when one of them gets ready to pull the trigger, David opens his eyes and wakes up, grabs the hitman’s gun, stops the hammer in its place, then pulls out a shotgun he was hiding underneath his blanket and shoots both of them, killing one of them instantly, and the other dies slowly from their wounds, as David covers their mouth to keep the nurse from hearing him. That’s the scene that made this movie as must watch for me. There’s something so funny and so badass about an old guy ♂︎ in a nursing home, killing two mob hitmen with a shotgun while having a gleeful smile 😁 on his face; getting the chance to do this after so many years, being in retirement, and as David himself says just before the final shootout, “But goddammit, if I didn’t miss this shit.” And that scene, in the nursing home, is just as funny and badass in the movie with context as it was out of context. 

When you first see David, and you talks to Hutch about what he’s about to do, you get an indication that he knew about his prior business, but you don’t know to what extent. Then, later on, when Hutch learns David that the Russian mob 🇷🇺 are coming after him, and to be on the lookout, you don’t know if David can even defend himself, being at his old age, and you get kind of worried for him. Then, that scene comes on, and you see that he’s more than capable of defending himself, and not only that, not only does he know about Hutch’s prior business as a government assassin, but he was apart of it, he was an assassin too, and like all those comments you see on videos with old badasses always like to say, “never underestimate old men ♂︎ in a profession where men ♂︎ die young” or something like that. 

 

David definitely embodies that sentiment, the old man ♂︎ who was in a profession where men ♂︎ typically die young, and is more badass and deadly because of that. And then we see him kicking ass in the final shootout scene in that warehouse that Hutch bought from his father-in-law, Eddie Williams, who is played by Michael Ironside, using some gold he stashed away for safe keeping. I’m genuinely surprised at how many people didn’t realize that was Michael Ironside, but I can sort of get it because he’s pretty unrecognizable from how he looked in the 1980s and 1990s, you know? Because he’s old. Even his voice isn’t that recognizable anymore, again, mostly due to old age. But, I was able to recognize, and it’s cool that he was in this movie. An iconic actor with an awesome voice, who mostly played villains in his illustrious career, getting to have a supporting role in this. And Christopher Lloyd is pretty good in this movie too as Hutch’s dad, David Mansell. 

 

As many have pointed out, it is clear while watching the movie that he was having a blast making this, because he got to cut loose with this role, and do some cool action. You know, Christopher Lloyd hadn’t done action before, he was mostly a comedian for most of his career, and this was his opportunity to do action, and he made the most of it. It’s kind of like Wilford Brimley in Hard Target, as Chris Bumbray pointed out in his review of that movie, where he was an actor who didn’t get to do any action for most of his career, he didn’t get to be a badass, but when was finally cast in an action movie and got to play an older badass, he made the most of it, and had the time of his life. Only, Wilford Brimley was far younger when he did Hard Target than Christopher Lloyd was when he did Nobody (2021). But, Wilford Brimley had that old guy ♂︎ look, so even though he was 59 when he did Hard Target, he still could believably play a senior citizen; I mean, he played a senior citizen in Cocoon (1985) and he was 51 when he did that, barely even older than my dad is right now. And David comes away from this movie probably being my favorite character. 

 

That man ♂︎ sure loves his shotguns, since that’s pretty much the only weapon we see him using in the entire movie when he actually does start kicking ass with Hutch and Harry, unless you count those grenades he left hanging from the ceiling as a booby trap for those Russian mobsters 🇷🇺 that he then shoots down with one of his shotguns and blows them all up; but not before saying, “До свидания” (Romanized as “dasvidaniya”), which means “goodbye” in Russian 🇷🇺. RZA’s pretty good in the movie too as Hutch’s adopted brother, Harry Mansell. His scenes in the movie were cool, like during the final shootout when he takes out three Russian mobsters 🇷🇺 with a single shot from his sniper rifle, and then gets into a fight with another Russian mobster 🇷🇺, throws him onto the floor of this office, gets him tangled up in barbed wire, then launches him into the air using one of Hutch’s booby traps. Also, it was cool to see the actor from the Paul W.S. Anderson/Milla Jovovich Resident Evil movies and the first Alien vs. Predator movie, Colin Salmon in a supporting role in this movie, as the Barber, Hutch’s former handler who now now works as a barber 💈 and tells him all about Yulian and the Obshchak. I have written a review of Alien vs. Predator (2004) if you’re interested in that reading that. 

If you couldn’t already tell from what I’ve said so far, I liked this movie, I really liked it. I wish that I had given it a chance when it came out back in 2021, if not seeing it in theaters, at least watching it when it went on digital, and watched a lot sooner, because this is one of the best action movies I’ve seen in the past few years. I wouldn’t mind watching this movie again, and this is kind of a litmus test for me for how much I like a particular movie, like do I want to watch this again or not? Like with Mutafukaz (MFKZ), that was a movie that I saw a while back, long before I ever had this blog, and before I reviewed every movie that I saw, I thought it was okay, but it was a movie that I had no interest in watching again. If you don’t know what MFKZ is, it’s an animated movie, an adult animated movie to be more precise, that was made by a French and Japanese studio 🇫🇷🇯🇵; the French studio 🇫🇷 in question was Ankama Animations and the Japanese studio 🇯🇵 in question was Studio 4ºC. So, it was a French and Japanese co-production 🇫🇷🇯🇵. It was based on a French comic book series 🇫🇷 (which would be published in the US 🇺🇸 by Sumerian Comics, in conjunction with the film’s release), and a short film which was an adaptation of that comic book series. When the movie was released in the US 🇺🇸 (by GKIDS on physical media and Hulu on streaming), it received an R rating. 

