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The Better Call Saul star reprises his role as a kickass family man in a follow-up filled with gonzo fight sequences.
Having been revealed to be a former government assassin who’d reinvented himself as a suburban husband and father in the first film, this sequel sees Hutch still working as an assassin but neglecting his family, so he insists on taking them all on a summer break to a cheesy vacation resort with a goofy water slide and silly cabins – a place to which his dad, the loveable grandpa played by Christopher Lloyd, who comes along too – once took him when he was a kid. Inevitably Hutch gets involved with local bad guys, including a corrupt sheriff (Colin Hanks) and sadistically mean crime boss Lendina, played by Sharon Stone.
It all culminates in a final-act showdown at a funfair that’s just the right amount of silly escapism, with Lloyd, RZA, and even Connie Nielsen getting to join in on the fun too. But if Nobody felt like John Wick was its inspiration, this is almost closer to Deadpool, as the violence gets pushed into more farcical and viscerally cartoonish places.