Review by B.C. Kowalski
Odenkirk is a badass FILM REVIEW Saul Goodman in Nobody But it turns out, that’s all a cover. And one that probably would have continued for years, if not for a pair of married burglars who break into Hutch’s house one night. His son manages to wrestle one to the ground, and Hutch has the drop on the other, but instead lets her go. His son is disgusted with him, adding to the woes of his daily grind. When he discovers his daughter’s kitty cat bracelet is missing, thinking the burglars grabbed it, that’s when he can’t hold his cover anymore. He heads out on the bus to find the couple and recover the kitty cat bracelet. Without giving too much away, he ends up leaving a ruthless group of thugs on the bus a bloody mess to save a fellow female passenger. The bad news for Hutch: one of the thugs was the son of a ruthless Russian mob figure who is now hell-bent on killing him slowly. The bad news for the Russian mobster: he’s messing with Hutch, a former auditor for the CIA whose job it was to clean up any messes for those who couldn’t be negotiated with. (And by “clean up any messes”, to be clear, we mean he was a
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brutal assassin for the CIA.) With the help of his father and former CIA operative (Christopher Lloyd!) and his former partner Harry (RZA) Hutch takes on the Russian Mafia, leaving an impressive bloody mess in his wake at every turn. It means the destruction of his former life, but once Hutch has decided on his course of action, there is no stopping him. And there’s no stopping the killer that’s once again emerging in him. Odenkirk plays this brilliantly, and where he really shines as an actor. It’s not a transformation; more that he just kind of slowly lets go of the facade that he was ever mild-mannered. He just matter-offactly does what he needs to do, which in this case seems to be raining down hellfire
on the Russian mobster and his goons. Nobody then becomes a fast-paced, shoot-em-up action film with fights that are brutal, but also realistic. The bus scene seems to nearly leave Hutch down for the count as well as the bad guys, but you’re also led to understand this one guy, exhausted and beat up as he is, took out all these ruffians. Nobody doesn’t necessarily break new ground here, and is a variation on the “I thought I was out, but they pulled me back in” motif. But unlike, say, Gina Davis’ character in The Long Kiss Goodnight, Hutch isn’t pulled back into the service. Just pulled back into the violence. Either way, it’s a blast to watch.
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This might end up being the hottest of hot takes, but I was a big fan of Bob Odenkirk in Breaking Bad — in fact, I think his character Saul Goodman was by far my favorite of the series. I go even further into the hot take zone when I say I like Better Call Saul better than Breaking Bad. Was it due to Odenkirk’s acting prowess and character creation ability? Or was it just that character, a perfect fit for its time and place and setting? In other words, was it Odenkirk, or just plain good writing? With Nobody, I think I have my answer. In Nobody, available in some theaters as well as available to rent via Amazon Prime and AppleTV, Odenkirk plays a very different character than his Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Instead of a morally ambiguous lawyer with deeprooted goodness that is often suppressed, we have something of the opposite here. Hutch Mansell seems like an everyday schmuck who can’t seem to get the garbage out on time, rides a bus to work at his boring accounting job where he’s harassed by his idiot brother-in-law and seems to be in a sexless marriage.
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