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The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)

August. 18,2017
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6.9
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R
| Action Comedy
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The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.

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Steineded
2017/08/18

How sad is this?

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CommentsXp
2017/08/19

Best movie ever!

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ActuallyGlimmer
2017/08/20

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

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Frances Chung
2017/08/21

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

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martinjohnson-31275
2017/08/22

A good piece of mindless cinematography. Certainly doesn't make you think or hold your interest, but it's a good movie to have on in the background while your doing something else.

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itsbobr
2017/08/23

After the failed delivery of a Japanese client Michael Bryce loses his Triple-A Executive position and becomes a simple bodyguard for hire. Interpol Agent Roussel (Elodie Yung) hires him to protect Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) a contract assassin to testify against Vladislav Dukhovich (Gary Oldman), who if Kincaid fails to show up at trial, will go back to power and treat his people as he wants and that's a very bad thing. Michael has to deliver Kincaid to the court in the Hague from Manchester.This is very over the top, too much foul language by almost everyone especially by Mrs Kincaid (Selma Hayek), who is in prison. The stunts, fights, explosions, car/boat chases are extremely good and well choreographed. And, yes, over the top also because of over-acting by Samuel L. Jackson as Kincaid, but maybe he can be forgiven due to the circumstances of his being arrested and then protected by a bodyguard who he did try to kill many, many times. (Count 28) The banter between Michael and Darius is sometimes clever, and sometimes funny, sometimes over done, but always honest. The scene I liked the best was when Michael and Darius got a ride in a bus filled with nuns. Very good. The carnage at the end when Michael and Darius are heading to the court house is unbelievably good and the hope is that a lot of the destruction was CGI and not real. It looked too real. Notables: Elodie Yung as an Interpol Agent who Michael is in love with, but Michael blames her for his losing his Triple-A rating and his job; Tine Joustra as Renata Casoria a Chief Interpol Agent; Joaquim de Almeida as Jean Foucher an Interpol Agent under Renata CasorisSo basically, this is a movie of extremely good stunts, explosions, chases, and foul language, but it has its moments. Production wise it is very good. (7/10)Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Humor: Yes. Language: Yes, way too much. Rating: B

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starchy-2
2017/08/24

I really enjoyed this movie! Ryan Reynolds never dissappoints me whether he's playing funny, serious, romantic, or intense. I don't know why that's always so overlooked? Maybe because he IS so funny and good looking? Never understood that. But either way, great team up! There were a few things that could have made this movie really great- I think they needed to do something different with Gary Oldmans character (too serious, I know they were going for an opposite effect, but I think they could have really played with a comedic element with him) and Selma Hayek should have had maybe a few more scenes. There was some sort of element missing from the movie that I couldn't put my finger on, but as a whole I got exactly what I signed up for when I went to see it. I got some awesome action sequences and great stunts, Ryan and Sam were hilarious and great with each other, I liked the small bit of love story they brought in for each of them, and I liked the premise. A great sequence I really enjoyed was the chase and the fight scene with the Little Queenie song - I'm a sucker for fun fight scenes with great oldies music haha.

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sddavis63
2017/08/25

Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) was once a big-timer in the security world, running a private protection agency guarding big-name clients. Unfortunately, one of his clients is assassinated, and Bryce hits rock bottom afterward, desperately trying to rebuild his reputation and his business, reduced to being a personal bodyguard to whoever will pay him. Suddenly appears Darius Kincaid, an imprisoned assassin who's been offered a deal to testify at an international court in The Hague against a former dictator on trial for human rights abuses. Interpol turns out to be compromised and, realizing that they can't safely get Kincaid to The Hague, they hire Bryce to do the job for them. And the story goes on from there.In one sense it's an entirely formulaic action-adventure movie. There's lots of gunfire and car chases and explosions. There are a lot of seedy people following Bryce and Kincaid. From the perspective of that genre, if you've seen one you've seen this. It's also a comedy. As a comedy, it's a little better than it is as an action-adventure. It did manage to raise a couple of chuckles out of me, and the concluding car chase through The Hague is actually a pretty good example of both action-adventure and comedy. In fact, while perhaps a little bit long, it's clearly, to me, the highlight of the entire movie. Of course, we end up in a pretty typical countdown, as Kincaid has to be at the court in The Hague by no later than 5 pm or the dictator goes free. (It's actually pretty hard to believe that a war crimes trial would be brought against a guy when apparently the only hope of convicting him is through the testimony of a professional assassin - but you do have to stretch logic in these kinds of movies.)The performances in this were so-so. Reynolds didn't really stand out to me. Jackson seemed to put a lot of effort into it, but also wasn't a standout. I was most impressed (insert sarcasm emoji here) by the writers, who tried really hard to put the word f$!k (or variation) into a single sentence as many times as possible and as often as possible for Jackson's character of Kincaid.At the beginning of the movie Bryce tells us that his company's motto is "Boring Is Always Best." Not really. Frankly, I found much of this movie (up to the car chase in The Hague) to be boring - and it wasn't the best movie I've ever seen. To be honest, it simply wasn't very memorable. The exciting (and sometimes funny) car chase helped out, though. (4/10)

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