The Hitman's Bodyguard

The Hitman's Bodyguard is an okay airplane movie.

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Samuel L. Jackson and Ryan Reynolds sneak only a little fun into The Hitman’s Bodyguard.

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The Hitman’s Bodyguard is a dumb, fun time that’s too long for its own good.

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The action set-pieces are very choppy (it doesn’t help that this is coming in the same summer as the stairwell sequence in Atomic Blonde), the effects work rather shoddy and the darkly comic tone of shoot-em-up chaos through an open European city plays a bit nastier that it may have a decade ago.

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The charismatic stars of “The Hitman’s Bodyguard”—Ryan Reynolds shifting into lovable-loser gear as a down-graded protection agent for hire, Samuel L. Jackson in macho-and-mouthy mode as a profanely proficient deadly assassin and Salma Hayek as the sexy spitfire of a spouse who is devoted to him—all combust with masterful comic chemistry as they play off their well-established cinematic personas.

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A-list action-comedy about a man hired to protect a professional killer is good showcase for its star – and nothing else.

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Ryan Reynolds tries to convince Samuel L. Jackson he needs protection in Patrick Hughes' late-summer action-comedy.

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The Hitman's Bodyguard is the kind of film you discover while channel surfing, stop on, and end up watching the whole thing without any previous intention.

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Two charming stars and one canal boat chase aren’t enough to distinguish this Euro-set action-comedy.

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The Hitman’s Bodyguard is the comfort food of action comedies, like mac and cheese with a side of extreme violence.

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An end-of-summer burst of adrenaline, The Hitman’s Bodyguard promises nothing more and nothing less.

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It occupies its genre niche — the exuberantly violent Euro-action movie-star paycheck action comedy — without excessive cynicism or annoying pretension.

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The result is passable stupidity leaning hard on its wily leading men. The movie’s also pretty galling in its unceasing brutality for laughs.

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Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson star in Patrick Hughes’s predictable, formulaic action comedy.

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Ultimately, the film most disappoints for its unwillingness to consistently poke fun of its inherent absurdity.

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Despite all the mayhem, The Hitman’s Bodyguard is a surprisingly bland dish.

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‘Why are we always yelling?” Ryan Reynolds says to Samuel L. Jackson in a rare, passably funny moment in “The Hitman’s Bodyguard.”

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