History Film / TheHitmansWifesBodyguard

'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPBGtKnNFuU Teaser]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIbwFvB2sY4 Red Band Teaser]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C0l31YcahQ Trailer]].

The film was originally supposed to be released in 2020, but ended up being delayed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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''The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard'' is a 2021 action comedy and the sequel to ''Film/TheHitmansBodyguard''. It was released on June 16th, 2021.

''The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard'' is a 2021 action comedy and the sequel to ''Film/TheHitmansBodyguard''. It stars Creator/RyanReynolds, Creator/SamuelLJackson, Creator/SalmaHayek, Creator/AntonioBanderas, and Creator/MorganFreeman.

Still stressed by the events of the first film, Michael Bryce decides to take a holiday and not think about bodyguarding. His plans come to a screeching halt when Sonia Kincaid barrels into his life and forces him to help her and Darius -- her husband, Bryce's former protectee, and the cause of Bryce's lingering mental issues -- survive the Mafia's plot to kill the two of them.

* BigBadDuumvirate: Aristotle Papadopoulos is the terrorist leader trying to shut down Europe, [[spoiler: while Michael Bryce Sr.]] is his head of security. The two are also confronted at the same time in the climax: Aristotle by Kincaid and Sonia and [[spoiler: Senior]] by Bryce.

* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: [[spoiler: Sonia does this to Aristotle during the final battle when he and Kincaid are engaged in a MexicanStandoff.]]
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: How Kincaid and Sonia kill Aristotle at the end of the final battle.]]

* DecoyGetaway: Basically applies; [[spoiler:Kincaid and Bryce basically set up a couple of Interpol agents to get killed by the first wave of Aristotle Papadopoulos's security because they look a bit like the two men at a distance]].

* GroinAttack: [[spoiler:Kincaid is revealed to be sterile because Bryce hit him in the testicles with a ricocheting shot during a previous confrontation]].

* OutrunTheFireball: [[spoiler: After killing both Bryce Sr. and Aristotle and Bryce disabling the drill, Bryce, Kincaid, and Sonia do this when the yacht explodes.]]

* TheStinger: [[spoiler:The trio are now stuck on a boat given by O'Neill for a month or two, due to them still being on red notice. Therefore, after Michael sees Kincaid and Sonia having sex, [[DissonantSerenity he calmly jumps off the yacht]]]].
* TraumaButton: Bryce has this once Bryce Sr. serves him, Kincaid, and Sonia gelato for dessert, leading Bryce Sr. to explain Bryce’s DarkAndTroubledPast above.

* ContinuityNod: [[spoiler:Bryce finishes off Magnusson by shoving him through a jukebox three times, with each moment causing a song to play. The last time has Music/AceOfBase's "I Saw the Sign", which was the same song that Bryce sang to block out Darius' singing in the first movie]].
-->'''Bryce:''' [[spoiler:You’re lucky. Cause I love this song.]]

* RealityEnsues: When [[spoiler:Bryce faces his stepfather in a fight, he realises that the man is actually wearing kevlar despite his claim that he never bothers, Bryce Sr. pointing out that he's a ninety-year-old man]].

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: The first movie ends with Bryce possibly rekindling his relationship with Amelia, after Darius makes him realize he's still in love with her. In this movie, she's nowhere to be seen and doesn't even get a mention during his therapy session.

* BigBadDuumvirate: Aristotle Papadopoulos is the terrorist mastermind trying to shut down Europe, [[spoiler: while Michael Bryce Sr. is his head of security.]]

** [[spoiler: Following his FaceHeelTurn, Bryce’s stepfather is this to Bryce.]]

* KnightOfCerebus: Much like Dukhovich from the first film, there isn't much funny about Aristotle, and his introductory scene of him suffocating an EU diplomat and him shutting down an entire city are treated fully seriously.

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* ChekhovsGun: Bryce's penknife.

* ContinuityNod: In the first film Bryce removes the clip from Darius' gun and thumbs the bullets onto the floor one by one. In the sequel, [[spoiler:Senior]] does this to Bryce while taunting him, only to discover that Bryce had done the same to him. [[spoiler:"Remember who trained me?"]]

** Aristotle also employs a renowned bodyguard that Bryce admires, a hitman to whom Darius claims to have lost a lot of contracts, and an AxCrazy woman. No bonus point to guess with which of them each main character gets a one-on-one fight with in the climax.

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Bryce’s stepfather goes from respected bodyguard to Aristotle’s head of security, selling out Bryce.]]

* OutrunTheFireball: [[spoiler: After killing both Senior and Aristotle and Bryce disabling the drill, Bryce, Kincaid, and Sonia do this when the yacht explodes.]]

* RealityEnsues: When [[spoiler:Bryce faces his stepfather in a fight, he realises that the man is actually wearing kevlar despite his claim that he never bothers, Bryce Senior pointing out that he's a ninety-year-old man]].

* TraumaButton: Bryce has this once Senior serves him, Kincaid, and Sonia gelato for dessert, leading Senior to explain Bryce’s DarkAndTroubledPast above.

!!This film provides examples of:

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: At the end of the film [[spoiler: The trio are given a yacht and Bryce jumps off the shop as Sonia and Darius have sex in the boat.]]

** Aristotle also employs a renowned bodyguard that Bryce admires, a hitman to whom Darius claims to have lost a lot of contracts, and an AxCrazy woman. No bonus point to guess with which of them each main character gets a one-on-one fight in the climax.

* VillainRespect: [[spoiler:Bryce Sr.]] having been [[spoiler:stabbed with the penknife by Michael]] tells him "Not bad" and then as he's dying points out that shutting down the drill and blowing up the yacht is the only
way to stop the shutdown of the EU.

* PunchClockVillain: [[spoiler:Bryce Sr.]] is so devoted to his [[spoiler:job as a bodyguard]] that [[spoiler:that's [[EvenEvilHasStandards his reasoning]] primarily]] for helping and working for Aristotle.

* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler: Following his FaceHeelTurn, Bryce’s stepfather is this to Bryce.]]

* ColdBloodedTorture: The trailer shows Bryce and Darius being subjected to torture. While Darius is defiant, Bryce agrees to talk before the torturer lays a finger on him, ([[CallBack obviously remembering his time being tortured in the first film]]).

* TheChewToy: Bryce suffers a number of injuries, including taking a shotgun round to the chest (while wearing Kevlar) and getting hit by a car ''twice'' over the course of the film.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: While on sabatical, Bryce starts off lounging in a deck chair, reading a book, and listening to music while completely oblivious to a raging gunfight happening behind him... until Sonia rips off his earphones and orders him to help her.

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