John Wick in the Suburbs
On paper, Nobody sounds like a late-night sketch premise: what if the exhausted guy losing his mind over trash pick-up days was secretly the government's top auditor-assassin? Director Ilya Naishuller and writer Derek Kolstad (who created the John Wick franchise) take that exact joke and execute it with deadpan gravity and astonishing stunt choreography.
The secret weapon here is Bob Odenkirk. Rather than playing a sleek, invincible superhero, his character Hutch Mansell gets hit, bleeds, tires out, and looks like a guy in his fifties who is going to feel every single hit tomorrow morning. The iconic bus fight scene halfway through the film sets the tone: it is slow, clumsy, painful, and deeply visceral.
The Age Line
This is not a borderline PG-13 superhero movie where bad guys disappear off-camera when they get hit. People are stabbed with straw wrappers, shot at point-blank range in close quarters, hit with cars, and blown up with improvised explosives. Blood hits the camera lens. Bones snap in quiet rooms.
If your 16- or 17-year-old is already watching films like The Matrix, Gladiator, or John Wick, Nobody fits right into that shelf. For anyone younger, the graphic intensity and dark framing of violence as personal therapy make it a hard pass.
