Though he seemed bound for a comeback when the last pic ended, Reynolds’ Michael Bryce is still washed up as an elite bodyguard, his prestigious triple-A rating lost after he let a zillionaire client get killed. Screenwriters: Tom O’Connor, Phillip Murphy, Brandon Murphy Jackson, Salma Hayek, Antonio Banderas, Morgan Freeman While the teamup still fails to become more than the sum of its parts, at least we can appreciate Hayek’s enthusiasm for the over-the-top role.Ĭast: Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Perhaps admitting that the original’s pairing of Jackson with Ryan Reynolds (the bodyguard) resulted in something less than classic buddy-pic chemistry, Hughes and company make Hayek’s foul-mouthed brawler an equal partner. Jackson’s hitman, from the small but scene-stealing role she played in the first film.
The one smart thing the film does is promote Salma Hayek, as the eponymous spouse of Samuel L.
A by-the-book sequel to a movie that was already striking in its unoriginality, Patrick Hughes’ The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard offers many explosions, chase sequences and bits of naughty dialogue that would barely register as humor if they weren’t being delivered by some of Hollywood’s most charismatic stars.