 

But, despite being made by French and Japanese people 🇫🇷🇯🇵, it actually takes place in the United States 🇺🇸 and is set in a fictional city heavily based on LA called Dark Meat City (DMC). The best way to describe this movie is that it’s what happens when a bunch of French guys 🇫🇷♂︎ and Japanese guys 🇯🇵♂︎ come together to try to make a hood movie. It tries to be a science fiction movie in the vein of They Live (the 1988 John Carpenter film about aliens 👽 that successfully infiltrated human society and control everything) and combine it with a hood movie, like it takes place in a city that’s heavily based on LA, it deals a lot with “urban culture” and black culture, the main character, Angelino, who is a human/alien hybrid 👽, is voiced by a black voice actor in the English dub, and it features gangs, most of whom are black; the black gangs are the ones that save the day, since they not only save Angelino and his friend, Vinz (who is literally a skeleton with a flaming skull 💀 🔥 for a head like Ghost Rider 🔥) on one occasion, but they also kill the main bad guy, who is this MIB agent with a gold revolver; yes, the Men in Black are in this movie, and no, they’re not like the Men in Black from the Men in Black movies, they’re more like the conspiracy theory version of the Men in Black, where they themselves are aliens 👽; the only one who aren’t the two main MIB agents, Bruce Macchabée (the one in the white suit, wielding a gold magnum revolver) and Randy Crocodile 🐊 (yes, that his actual name, and no, he’s not an actual crocodile 🐊 sadly); and they’re portrayed as stereotypically as you think they would given that this was made by French and Japanese people 🇫🇷🇯🇵, who have little knowledge or understanding of the culture, and who never lived in the city or in the hood their entire lives. 

 

Besides the ice cream truck chase and the music that accompanies it, and some of the bloody and gory kills 🩸, this movie really didn’t appeal to me at all. It wasn’t my cup of tea ☕️, and I’m glad that I wasn’t the only one who felt that way about the movie since it mostly got negative reviews, with it currently holding a 39% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes 🍅 according to Wikipedia, so a lot of critics definitely didn’t like it. As one review that I saw of this movie said, “ it is style over substance,” it’s a movie that looks nice, that’s extremely well animated (I mean, it animated by 4ºC, of course it’s going to look good), but doesn’t have anything going for it; it seriously lacks in story and characters, and sort of comes across as racist and ignorant with how it goes about portraying this city and portraying the hood; the people who made this didn’t have a full understanding of the culture they were representing on screen, and that’s why it still ultimately feels like it came from an outsider perspective, an outside perspective that had very surface level understanding of these sorts of things; who had a surface level understanding of LA, and of the hood. 

 

It also feels like the kind of movie that’s trying to have cult status, like it’s trying to appeal to a niche audience and have this weird premise, have all this bloody and gory violence 🩸, and have these weird characters that juxtapose with the regular humans in the movie; like Angelino and his friends, none of them are human, or fully human, Angelino’s a human/alien hybrid 👽, Vinz is a skeleton man ♂︎ with a flaming skull 💀🔥 for a head, and Willy (the worst character in the movie) is a fruitbat 🦇 who can’t fly, and no one ever call it out, no one ever acknowledges it or addresses it, you’re just expected to go along with it like in Regular Show; the only one that’s actually plot relevant is Angelino being an alien hybrid 👽 and that’s about it; no one ever addresses Vinz being a walking talking skeleton with a flaming skull 💀🔥 for a head, or Willy being a talking flightless fruitbat 🦇. That’s the kind of stuff that makes me think that was made with a cult audience in mind, like they did all that so that the movie would get a following, even if it wasn’t a financial success or a critical success, and even if it got negative reviews from critics, or even because it got negative reviews from critics. But it never quite achieved it because this movie really doesn’t have much of a cult following at all. It’s kind of too obscure to have a cult following, and it comes across trying too hard, and cult movies that are try hards, that try to artificially gain that sort of audience, that sort of following, usually never do. And I haven’t rewatched it since. 

 

I just haven’t had a desire to go back it, which is exactly how I feel about some other movies I watched around the same time like The East 🇳🇱🇮🇩 (2020), Yakuza Princess, The Wonderland, and even Patema Inverted to a certain extent. And of course, The French Dispatch 🇫🇷, I despise that movie, I never want to watch it again 😤. Even Boy Kills World, as much as I liked that movie and gave it a positive review, it doesn’t have rewatch value for me, mostly because of its lack of lore and world building, and because of the story and the characters, and it’s also kind of a “style over substance” movie that made to have cool action, have some dark humor (tell some jokes in between the action), and not much else. The only part of that movie, MFKZ, that I go back is the ice cream truck chase, and most of that is because of the music that plays during that scene. Oh, and I liked Carnage Counts’s video on the movie, I watch that too sometimes, on occasion.

But, Nobody (2021) passes the sniff test, it does have rewatchability for me. I could see it becoming a comfort movie, sort of like Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre and The Beekeeper 🐝; both of which star Jason Statham, but that’s mostly a coincidence; I like Jason Statham, what can I say? But those two movies are extremely fun in their own right and have a lot of rewatch value, at least for me. But, those aren’t the only recent movies that have rewatch value for me, it isn’t just Jason Statham movies, I also like Bad Boys: Ride or Die and Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and I have rewatched both of them. I rewatched Bad Boys: Ride or Die pretty recently, last week, and it still holds up, I still like it a lot; it’s probably the best thing that Will Smith has done in his career so far post-slap 👋.  As much as people like to make fun of Will Smith and how his career is going right now (and trust me, there is plenty to make fun of), Martin Lawrence hasn’t exactly been hitting home runs either since being in Bad Boys: Ride or Die. 

