It's clearly last chance saloon for Bob Odenkirk to be an action hero, and he does succeed here in making us forget Saul Goodman within 15 minutes, which seemed improbable at the start, with him stuck in a dull 9-5 suburban family existence, briefly upset by a botched burglary attempt on their house.
Then he cracks, and the ride into mayhem begins. A point of comparison would at first be Death Wish, but really what manner of beast this turns out to be is in the vein of Oldboy, The Punisher and John Wick. I shouldn't have been surprised if I'd remembered that the director was also behind Hardcore Henry, which had little else than an ambition to hit the highest on-screen kill count in history, but Odenkirk's genial presence both lulls you into a false sense of security and elevates what follows far beyond the norm for the genre, since he's plainly not a run-of-the-mill killing machine.
6/10
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