The Hitman’s Bodyguard

Film Review: Un-Buddy-Like Violence in ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’

Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 17, 2017 - 4:59pm

CHICAGO – One day I would like to meet a professional assassin. Are they as quippy and biblical as Samuel L. Jackson? This tired movie occupation is trotted out again, this time pairing Jackson with Ryan Reynolds, in an overwrought and ultra-violent buddy comedy, “The Hitman’s Bodyguard.”

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