 

I mean, he was in Sneaks 👟, an animated movie about talking shoes 👟 (in fact, he voiced one of the shoes 👟), that was mocked online for its ridiculous bottom of the barrel premise (and the perception that it was ripping off Pixar because of it having a high concept premise and being about inanimate objects coming to life and talking), and then subsequently came and went, with very little fanfare; it bombed at the box office 💣, making only $1.3 million 💵 worldwide (its budget is currently unknown). But not before getting panned by critics upon its release, with a measly 29% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes 🍅. I bet that movie will do great at the Razzies. At least Will Smith can say that he wasn’t in Sneaks 👟. 

 

Though, Martin Lawrence’s decision to be in Sneaks 👟 might’ve been informed by his role as Marcus Burnett in Bad Boys: Ride or Die. Throughout that movie, Marcus talks about how him and Mike Lowrey (Will Smith’s character) have been friends for a millennia and they’ve been reincarnated multiple times, as a result of the near death experience he had at the beginning of the movie (it causes him to have a bit of a spiritual awakening, and he starts talking more spiritual than he did before as well as becoming more risk tolerant and living more dangerously because “it isn’t his time”), and he says that one of Mike’s past lives was a donkey 🫏. So, Marcus keeps referring to Mike as a donkey 🫏 throughout the movie, from the moment it’s first brought up, when they get onto that Chinook helicopter as part of Armando’s transfer to Miami (which fails because of McGrath’s sabotage). 

 

Well, in the end, there’s a moment where Marcus says that in their next life, Mike will be reincarnated as a pair of shoes 👟, and he will wear those shoes 👟 and not wear any socks 🧦 and will step in all kinds of stuff; he’s saying this to him because he’s mad at him 😡 for shooting at him to kill the bad guy, James McGrath; he just hit him his bulletproof vest, so he wasn’t really hurt, I mean he was hurt from the alligator bite 🐊 on his arm, but not from the gunshot (I mean, it hurt, getting shot still hurts even when you have a bulletproof vest, but didn’t significantly injury him where it’d be life threatening; he more than likely just broke one of his ribs, because a gunshot can do that to you if you get shot in the chest while wearing a bulletproof vest). 

 

It’s a moment that’s very similar to the beginning of Bad Boys II, where Mike and Marcus get into a gunfight with this Ku Klux Klan chapter after infiltrating their group (by disguising themselves as KKK members, white robes all) and trying to bust them for drug smuggling (specifically, smuggling ecstasy from Cuba 🇨🇺 created by Johnny Tapia and his criminal organization into the United States 🇺🇸) since they were leading the new TNT (Tactical Narcotics Team) for the Miami PD, and there’s a moment during that gunfight, where Mike shoots Marcus in his ass, in an attempt to shoot a KKK member with a shotgun; like the bullet goes through Marcus’s ass (like, it goes through his ass cheek) and then hits the shotgun wielding Klansman in the neck, killing him instantly. And then, Marcus is mad at him 😡 for shooting him in the ass for the rest of the movie, mostly because getting shot in the ass gives him erectile dysfunction; something that isn’t resolved until after Marcus accidentally takes some ecstasy (during the drug search in the mortuary), and he comes off of his high (sobers up) and instantly gets an erection and immediately wants to go fuck his wife. 

 

That moment in this movie with gunshot in the chest is sort meant to be a homage to that, in fact you could say this whole movie is a homage to Bad Boys II, just like how Bad Boys for Life was a homage to Bad Boys. Even the way they’re structured is similar, Bad Boys for Life is like Bad Boys where it’s more focused on drama and comedy than action, while Bad Boys: Ride or Die is like Bad Boys II where it’s way more focused on action, has a bigger budget than the previous movie, and just ramps everything up from the previous movie and goes above and beyond what the previous movie did. It makes sense why they’re structured like that because there hadn’t been a Bad Boys movie in 17 years by the time Bad Boys for Life came out, and it was meant to get us reacquainted with the characters, all of the returning characters, as well as introduce new characters and set up plot threads that could be expanded upon later on. 

 

But with Bad Boys: Ride or Die, we were ready to rock, and that’s why I prefer Ride or Die to For Life; I know some people like For Life better, and I respect that, everyone has their preference; I mean, I also like Bad Boys II over Bad Boys, I guess when it comes to this franchise in particular, I prefer the second installments because they tend to have way more action, and that’s mainly what I come to these movies to see; the two of the coolest action scenes in the movie don’t involve Mike or Marcus at all, they involve other characters like Armando and Reggie, who sort of represent the next generation of the Bad Boys. So, in a way, Martin Lawrence unknowingly foreshadowed himself being in Sneaks 👟, voicing a pair of shoes 👟.

I do plan on rewatching Nobody (2021) with my grandma because she hasn’t seen it yet because she’s so focused on her sewing 🧵 (to make extra money 💵), fulfilling orders, and when she does have free time, she just spends most of it watching her favorite shows, usually Law & Order, or 20/20, or some other crime shows (like true crime). Most recently, she’s been watching The Good Wife, which is a political legal drama starring that one actress who played one of the flight attendants in Snakes on a Plane 🐍✈️, Julianna Margulies; that’s the actress’s name, not the character’s. The Good Wife isn’t airing anymore, meaning it’s not producing any new episodes, it started airing in 2009 and then it ended in 2016, it went on for 7 years, and in that time, it had 7 seasons and 156 episodes, all of which were about 40-46 minutes long each. My grandma’s been watching that show almost nonstop for the past week, pretty much binge watching the whole thing, staying up pretty late some night watching episodes, staying up later than even I usually do at 2 in the morning. 

