In 2021, Bob Odenkirk surprised audiences as a superfighter badass in "Nobody," an action hit that traded on the gag of an unassuming everyman secretly being a lethal fighting machine.

Its sequel, "Nobody 2," is an exhausting slog of ultraviolence with fight choreography in place of a script. Any charm from the original is lost in this thunderously brutal riff on modern masculinity, and it may be the worst movie of the year.

Odenkirk is back as Hutch Mansell, the suburban dad whose past as a secret government assassin was outed in the first movie. Now he's in deep to the Russian mob to the tune of $30 million, money he has to pay back by going on "freelance" gigs that involve him taking out scores of goons who are trying to kill him right back.

It's exhausting, bloody work, and all Hutc

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