Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard review roundup: Sequel to Ryan Reynolds film suffers from ‘repetitive and tired genre tropes’

Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is the sequel to 2017’s The Hitman’s Bodyguard. The first film saw Ryan Reynolds playing the protection agent called Michael Bryce, who is tasked with protecting the life of a notorious hitman Darius Kincaid, played by Samuel L Jackson and safely escorting him to International Court of Justice in The Hague in Netherlands.

The sequel has Bryce once again teaming up with Kincaid and his wife Sonia Kincaid (Salma Hayek) to stop a dangerous criminal (Antonio Banderas).

Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard has not pleased critics. It currently holds a dismal rating of 25 per cent on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. The critical consensus reads, “Despite the charms of its ensemble, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard fails to protect the audience from repetitive and tired genre tropes.”