 

So, she hasn’t made any time to watch Nobody (2021) with me, which is why I made the initiative to watch it myself for this review…that’s taking me way longer to write than I initially anticipated; that’s what happens when I go off on endless tangents and go into in-depth explanations of different things that don’t always have anything to do with the topic at hand. That there’s anything wrong that, there’s nothing with watching an older show, I mean how many people do you hear nowadays say that they barely watched Avatar: The Last Airbender 💨 for the first time, or watched Game of Thrones, or watched Breaking Bad, or watched Better Call Saul, to bring this back around, and make it somewhat related to the topic at hand; since you know, Bob Odenkirk is in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. 

 

But, when my grandma is able to make time to watch this movie, I will be more than happy to watch it again with her. I think she’ll like it, it has the right amount of action, the right balance between action and talkie scenes, where she won’t get overwhelmed or exhausted. Like, she didn’t like the third John Wick movie, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum because she thought it had too fighting in it, and not enough story I guess. All she said was that it had too much fighting. So, whenever we watch action movies together, I’m always conscious about the amount of action in the movie, the amount of fighting in the movie, and I’m always wondering if she thinks it’s too much or not. Well, after watching this movie, I can confidently say that it has the right amount of action, it has the right amount of fights, and my grandma should like it. I’d be pretty shocked if she didn’t like it 😧. 

This is a John Wick or Equalizer type movie, in fact, this movie does have a similar plot to The Equalizer (2014), where it’s about a former assassin who’s trying to live a normal life, until something bring him back in and he ends up having to kill again, and that puts him at conflict with the Russian mob 🇷🇺; specifically, with this one Russian boss 🇷🇺 (or Russian enforcer 🇷🇺 in the case of The Equalizer) that all of his former colleagues and his former handler(s) tell him not to mess with because he’s that dangerous, but he chooses to go after anyway, and ends up proving them all wrong by killing him and destroying his entire organization; singlehandedly taking down the Russian mafia 🇷🇺. The only difference between this and The Equalizer (2014) and John Wick, is that whereas Robert McCall and John Wick didn’t want to return to their lives of killing, and did actually desire normal lives free from all that, and they came back in to avenge the death of someone they cared about (in the case of John Wick), or right some wrongs that they couldn’t stand idly by (in the case of Robert McCall), Hutch actually wants to return to the life as an assassin, he wants to kill again. 

 

He got tired of the suburban life, not bored of it, and wanted some action again, especially after the home invasion and everyone started questioning his masculinity ♂︎ and shaming him for not doing more to stop the robbers, and for him, it’s kind of like an addiction. He’s addicted to the violence, he’s addicted to the thrill of battle and the rush that comes with the feeling of being alive after a good battle; that’s an exact quote from Sergei Vladimir in Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles BTW, for all you eagle eyed Resident Evil fans out there 👀. And he relapses, and that puts him at odds with the Russian mob 🇷🇺, and with Yulian specifically, because he attacked one of their own (Yulian’s brother in fact) unprovoked and they want revenge. So, in a way, you could say that this is still a revenge movie, except that it’s not the hero who’s out for revenge, it’s the villain. 

 

That’s what makes this movie unique and what makes Hutch unique as an action movie protagonist, the fact he’s a guy ♂︎ that likes being an assassin, and does want to kill people, so long as they’re bad guys. And judging by the way the movie, it seems like the US government 🇺🇸 liked his performance enough to rehire him and make him an assassin working for the Intelligence Community once again, and he gladly accepts; he’s glad to be back in the game by the end of the movie. We’ve seen the reluctant hero (who wants out, but always ends up getting pulled back in) and the revenge story numerous times now, especially ever John Wick which really popularized the “revenge movie” subgenre (I guess we can call it), which is where so many movies that tried to copy John Wick and were that same ol’ revenge story.  

 

Monkey Man 🐒🇮🇳 was very similar to John Wick, only it’s set in India 🇮🇳, and heavily deals with the Indian caste system 🇮🇳, and Boy Kills World was also very similar to John Wick, only it was even more hyper stylized and it focused on a tall deaf guy ♂︎ and leaned a lot more heavily on comedy and cartoonish antics; dark comedy, but still comedy. I mean, Boy Kills World is so cartoonish that they literally got a guy ♂︎ who normally does voice work for adult animated shows (Bob’s Burgers 🍔 and Archer) to do the narration for the movie and be the main character, Boy’s inner voice. Both of those movies were released in the same year, 2024, or I guess Boy Kills World technically came out in 2023, where it premiered at a film festival, but it didn’t get a wide release until April 2024. Even The Beekeeper 🐝, as much as I like that movie, was essentially a revenge story in the vein of John Wick, it was yet another action movie that took after John Wick in some way. We need more action movies where the action hero actually likes being a killer and likes killing. 

 

Judging by the trailer, and what I’ve heard from the few reviews that I’ve seen of it, Nobody 2 seems like it kind of walks back some of that character development with Hutch, where now, he’s tired of being assassin, he got tired of that route, and decide to take his family on a vacation to this amusement park that he used to go to as a child, but is now all old and run down and run by criminals, or crooked cops, or a corrupt sheriff; which, I guess crooked cops and corrupt sheriffs also count as criminals, but still, you know what I mean. I hope that’s not the case I’m just reading it wrong, but that is sort of the sense that I get with the second one, that Hutch gets bored of being an assassin, takes his family on a vacation to an aging and broken down amusement park, and ends up having to use his skills to protect his family from this new group of bad guys that are controlling the park. I hope it’s more of a case where he likes his job as an assassin, but he needs a break, he ends up a vacation, some time to unwind and recharge his batteries 🔋, just like people do with any job, even if it’s on that they like. 

