"Motherf***er, I AM harm's way!"
This remarkably daft enterprise is essentially a throwback buddy action/comedy which apparently had a late retooling from a somewhat harder and straighter script, and it struggles to maintain its less serious tone/style over the relentlessly long runtime. Atli Örvarsson's soundtrack is the one element that has the right edge of pastiche that the actual film often lacks, and Salma Hayek is terrific but under-used as Jackson's foul-mouthed ultra-aggressive wife, otherwise Samuel L Jackson is reliably badass with the mediocre material and Ryan Reynolds, well, is, and there are a small number of competent action sequences. There are moments when the style gels and flies, particularly in the final act, but there are also plenty of times when it misses the mark, making The Hitman's Bodyguard a moderate but disposable experience.
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