Hear Me Out: ‘Nobody’ Is Better Than ‘John Wick’

English is a funny old thing. You say, “Nobody is better than John Wick,” and everyone is like, “Heck yeah, buddy! You’re alright. You should meet my sister. Her divorce was just finalized.” But you put “Nobody” and “John Wick” in italics and SUDDENLY I’m no longer good enough for Pamela?! (Baby, call me.) What was I saying? Oh right. So, yeah, Nobody, the 2021 Bob Odenkirk action film, is probably better than John Wick.

Look, I’m as surprised as you are. We’ve all seen the trailer and thought we understood the deal. 

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We would get your generic John Wick rip-off starring one of the best comedians ever in a much darker role, we would enjoy it while it lasted, and then we’d forget it a week later. That was the plan, but, NOOO, director Ilya Naishuller had to mess with the program by sucker-punching us with one of the best films of 2021, and then he just left us all alone to pick our jaws off the floor and process what we’ve just seen. So let’s get to it.

Nobody stars Odenkirk as a mild-mannered suburban dad Hutch Mansell whose house gets burgled, but OH BOY, did the robbers pick the wrong place to hit. See, it turns out that Hutch used to be a government assassin, and after everyone gives him shit for not stopping the thieves when he had the drop on them, he snaps back into his old, lethal self and goes all vigilante on everyone’s asses like some proctologist Batman.