Another thing that this movie apart from John Wick and The Equalizer (2014), and other movies of that ilk is that Hutch is actually vulnerable. He’s invincible where nothing can touch him, or nothing can kill him like John Wick. Like I’m sorry, but as cool as the John Wick movies are, good as the fight choreography and the gunplay is, John Wick did kind of become invincible towards the end of the tetralogy, where he could pretty much fight everybody and no one could actually beat him, no matter how many guys were up against him, and he survived injured that would’ve killed a normal person times over. I’m surprised that he did actually die at the end of John Wick: Chapter 4, and I’m still not entirely convinced that he’s dead. They either faked his death (Bruce Wayne style) or they’ll have him come back as a zombie 🧟‍♂️, which I wouldn’t put it past them considering how out there the John Wick movies became with each subsequent sequel; the John Wick movies kind of lost the plot a little bit after the first one, and maybe the second one, okay? 

 

It got to the point where, despite much more elaborate the action scenes became, the stakes were gone because John Wick couldn’t actually die, and you knew at the back of your head that he wasn’t going to die and that he was going to win, if he even got really beat up, and had injuries that would’ve seriously hampered his ability to fight if this were real life, but it’s not real life, it’s a heightened reality where a man ♂︎ can survive getting shot multiple times across multiple films, survive getting stabbed multiple times across multiple films, survive falling down stairs, survive off several story buildings, and survive getting run over multiple times by multiple cars across multiple films. He was a glutton for punishment, and yet he somehow got up each time and was able to fight no problem as if nothing happened. See what I mean? 

 

It’s hard to relate to John Wick, and it’s hard to root him, or care about him, or worry about him during these fights when you know he’s pretty much invincible and can’t actually die by normal means; there’s no tension there, there’s no suspense. Which makes him dying from regular gunshot wounds in Chapter 4 all the more hard to swallow. The same largely goes for Robert McCall in the Equalizer movies, though he wasn’t as invincible as John Wick was, and in rare instances when he did take damage, it actually did affect him. Like, that gunshot wound he gets at the beginning of The Equalizer 3 put him out of commission for several days or months (they don’t exactly say long it takes for him to recover), and he had to be nursed back to health by an Italian doctor 🇮🇹. And even after he gets nursed back to health, he still has to walk with a cane, until the action starts back up again, then he just drops the cane and never uses it again afterwards. 

 

But, with Hutch, he’s full vulnerable, he can get hurt, and when he does, it does take him some time to get back, and leaves lasting damage on him, and he has to get patched up. When was the last time you saw John Wick get patched up in one of the sequels, except for that one scene at the beginning of John Wick: Chapter 3? Because of this, it makes clear that despite being a skilled assassin, and being good at fighting and shooting, Hutch is still human and is still capable of dying through normal means, and thus that makes it easier to root for him and care about his journey, and gives the action scenes more tension, where anyone can die, including our heroes; even if none of them actually die, just the main villain, Yulian and all of his minions. 

 

His vulnerability is what sells the action, whereas the choreography and gun training sold the action in the John Wick movies, and sheer presence of Denzel Washington and the overall way the Robert McCall character was written and portrayed is what sold the action in the Equalizer movies. Hutch looks like a regular guy ♂︎, and yet he’s a badass and can kill people, but can still take damage, that’s makes this movie special; the also goes for his father and brother, David and Harry. And the action in this movie is still pretty badass, don’t get me wrong. Like, if anything else, this movie is worth watching just for that final shootout, that final shootout is one of the coolest final shootouts I’ve ever seen in a movie. They set out to make that scene as cool and as satisfying as possible, and they damn sure succeeded, I had a blast with that scene 😁👍. 

Sure, the bad guys in this movie are Russians 🇷🇺, and it’s kind of become cliché at this point to have the bad guys be Russians 🇷🇺, specifically, Russian mobsters 🇷🇺, in an American action movie 🇺🇸; a trend that, again, was started by John Wick and The Equalizer (2014), since the bad guys in those movies were also Russian mobsters 🇷🇺. But, it still works. Yulian is still an effective bad guy, he has an intimidating enough presence (though not as intimidating as Nicolai Itchenko in The Equalizer (2014)), and has a unique personality and unique motive (kind of) that sets him apart from other Russian baddies 🇷🇺 that we’ve seen in movies (especially action movies). It’s really no surprise that the bad guys in so many recent action movies are Russians 🇷🇺. They’re easy bad guys, they’re bad guys that no one actually care or get offended if you include them and make them as morally reprehensible as possible. 

 

Not even Russians 🇷🇺 have a problem with Russians 🇷🇺 being the common go-to bad guys in action movies, if they’re done well, and aren’t portrayed too stereotypically; but really, Russians 🇷🇺, from what I can tell, aren’t that offended when they see Russian stereotypes 🇷🇺; it’s kind of how Americans 🇺🇸 really aren’t offended when they see American stereotypes 🇺🇸; but Russians 🇷🇺 don’t like being generalized as all being pro-Putin and being pro-war (Z-patriots), as long you don’t do that, they won’t be offended; oh, and don’t call any of the ethnic minorities that live inside Russia 🇷🇺, Russians 🇷🇺 otherwise they’ll get mad at you 😠, like don’t call a Chechen a Russian 🇷🇺, or a Buryat a Russian 🇷🇺, or a Tuvan a Russian 🇷🇺, or a Yakut a Russian 🇷🇺, they don’t like that; the only exception to this from what I can tell are Tatars, who generally don’t mind being called Russians 🇷🇺, but in fact, embrace it, although that could just be Russian propaganda 🇷🇺 convincing us that Tatars like being called Russian 🇷🇺.  

