New on DVD: Next mission for ‘Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard’

The sequel to a raunchy buddy action comedy that turns the attention from the hitman’s bodyguard to his wife tops the DVD releases for the coming week.

“The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard”: Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson are back as bodyguard Michael Bryce and assassin Darius Kincaid, this time tasked with protecting Darius’s wife, played with great aplomb by Salma Hayek.

“What overly complicated international incident have they gotten themselves into this time?

“It involves Antonio Banderas

as a flamboyant Greek shipping magnate/terrorist, Aristotle Papadopolous, who is procuring diamond tipped drills on the black market in order to access the data junction boxes that control all of Europe,” wrote Tribune News Service critic Katie Walsh in her review.

As is often the case with sequels, the filmmakers “take a ‘more is more’ approach,” Walsh wrote. “More explosions, more gun battles, more boob jokes, more daddy issues, more reckless rampaging around Europe.”

Also new on DVD

“The Water Man”: A boy sets out to save his ailing mother by searching for the Water Man, a mythical figure who possesses the secret to immortality, said to reside in a remote forest.

“Riders of Justice”: Danish film starring Mads Mikkelsen as a recently deployed soldier who returns home to care for his daughter after his wife dies tragically, only to discover her death wasn’t actually an accident.