I Watch Films: Nobody 2

 

Nobody 2

Hutch from Nobody has been taking assassination missions from Barber, who is in some way associated with the US government, to pay off the debts incurred in the film Nobody. This has, again, estranged him from his family so he decides to take them on holiday. The place he goes is an amusement park in Plummerville Wisconsin, site of the only happy holiday from his childhood.

His son gets into an altercation with a local teen bully. Things escalate, though Hutch tries to calm things down; when a member of staff slaps his daughter he fights them all, beating them up in the arcade. It turns out the bully’s dad is Wyatt, owner of the amusement park. He and the sheriff order Hutch out. The sheriff secretly sends more men after Hutch.

It turns out that Plummerville is a smuggling centre; in fact as is pointed out, the reason Hutch’s dad took the family there years ago was because he was checking it out undercover for the FBI. After they attack Hutch on a tour boat he goes looking for information. It turns out that Wyatt is trying to get out from under the big boss, who has had the sheriff kidnap Max. In a similar way to the first film they have several fights, leading to a setpiece in the booby trapped amusement park.

To a certain extent the title gives away the game – it’s the same film, Hutch is Nobody, deliberately, and he stumbles into a violent situation and has to use all his old violence skills. Right down to boobytrapping somewhere (this time an amusement park which isn’t used quite as well as I’d have preferred – but it is fun).

Watch This: Action thriller lifted by the slow increase in tension and scale (and stunts)
Don’t Watch This: Violent man stumbles into violent men; violence ensues