 

I mean, the bad guys in Operation Fortune were going to Ukrainians 🇺🇦. Acccording to Wikipedia, it was originally going to be that Greg Simmonds and those Ukrainian mobsters 🇺🇦 were going to be the main bad guys in the film. But, the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦 in 2022 (a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War 🇷🇺🇺🇦), changed all that, they had to rewrite the script, to make those two Millennial tech billionaires (I mean, they work in biotech, but you know what I mean when I say “tech billionaire,” “tech billionaire” is a catch all term for a billionaire who runs a business that deals with science and/or technology, whether it’s computer technology 🖥️💻, software technology, AI, of biotechnology) and Mike Hook, the rival contractor to Orson Fortune and his colleague/boss, Nathan Jasmine, who goes rogue and steals the Handle (the AI program that the Ukrainian mobsters 🇺🇦 stole to give to Greg Simmonds to sell on the black market to the highest bidder), and gives it to the tech billionaires, so that they collapse the entire global banking system in order to enrich themselves 🤑 by hoarding as much gold as possible and making gold the only viable currency; increasing its value tenfold. They didn’t want the optics of having a movie where the bad guys are Ukrainians 🇺🇦 at a time when Ukraine 🇺🇦 is being attacked by Russia 🇷🇺. It’s kind of the same mindset behind removing the Crusader section in the Lovecraftian horror game, Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem at a time when the United States 🇺🇸 (and NATO) was fighting a war on terror against radical Islamic extremists ☪️ (and secular Arab dictators, i.e. Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, and Bashar al-Assad to a certain extent), they don’t want offend one group or another, or be perceived as being insensitive during a time of war or political upheaval. 

The bad guys in this movie were actually going to be South Koreans 🇰🇷 originally, but because the director, Ilya Naishuller (the same director as Hardcore Harry BTW) is Russian 🇷🇺, and didn’t know anything about South Koreans 🇰🇷 or South Korean culture 🇰🇷, he decided to make them Russians 🇷🇺 instead; since he’s Russian 🇷🇺, he’s lived in Russia 🇷🇺, he’s been around Russians 🇷🇺 his whole life, so he knew the culture pretty well, and he knew that he had a platform that most Russians 🇷🇺 could only dream of (he was directing an American blockbuster action movie 🇺🇸 with a budget of $16 million 💵, written and produced by the same guys who wrote and produced John Wick), and he had a responsibility to get it right, to portray Russians 🇷🇺 as authentically and non-stereotypically as he could, even if all the Russian characters 🇷🇺 were criminals; bloodthirsty murders will very little remorse. And to be fair, all of the Russian characters 🇷🇺, with the exception of the black Russian 🇷🇺, Pavel (who was played by a Canadian actor 🇨🇦 of Ethiopian descent 🇪🇹), were portrayed by Russian actors 🇷🇺. In a lot of movies with Russians 🇷🇺, the Russians 🇷🇺 are not played by actual Russians 🇷🇺, but here they are, in fact, Yulian is played by a really famous Russian actor 🇷🇺, Aleksei Serebryakov, who the filmmaker said is like the “Russian Anthony Hopkins 🇷🇺,” and luckily, he’s anti-Putin in real life, and is even against the Russo-Ukrainian War 🇷🇺🇺🇦. 

 

He didn’t mention the Russo-Ukrainian War 🇷🇺🇺🇦 by name, but he did say, a business forum in London in 2018, that he didn’t like that Russia 🇷🇺 stirring up so many wars, and I’m sure Ukraine 🇺🇦 is included in that. I mean why wouldn’t it? If it hadn’t escalated yet with the 2022 invasion, and was still just restricted to the Donbas, it was still a war started by Russia 🇷🇺, with the purposes of regaining territory that once belonged to them, and destabilizing a post-Soviet government to the point where it would be easier for them to control; they don’t want these countries to leave the Russian orbit 🇷🇺 and join the West, because they believe if they do, then it could pose a threat to the Putin regime at home because Russians 🇷🇺 will see how much better the lives of those people in those other countries are compared to them, and will want some of that. Now, Putin has gone full imperialist, and is trying gobble up as much Ukrainian territory 🇺🇦 as he can before his army runs out of men and materiel to carry out this war and before the Russian economy 🇷🇺 totally collapses. He’s even starting to expand the war outside of Ukraine 🇺🇦 with those recent incursions into Poland 🇵🇱 and Estonia 🇪🇪, testing NATO’s resolve and willingness to defend its member states. So, it’s good to know that this actor, Aleksei Serebryakov is not a Z-patriot or a Putinist and is actually a good Russian 🇷🇺, even if many in the pro-Ukraine community 🇺🇦 don’t believe there’s any such thing as a “good Russian 🇷🇺”;  looking at you, Caolan Robertson 🫵. 

 

Even with the black Russian 🇷🇺, Pavel, there is a bit of a story reason why he isn’t played by a Russian actor 🇷🇺. He’s supposed to be of Russian and Ethiopian descent 🇷🇺🇪🇹 (one of his parents was Russian 🇷🇺 and the other was Ethiopian 🇪🇹), and that stems from the special relationship that Russia 🇷🇺 has had with Ethiopia 🇪🇹 ever since Ethiopia 🇪🇹 switched sides in the Cold War thanks to a military coup. They don’t delve that much into Pavel’s backstory, since he’s just Yulian’s bodyguard, he’s just a henchman, but I’m assuming that one of his parents was from Ethiopia 🇪🇹 (communist Ethiopia 🇪🇹☭; the Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia 🇪🇹 and the People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia 🇪🇹) and they came to study in the Soviet Union ☭, and they met the other parent, and had a kid together, Pavel, and the Ethiopian parent 🇪🇹 decided to stay in the Soviet Union ☭ and raise their son with the Russian parent 🇷🇺, right up until the Soviet Union ☭ fell and was replaced by the Russian Federation 🇷🇺. That’s how he’s both half-Russian 🇷🇺 and how he’s a Russian citizen 🇷🇺 (he’s a Russian immigrant 🇷🇺 just like all the Russian mobsters 🇷🇺 in this movie, and he presumably has dual citizenship).

