Film Review – Normal

Bob Odenkirk enjoyed a career detour when he elected to become an action star in 2021’s “Nobody.” The picture found an audience, inspiring the star to try tough guy business once again for 2025’s “Nobody 2,” which didn’t attract the same level of appreciation. Instead of returning to kill ‘em all territory with another one-man-army offering of ultraviolence, Odenkirk tries on a Clint Eastwood-style part in “Normal,” which is scripted by Derek Kolstad, who wrote the first three “John Wick” chapters and the two parts of “Nobody,” making him intimately familiar with the ways of middle-aged men refusing to stand down when trouble increases for them. Odenkirk is less of a killing machine in the feature, and Kolstad tries to shake things up by setting the endeavor in small town Minnesota, giving the characters cold and isolation to experience before everyone attempts to murder one another in this entertaining but slight examination of gunfights and dead bodies. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com