In this light, the film's moral spokesperson is Kincaid, a jolly, chuckling devil whose assurance gradually gets the better of Bryce's qualms. It might even be more than coincidence that Oldman is made up with spectacles and pepper-and-salt beard to resemble the cerebral Austrian director Michael Haneke, who rails against irresponsible violence in movies while freely indulging the cruel side of his own imagination. Hughes' exact sympathies in Red Hill were hard to fathom, but in this film only the mildest irony accompanies his support for gung-ho Americans over hypocritical Europeans and for lowbrow entertainment over art cinema. Lewis) emerges from the past to wreak vengeance on a significantly named country town. Outwardly it's all as mindless as can be, yet Australian director Patrick Hughes has a knack for provocative allegory in the guise of genre, as he showed in his 2010 debut Red Hill, in which an Indigenous killer (Tom E. The Hitman's Bodyguard pairs Ryan Reynolds (left) as a bodyguard with Samuel L. The gags are cast in a wilfully tasteless mode intended to be liberating, though some are hard to stomach: one involving a farting woman in prison might be the nadir. On the most immediate level, the plot is an excuse for actorly showboating and action sequences, the highlight being an exciting speedboat chase through the canals of Amsterdam.

Jackson as ruthless hitman Darius Kincaid, bickering and bonding as they travel through Europe to Belarus, where Kincaid is meant to testify against a tyrant (Gary Oldman) on trial for war crimes.Īctual Belarussians may be bemused by this plot point, but it hardly needs saying that anyone seeking insight into Eastern European politics should look elsewhere. Our two guys are Ryan Reynolds as uptight bodyguard Michael Bryce and Samuel L. At any rate, here again is the mismatched buddy dynamic that has been an entertainment staple for decades. You could call The Hitman's Bodyguard a throwback, in the sense that the term can now be applied to any Hollywood film that doesn't involve superheroes.

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