 

The communist government ☭ in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 also fell right at the end of the Cold War, in 1991, just 8 months before the Soviet Union ☭ fell, and was replaced first by a transitional government called the Transitional Government of Ethiopia 🇪🇹 (TGE 🇪🇹), and then by the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia 🇪🇹, which is the government that Ethiopia 🇪🇹 still has today. But like I said, Ethiopia 🇪🇹 still maintains good relations with Russia 🇷🇺, even if the Cold War is long over and neither country is communist anymore; at least from what I understand, if I’m wrong on that (if I’m wrong about Russia 🇷🇺 and Ethiopia 🇪🇹 still being allies up to the present day, even after the Cold War and the fall of each other’s respective communist governments ☭), then please let me know. So, it’s more than possible for a Russian character 🇷🇺 to be of Ethiopian descent 🇪🇹, to be half-Ethiopian 🇪🇹 because Ethiopia 🇪🇹 became an ally of the Soviet Union ☭ in the mid-1970s (after the military overthrew the monarchy led by Emperor Haile Selassie) and remained one up until the early 1990s, and Ethiopians 🇪🇹 were traveling to and from the Soviet Union ☭, mostly to study because every country in the Second World (the Soviet sphere of influence ☭), especially those in Africa, studied at Soviet universities ☭; and of course Ethiopia 🇪🇹 participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics ☀️ hosted in Moscow, that one that the US 🇺🇸 and 66 other countries famously boycotted due to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan ☭🇦🇫. And the casting isn’t completely inaccurate because like I said, the actor who plays Pavel, Araya Mengesha is of Ethiopian descent 🇪🇹, in fact, he’s a claimant to the Ethiopian throne 🇪🇹 (of the old Ethiopian Empire 🇪🇹). So, he is still played by an Ethiopian actor 🇪🇹, just not Russian 🇷🇺, but Canadian 🇨🇦. Everyone is played by the right race, ethnicity, and nationality. 

I also liked the music, the music in this movie is pretty good. It’s mostly oldies, songs from the 1960s, the 1970s, and the 1980s, though there are two songs from the 1940s, “Straighten Up and Fly Right” by Dean Hudson and “You’ll Never Walk Alone” by Gerry and the Pacemakers. So, you don’t like that kind of music, if you don’t music from before the 21st century, then you probably won’t like the music in this movie. I like older music (as well as newer music too, I’m not very disseminating when it comes to music, as long as it’s not country, I’ll listen to anything so long as it sounds good; but there are a few country songs I like, a few of which are by Johnny Cash, whose music that even people who aren’t into country music tend to like), I like the soundtracks to the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, as well as the soundtracks to Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson movies, so the music in this movie definitely appealed to me. My favorite songs on the soundtrack would have to be “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong, “Funky Music Sho’ Nuff Turns Me On” by Edwin Starr, and “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” by Nina Simone. I mainly like “What a Wonderful World” because of the scene it’s used in, the context it’s used in, and how it cuts off at such an awesome and funny moment in the film 😄, but it’s still a good song in its own right; it was also used in Madagascar 🇲🇬, the first one, in the scene where Alex goes to the predator side of the island after he goes feral after being starved for several days and bites Marty in the butt, and Marty, Glory, and Melman go back to the beach. 

 

It’s funny that I saw this movie when I did because I’ve been listening to the soundtrack and watching the trailers to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015), the Guy Ritchie directed spy film set in the early 1960s, during the Cold War (around the time the Cuban Missile Crisis 🇨🇺 took place, or just before; it was back when John F. Kennedy was still president and still alive, and Nikita Khrushchev was still the premier of the Soviet Union ☭), based off an old TV show from the 1960s of the same name. And the soundtrack features a Nina Simone song, “Take Care of Business” and the trailers feature another Nina Simone song, “Feeling Good,” and feature “Funky Music Sho’ Nuff Turns Me On” by Edwin Starr. The second main trailer and the Comic-Con trailer both feature “Feeling Good” by Nina Simone, and the first main trailer features “Funky Music Sho’ Nuff Turns Me On” by Edwin Starr. So, it’s pretty funny how I was listening to the soundtrack and watching the trailers to that movie, and then I saw this movie and it had songs that were by the same artists, or were even the same songs. It’s funny how that worked out. I do plan on rewatching The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) and doing a review of it on this blog in the future, especially since I recently learned that Arrow Video did a 4K release for it; I’m definitely going to get it 😁. Oh, and if the title, “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” sounds familiar to you, it’s because Quentin Tarantino used a cover of that song in the soundtrack to Kill Bill: Volume 1, which was done by the disco group 🪩, Santa Esmeralda, in 1977. But, Nina Simone’s version is the original.

As I mentioned before, this movie did get a sequel. It was box office success, making $57 million 💵 worldwide on a budget of $16 million 💵, and it received rave reviews from critics, most of whom praised the action sequences and Bob Odenkirk’s performance. So, it was successful enough to get a sequel, and it got one this year, in 2025, called Nobody 2. The sequel has a much different plot from the first one, and has different kinds of bad guys, and it had a budget that was slightly higher than the first one, at around $25 million 💵; which isn’t a huge increase, but it is still significant enough to make a note of it. I mean, it from the first one having a $16 million budget 💵 to the second one having a $25 million budget 💵, that’s nothing scoff at it, it was a significant jump in cost; they were willing to pump a little bit more money 💵 into the second one because the first one was so successful, especially for a pandemic era movie 🦠😷. 

