Movie Review: Bob Odenkirk’s assassin sequel ‘Nobody 2’ fails to hit the mark

The workaholic assassin Hutch Mansell is in a funk as “Nobody 2” opens. He’s sick of the daily grind, by which we mean he spends hours a day grinding people’s skulls into mush. What about a family vacation?

“You need to have happy memories,” he tells his wife and kids. Unfortunately, no one in the theater will have a happy memory — or maybe even recall that they saw this C-level offering — by the time it’s over, mercifully after less than 90 minutes. The movie opens in theaters Friday.

Bob Odenkirk makes another awkward stab as an assassin-turned-nice-guy in a sequel that still isn’t funny or stylish enough to be anything but “John Wick Lite.” Is it a send-up? A riff? A new lane?

In a departure from this summer dominated by insanely larger-than-it-needs-to-be sequels — like “M3GAN 2.0 ”