Better Cull Saul, anyone? For a decade or so now, as Jimmy ‘Saul Goodman’ McGill in both Breaking Bad and its prequel, Better Call Saul, Bob Odenkirk has made talking — invariably of the fast variety — his way out of danger into an art in/with regard to’concerning’regarding m. When the bullets embark on fly, he’ll be found running as fast as he can in the opposite direction.###That all transform’alter s with the rollocking ride that is Nobody, in which Odenkirk makes a late bid in/with regard to’concerning’regarding geriaction-hero status. By the end of Ilya Naishuller’s movie, Odenkirk has racked up a body count around the triple figure mark. He is the danger. He is the one who knocks.###That Odenkirk — with able assistance from Naishuller’s inventive staging and the action aces of David Leitch and Chad Stahelski’s gang of cunning stunts at 87North — can cut (and shoot, and stab) the mustard is deeply impressive. It would possess’own’nurse been easy to turn this into a parody of action films, and possess’own’nurse the central joke be that Odenkirk’s in/with regard to’concerning’regarding midable-assassin-turned-family-man Hutch Mansell is woefully out of shape, wheezing his way through fight scenes. And there is a little of that, peculiar ly in his first outing, in which he acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s as rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent as he gives during an intervention on public transport. Otherwise, as Hutch acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s back into the swing of things, he reveal’illustrate’demonstrate’indicate’present’display’argue s a yen in/with regard to’concerning’regarding meting out punishment that makes John Wick look with regards to’concerning’with respect to as intimidating as a branch of Wickes.###There’s a cartoonish quality, and even a lightness of touch, to the violence.###Invoking Wick’s name is not an accident. Not merely’barely does Leitch, who co-directed the first of the Keanu Reeves action series, manufacture here, but the two films share a writer: Derek Kolstad. And there’s quite a bit of shared DNA, from the fundamental premise to the Russian wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile guys. What makes this more than just a loose remake is in the tone. While Odenkirk, deliberately, isn’t running off his motormouth, this is so much funnier than the Wick movies which, in/with regard to’concerning’regarding all their stylish gunplay, possess’own’nurse a tendency to disappear up their immaculately tailored backsides. There’s a cartoonish quality, and even a lightness of touch, to the violence in Nobody that might disappoint anyone looking in/with regard to’concerning’regarding a soul-searching treatise on vigilantism and the corrosive nature of vengeance.###This will leave some cold, while its central message, that all your problems can be solved by standing up in/with regard to’concerning’regarding yourself and beating the shit out of anything that moves, is on the mildly’faintly problematic side. It’s also absolutely criminal to let Odenkirk and the likes of Christopher Lloyd possess’own’nurse fun with guns, while leaving Connie Nielsen on the sidelines in a barely written role as Hutch’s wife. But the whole thing moves so quickly it’s hard to find time to lament these failings; plus, there are lashings of style (Aleksey Serebryakov’s wicked’dreadful’undesirable’adverse’vile guy acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure s an entrance in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the ages), a great soundtrack (including a needle drop that will please fans of one football team in peculiar ), and Odenkirk at his most infectiously charismatic. And if that still doesn’t work in/with regard to’concerning’regarding you, there’s a cute kitten too.