![]() ![]() In 2018, the actor came with a blockbuster sequel of ‘Deadpool’, titled ‘ Deadpool 2’. Ryan Reynolds has been on a roll recently. Grant would reprise their roles as Michael Bryce, Darius Kincaid and Sonia Kincaid respectively. In May 2018, Lionsgate announced that Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard Cast: Who is In it? With the film being an action comedy, it is also suffice to say that the sequel will indulge in another mission that the two men have to compete in, with Sonia Kincaid having more involvement in the narrative. However, with the title focusing on the “wife”, we can assume that the film will focus on Salma Hayek’s character which was not explored much in the first film. There has been nothing offered by the studio or the filmmaker about the plot or story-line. The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard Plot: What is it about? So, with this information at hand, here is everything we know about ‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’. ![]() The filming of the sequel began in March of 2019. Lionsgate secured the rights of distributing while Millennium Films, Campbell Grobman Films and Maximum Effort will be in charge of the production. The film’s commercial success instantly spawned off a sequel, with the title ‘The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’. ![]() The movie was released on August 18, 2017, and scored a lacklustre 41% on Rotten Tomatoes but was immensely successful at the box-office, grossing $176.6 million against a budget of $30–69 million. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with many commending the aforementioned chemistry between actors, comedy and action while criticising the clichéd narrative. In addition, the comic chemistry between Deadpool and Nick Fury, or Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’, although suffers from a flunky third-act and the archetypal action comedy plot, is hilarious and immensely witty. Jackson as the equally loud-mouthed hitman Darius Kincaid, the charismatic Salma Hayek as the beautiful Sonia Kincaid and the chameleonic Gary Oldman as the villainous Vladislav Dukhovich. The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is released on 18 June in cinemas.The film stars the sarcastically brilliant Ryan Reynolds as Michael Bryce, the hilariously loud-mouthed Samuel L. There are some almost-laughs here and there, but please tell me that we aren’t in for The Hitman’s Mother-In-Law’s Agent’s Bodyguard in 2023. To add to all his anxieties, Michael is also afflicted by feelings of inferiority in comparison with his stepfather, a legendary veteran bodyguard: a great big comedy cameo for a big name who is entirely wasted in the part. There are also some weirdly pedantic references to the Goldie Hawn comedy Overboard, perhaps to pre-empt objections to possible plot-borrowings. (This would have been topical around the time of the “Grexit” row of 2012.) So we have loads of Euro-locations and loads of car chase scenes through picturesque tourist cities, with cars lumbering down crumbling stone steps and at one stage even smashing through the traditional fruit-stall. The idea is that he will use a super-strong drill to damage the underwater junction box that holds the data for the European Union’s computer systems, as a revenge for the EU beating up on his home country. They find themselves up against Greek supervillain Aristotle Papadopoulous, played by Antonio Banderas with such an uncompromising refusal to do a Greek accent that at first I thought it had to be some kind of gag. So the wacky trio are back together again, Reynolds getting whatever laugh lines there are going, as he is bemused and depressed by the situation that this couple have put him in, though not as bemused and depressed as all of us in the audience. Michael is stripped of his “licence” to practise bodyguarding and is now in therapy but just as he decides to take a restorative European break by the pool, Michael gets sucked right back into the melee by Kincaid’s badass wife Sonia, in which role Salma Hayek is once again phoning in her hellcat routine. Ryan Reynolds is back as Michael Bryce, the former triple-A rated bodyguard, now haunted and traumatised by his professional failures, and by his association with the notorious assassin Darius Kincaid, played by Samuel L Jackson. Anyway, here’s the sequel with the extra-clumsy double-possessive in the title. Here’s the tiresome follow-up to the tiresome action comedy with the tiresomely (and unfunnily) muddled premise: bodyguards generally protect people against hitmen and hitmen generally don’t need bodyguards as they’re not publicly visible … but that wasn’t the point. ![]()
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