He is a world-class bodyguard. His new job is to guard the killer, whom everyone dreams of killing. He himself would gladly have killed this reptile. But work is work: deadly enemies in the past, they are forced to unite in the present in order to survive. However, their methods are so different, and the principles are opposite, that the question of survival is a big question.
The Hitman’s Bodyguard Reviews
“Mazafaka” and his bodyguard
If the phrase “buddy movi” does not say anything to you, you did not live at the turn of the 80’s and 90’s, when the “blossoming” weapon, “deadly weapon” and other “City police” came to a period of violent blossoming of this genre. It would seem that for almost thirty-year history of the genre existence, films about two partners who at first hate each other with fierce hatred, but in the course of action are imbued with mutual respect, should wallow in their own cliches, but the phenomenal success of the “Joint Trip” and last year’s “Glorious Guys” and “One and a half spies” showed that the bet on this scheme is still working without fail. Guided by this principle, the director of the third “The Expendables” Patrick Hughes, tailored his “Killer’s Bodyguard” according to the classic templates of Buddy Musi, and, in my opinion, did not fail …
Professional killer Darius Kincaid goes to a deal with justice to remove charges from his wife. Kincaid should act as a witness against the Balkan dictator Dukhovich at the international tribunal in The Hague, but during the transport of the witness, Dukhovich’s henchmen attack the Interpol cortege and interrupt almost the entire convoy. The miraculously surviving agent of Amelia Russell has nothing else to do but ask for help from Michael Bryce, the bodyguard of the premium class. Roussel still does not even imagine that Kincaid and Bryce have old accounts with each other …
As mentioned earlier, Hughes decided not to step back a step from the classical Buddy movi – in addition to the fact that one of the teammates, as usual, the “Blackguard’s Bodyguard” is a set of gags with which the heroes of Reynolds and Jackson endlessly banter one on top of another and quarrel violently. Yes, not all jokes go, as they say, “to the cashier”, but the natural ability of both to combine coolness with the ability to be funny, along with the actor’s charisma is to the benefit of even the hackneyed word “mazafaka” that does not shatter the audience’s hearing. Good in her role, and Salma Hayek, and although in the film it is negligible, the scene of her fight in the bar, capable of brutality comparable to the famous scene of massacres in the church of the “The Hitman’s Bodyguard”, more than compensates for the absence of a beautiful Mexican. By the way, there is a lot about the action in general, and it’s a lot in the film, and although the imagination of the spectator who has seen the spectator will hardly surprise him, but every cent of the thirty millionth budget Hughes works out with more than honestly impressive shootings, hand-to-hand and chases. In short, the “The Hitman’s Bodyguard” is a Buddy Musi in the classic sense of the word, which, without any exaggeration, will please everyone: it certainly does not disappoint the loyal fans of the genre, and in terms of familiarizing with it, if suddenly still unfamiliar , it is definitely good. An excellent one-off film, more than coping with its task to amuse the viewer.