 

Another thing of note about the second one is that it wasn’t directed by the same guy ♂︎ as the first one, Ilya Naishuller didn’t return to direct it. Instead, it was directed by a guy ♂︎ named Timo Tjahjanto. I never heard of this guy ♂︎ and I haven’t seen or heard of any of work prior to Nobody 2. Actually no, scratch that, I have seen one of his movies ☝️ prior to Nobody 2, The Night Comes for Us, the Indonesian martial arts action movie 🇮🇩 released on Netflix that’s bloody and gory 🩸 as hell; I actually watched that movie with my grandma, and she didn’t like it; it wasn’t her cup of tea ☕️, not just because it was a foreign film with lots of subtitles but also because it was bloody and gory 🩸; she thought it was too bloody 🩸. So, he’s an Indonesian director 🇮🇩 with some prior experience in the action genre, and Nobody 2 is his first American feature film 🇺🇸. I’m looking at his filmography on Wikipedia, apparently his next movie is going to be the long awaited Beekeeper 🐝 sequel, The Beekeeper 2 🐝. So yay! Beekeeper 🐝’s getting a sequel 😁! 

 

I don’t know if it’ll still have Jason Statham in it, since David Ayer isn’t coming back to direct. I’m sure he is, since he was the only Beekeeper 🐝 we really saw in that whole movie besides that one lady who was supposed to be his replacement but totally got outclassed by him; she’s more of a downgrade than anything else. And Statham was arguably the main selling point of that movie, he was the reason why people even went to go see it. It’d like trying to doing a John Wick movie without Keanu Reeves (From the World of John Wick: Ballerina 🩰 doesn’t count because Keanu Reeves still appears in that movie in a minor role as John Wick), or an Equalizer movie without Denzel Washington (though they did do a new Equalizer TV series with Queen Latifah which lasted five seasons over the course of 4 years, from 2021 to 2025), or an Accountant movie without Ben Affleck, or a Nobody movie without Bob Odenkirk. But, if they do replace Jason Statham, and he isn’t in The Beekeeper 2 🐝, my pick to his replacement would have to be Scott Adkins. He’d be the perfect Beekeeper 🐝, I can already picture him in that grey suit that Statham wore that was once his old Beekeeper uniform 🐝. 

 

But, I’d want him to play a new character, a different Beekeeper 🐝, and not Adam Clay, leave that to Jason Statham, that’s his role, no one touch that. But, the Beekeeper agency 🐝 is so much bigger than Adam Clay, there’s more than one Beekeeper 🐝, and he’s retired, so you could focus on another Beekeeper 🐝, one who’s still in the agency or another one who’s retired, and that one could be Scott Adkins, if Jason Statham chose not to appear in the second one and the focus had to shifted away from Adam Clay as a result. This would be his opportunity to be the lead in a mainstream theatrically released movie (and yes, The Beekeeper 🐝 did get released in theaters contrary to popular belief), because every time, he’s been in a more mainstream movie, he’s always been in supporting role and he’s always played a villain. The only time he’s ever gotten to be the lead and be the hero, is his DTV movies (direct-to-video movies, or direct-to-DVD movies 📀, or direct-to-digital movies). So, this would be his opportunity to be the hero and the lead in a movie that actually gets a theatrical release, and people will actually have heard of. Like it or not, The Beekeeper 🐝 was popular, if only in an ironic way, and people know of it and reference it whenever they talk about Jason Statham movies, or action movies that were inspired by John Wick in someway; they certainly know more about it than Operation Fortune or A Working Man ♂︎. 

 

Speaking of movie theaters, I actually planned on seeing Nobody 2, in theaters, because it came out on August 15, 2025. I wanted to see it with my grandma, as I usually do, that’s why I went out of way to see Nobody (2021) and review it, so that I could prepared for when I see Nobody 2, because even though Nobody 2 is mostly a stand alone movie and doesn’t require you have seen the first one to understand it, you certainly appreciate it a lot more if you have, you’ll be a lot invested and attached to the characters if you watch the first movie first; you’ll want to see the characters in new adventures if you watch the first one before the second one, which is how I felt, I want to see more of these characters and I want to see them go on new crazy adventures, and be completely different scenarios than they ones they’ve dealt with before. But, it’s September now (Friday September 19, 2025 at the time I’m writing this), and it’s looking increasingly likely that we won’t be able to. The movie didn’t really do that well in theaters, it made less than the first one did. 

 

The first one made $57 million 💵 at the worldwide box office, while this movie, Nobody 2, only made $39 million 💵, probably not even enough to break even. Likely because of the movie’s disappointing box office performance in comparison to the first one, they put it on digital during the first week of September, which I knew wasn’t a good sign because when a movie gets put on digital, it usually means that it’s theatrical run is about to end soon. That’s what happened with Superman (2025). It did so poorly, fell so below Warner Bros. and DC’s expectations that they moved up the movie’s digital release and shortened its theatrical run. I’m sure that’s probably what happened with Nobody 2. It was probably going to stay in theaters longer, and it would have if it was doing better and making a lot more money 💵, but because it was doing poorly and wasn’t making the kind of money 💵 they were hoping for, they decided to move up its digital release and shorten its theatrical run. So, if my grandma and I do watch Nobody 2, it’ll probably be on a digital platform like Fandango at Home, or Amazon Prime, or on physical media, Blu-Ray 💿 and 4K Ultra HD 💿. But first, I’ll have to show her, this one, Nobody (2021).