Nobody

Nobody is the most surprising action film of 2021: Bob Odenkirk — Saul Goodman himself — as a retired assassin who snaps after a home invasion and systematically destroys the Russian mob. Odenkirk trained for two years in fight choreography and firearms, and his everyman physique makes the violence feel earned rather than fantastical. The bus fight that ignites the plot is a masterpiece of escalation, and Christopher Lloyd wielding a shotgun in the climactic home invasion is pure cinema joy. Director Ilya Naishuller (Hardcore Henry) stages the action with kinetic flair, and the John Wick DNA is evident but the tone is distinctly its own — more darkly comic, more suburban, more relatable.