Ryan Reynolds' Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard gets scathing reviews
Elsewhere, Forbes' Scott Mendelsohn described the film as "cartoonish and hackneyed," and slammed it for "repeating the same narrative beats" as the original. He also knocked it for "retroactively dumbing down its characters". Variety's Owen Gleiberman branded it "a winking bash of wretched excess that makes the most overly amped and slovenly entry in the North by Northwest," while AV Club's A.A. Dowd argued that it's "so atrocious, it makes the original look like a classic." Indiewire's review – penned by David Ehrlich – was a little more forgiving, commending The Hitman's Wife's Bod...