Prime Video Officially Resurrects the Best ‘John Wick’ Rival Ever Made
Streaming platform Prime Video has seen renewed interest in the 2021 action thriller Nobody, starring Bob Odenkirk, which has re-entered the service's global top 10. The film is presented as a standout rival to the John Wick franchise, notable for its subversive casting of Odenkirk — best known as Saul Goodman in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul — as an unassuming suburban man with a violent hidden past, and its return to popularity coincides with the arrival of a sequel, Nobody 2.
Directed by Ilya Naishuller and written by John Wick creator Derek Kolstad, Nobody follows Hutch, an ordinary man who reverts to his lethal former life after a home invasion and ends up confronting a Russian crime lord, using stylised, neon-drenched "gun-fu" action. The film was a commercial success, grossing $57.5 million against a $16 million budget, and holds an 83% critics' score and 94% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. According to FlixPatrol, it has now climbed to eighth on Prime Video's global top 10, sharing the chart with titles such as Project Hail Mary, The Sheep Detectives, Now You See Me: Now You Don't and The Housemaid.
- Bob Odenkirk's Nobody has re-entered Prime Video's global top 10.
- The 2021 film grossed $57.5m on a $16m budget.
- Its resurgence coincides with the release of sequel Nobody 2.