If you’ve seen the the original Nobody, then watching Nobody 2 will be a no brainer. Being a sequel don’t get your hopes up too high, but it’s a decent addition to what is ultimately going to become a 3 or 4 film franchise, I venture to prognosticate. I say this because if you’ve seen the first one, this one might seem a little tame, but they’ve done well with the story, brought back all the important characters, and added a Mansell brother. They also flashed the seven deuce again (the tattoo on his wrist) so at some point we’re going to get an origin story.
In Nobody 2 our lethal father figure is doing what he does best. He’s incurred significant debt from his actions during the first film (burning the tchotchke, or whatever), but is working with an organization with his best interests at heart vested to keep him and his family safe. But he’s got to pay his debts. Continuing to deal with underworld characters he performs odd jobs and makes inroads into his considerable 30 million dollar debt, but there’s only so much the organization can help him with for a man of his considerable skill is immediately useful in a dangerous world full of dangerous people.
After a harrying contract it’s time for The Mansell Family to go on vacation. Attempting to relive some of his youth as well as show his family and wife he’s the good father we all know him to be, he takes his family on vacation to Plummerville. When Mr. Nobody was a child his father brought him to Plummerville for vacation and he fondly remembers it not only as a great vacation with dad and family, but of a time when he was once happy with less significant responsibilities, and having killed considerably less people thus far, I’d continue venturing.
But Plummerville is not what it used to be, or maybe it always was. Being the central location for outbound criminal dealings of every kind, Mr. Nobody soon finds himself embroiled in feuds. First it’s a disrespectful owner who slaps his daughter upside the head on the way out of the arcade. Next, it’s corrupt cops who simply know no better. Finally, he finds himself deep into the shit with the kingpin of this shitty little town and try as he might to extricate himself and de-escalate trivial situations, the powers that be won’t take the hints and ultimately everything just needs to be burnt the fuck down.
So basically another film meeting our exact expectations showing once again Mr. Nobody can not, or simply will not, lose. Sure, he might have lost the end of his pinkie finger while fighting on a boat, which hilariously flies off and gets eaten by a random fish jumping up out of the water. Fighting 3 guys on a boat. And a cop. He’s not doing anything wrong. Their just coming to kill him because he decided to vacation in the one city that if you vacation there, your whole family is bound to be murdered. Par for the course.
What do you bet coming up in the next movie there’s a scene where we find the The Mansell Family in a fish market. They purchase some random fish, take it home to cook it and when they cut it open, yup, there’s the pinkie. Probably goes to the hospital to get it reattached, not bothering to go into the biology or physics.
Basically Mr. Nobody has us hanging on for the origin story now, which won’t be the next one. Oh no, that’s after the next one, Mr Nobody 4, which I’ll venture will be the exact name of the fourth movie. Mr. Nobody 2 is a fun movie with a fun premise which we’ve already been hook line and sinkered into.
They have us on the hook now for the origin story, which I’m hoping some good thought goes into because it has the possibility to have us feeling like we did when we saw the first one.
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