Not gonna take it

The wrong guy is picked on in ‘Nobody,’ a fun, kill-heavy affair starring Bob Odenkirk

First, we get a close-up of the beaten face of Bob Odenkirk’s Hutch Mansell. ¶ Hutch, handcuffed and sitting in a darkened room, then pulls a cigarette from a pack and lights it with a Zippo. ¶ Next from his jacket comes a can … of tuna and … a can opener … and then … an adorable little kitty that gets to work on its dinner. ¶ We then see that a man and a woman — obviously law-enforcement types — have been sitting across from Hutch and observing this whole production. ¶ “Who the (expletive) are you?” the woman asks. ¶ “Me?” he says. “I’m …” ¶ “NOBODY,” announces on-screen text for the new, reasonably fun action film with that title.

“Nobody” is penned by Derek Kolstad, a co-creator of the “John Wick” franchise, who wrote the series’ first two entries, co-wrote the third and is credited by this movie’s production notes as being

its “narrative architect.”

Not surprisingly, “Nobody” feels quite “Wick”ian; it’s a guilty-pleasure, empty-calorie romp seemingly designed to hold us over until the arrival of the fourth installment of the beloved over-thetop action franchise starring Keanu Reeves, set for theaters next year.

Here, instead of Reeves’ namesake ultraskilled assassin, we get Hutch, who, after this prologue sequence, we see living a mundaneand-frustrating experience.

The days of the week rush by and repeat for him with unsatisfying work and home lives, the latter involving him somehow missing the Tuesday morning garbage pickup every week.

UNIVERSAL PICTURES Bob Odenkirk stars as Hutch Mansell in “Nobody.”