I watched this film and paid money to do so the last time i was in Singapore only to discover that it was available on my international flight back to Thailand for free on the plane. At that particular point in my life it was the only film i had seen in theaters for years. I chose it for all the wrong reasons: I recognized 2 people on the poster. However, with the access that people have to just about everything online these days I don't suppose that choice is all too uncommon.
It's an action-comedy film. An all too common one as well i suppose and if i was on board to be involved with this thing i would have likely not wanted to be. However, the movie made more than 100 million dollars so well, that's a success.
Ryan Reynolds plays Michael Bryce, a guy that somehow has the skillset and reputation to be hired to protect high-profile clients as they move around the world. Sam Jackson is Darius Kincaid, who is an aging assassin who well, does the opposite of that. They end up teaming up because: stuff. It doesn't really matter. I mean honestly the storyline is dumb but that doesn't change the fact that the movie is fun and worth seeing.
Basically, Michael Bryce gets hired in a roundabout way to protect Darius Kincaid from people that are trying to kill him. They are both really lethal so of course they butt heads and both of them end up being wrong or right throughout the various scenarios they find themselves in.
It should come as no surprise that at first they really don't want to work together but eventually they end up being pals. At least, i wasn't surprised because there really wasn't anywhere else for that film to go.
I bet it was really fun to be an extra in this scene
The movie was great because it stayed fun throughout despite the fact that we are relatively sure what is going to happen once the two of them get teamed up. It seems as though (at least in USA) that we are focused more on individual scenes than we are in the overall story. I don't necessarily like this idea but I also realize that the ultimate objective of any movie studio is to make money, not to make art.
This movie is money. It sure as s**t isn't art.
That being said i think that if you are in the mood for some laughs as well as some kick-ass action, you could do worst than The Hitman's Bodyguard.