Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard: A film so bad it tests your faith in humanity

Now that cinemas are finally open, it’s hard to think of a worse way to mark the occasion

Salma Hayek and Ryan Reynolds in Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (2021)

Salma Hayek and Ryan Reynolds in Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard (2021)

When did the fun go away? It’s not as if Samuel L Jackson’s patented shouty frustration and Ryan Reynolds’s perma-winking wise-cracking haven’t been ill-used before. 

Good actors can make bad movies. Salma Hayek appeared in Dogma and Wild Wild West in the space of one calendar year. Antonio Banderas sandwiched a career-best turn in Pain and Glory with the mouldy buns of Life Itself and Doolittle.  

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