Normik in action
At first glance, Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) is average in all respects. Every day, he types numbers into Excel tables in the office of his father-in-law’s small industrial plant. His life is devoid of fireworks – you could even say that it is leaking through his fingers somewhere between one cup of cold coffee and another garbage truck, which, as usual, arrived a few minutes too early. One night, the monotony is interrupted by two burglars – Hutch, though maybe, does not react. When it turns out, however, that apart from a small amount of cash and a watch with a sentimental value, the bracelet of a few-year-old daughter is also lost, the man decides to take matters into his own hands.
And although he ultimately does not find the trinket itself, a group of drunken blips harassing a stranger in a night bus turns out to be an equally good target, allowing to vent the frustrations gurgling just below the surface of the skin and the aggression suppressed by years. Bad luck wants one of the beaten adventurers to turn out to be related to a prominent Russian gangster. Unfortunately for them, Hutch Mansell is not quite an ordinary accountant either …
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Hardcore accountant
Recently, popular cinema has taken a liking to this type of heroes – gray citizens driven to a border situation. Strangely familiar faces and circumstances. A figure of a medieval everyman– a universally ordinary man in whom every equally ordinary recipient will see himself. At first glance, such a persona seems to be Hutch – a neutral vessel to be filled with your own experiences. However, when the routine of his everyday life is disrupted, a dark past comes to light. Then the inconspicuous bureaucrat (and, as it turns out, the trigger for hiring at rest, acting on behalf of the special services) turns into a figure of a rebel for no reason. As we learn, the pretext behind the bloody crusade of our hero (on a micro scale – a children’s bracelet, in a broader context – the safety of the immediate family) is just that – the pretext, the justification that Hutch presents to himself. The real reason was always to feel like a “kick”, a shot of adrenaline,
The story itself is not complicated – it does not have to be anyway. Derek Kolstad is responsible for the script, and Ilya Naishuller is directing. These names, while relatively “young” in Hollywood, should sound familiar to action movie fans – Kolstad wrote a trilogy about John Wick, Naishuller – shot entirely from Hardcore Henry’s first-person perspective . Nobodyit continues the manner and structure of these films, offering above all a throbbing, excessively demolition. At the same time, it is difficult to talk about the glorification of violence – it is both spectacular and definitely exaggerated (which the characters themselves notice in the “grand finale”), but it does not undergo any particular fetishization. On the contrary, the grotesque exaggeration leads the brutal sequences to absurdity, consciously forcing a wink. The festival of joyful killing is great to watch; This is due not only to the attractive choreography of the duels and the creative use of unexpected props (for example a plastic straw), but also excellent photos by Paweł Pogorzelski and rhythmic, precise editing. Thanks to them, even though a lot is happening on the screen, we do not lose the thread every second.
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One Actor Theater
There can be only one star of this show – and that is Bob Odenkirk. His nuanced performance amounts to Nobody more than dozens of similar action heroes. Despite the simplicity of the plot, Hutch created by Odenkirk is by no means a paper character. Shattered between social norms and expectations, the image of a racial fagot and a deeply hidden and suppressed desire to return to the old, much more emotional life, it gradually succumbs to old habits. His face often shows contradictory emotions, lifting the edges of internal dilemmas. For the purposes of self-creation, Mansell freely juggles a series of masks and poses, and thanks to Odenkirk’s masterful play, he is credible both as a slightly crass and inconspicuous accountant, and as a case of a midlife crisis tired of the monotony of the American dream,one-liners and ironic jokes, a cold-blooded killing machine. The second set also does not lack anything, although the cast will not include names from the front pages of newspapers and movie headlines. The main antagonist was played by the director’s compatriot Alexei Serebriakov, known primarily for his memorable performances in Alexei Balabanov’s Load 200 and Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Oscar-nominated Leviathan . RZA and Christopher Lloyd, who had not been seen on the big screen for a long time, also played small, but expressive roles – it was begging him to shout once more in the heat of the exchange of fire: “Great Scott!”
As John Wick’s box office and critical success has shown , you don’t need a developed and multi-threaded storyline to tell an engaging story. Under the guise of joyful dissipation, Nobody offers many interesting clues – interjections about toxic masculinity, the crisis of the myth about the American dream and contesting social conventions – never taking his eyes off the main character’s precise, effective vendetta. The work on the sequel is already underway – and I rarely admit it, but I’m looking forward to it.
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