Nobody

There is this thing Quintin Tarantino said in an interview that I think about a lot. 

It was essentially, that movie violence is cool and real violence is abhorrent. And there is a ton of pretty great movie violence in Nobody. 

To the point where this is almost a Looney Tunes cartoon. Which is to say it was incredibly cool and fun. 

I didn’t believe a second of it but I had a blast watching Bob Odenkirk of all people pretend to be a super special forces soldier who picks a fight with the world and a particularly nasty band of Russian mobsters because he’s a bored family man. 

We’ve all been there guy. I feel you. 

The best way I know to describe it is that the movie takes place in action hero fantasy world. The place where 40 or 50 well trained bad guys can never hit their target (except a non deadly shoulder shot or a knife wound to the fleshy part of the thigh) and the good guys never miss. 

Also, every good guy trap nails at least three or four bad guys and the bad guys keep marching forward regardless of how many of their comrades go down.

There is a part early in the movie where the hero basically begs God to give him a reason to commit all the violence he wants to commit. And I couldn’t help but feel that he was also us, the audience, begging the movie to unleash the action. Don’t worry, I think this scene takes place 20 minutes in and you have been well entertained by the time we get there. 

Nobody knows that the magic is partly keeping everything lean and at a brisk pace. 

At one point Odenkirk winks at the camera, essentially, after giving the bad guy an option to walk away and let everything end without another round of madness. 

When the bad guy starts chasing him again and the final fight begins Odenkirk smiles at us. 

That smile lets you now that the movie gods will deliver 30 more minutes of insanity. 

Ok let me explain it one more way.

If Odenkirk had been replaced by Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger back when they could play a man in his late 30s or 40s then this movie would not have changed in any conceivable way. Also, Macruber could have been in it and it would not have changed in any conceivable way. 

Salud!