Bob Odenkirk's turn at being Liam Neeson in another "old white guy" action movie - this time, a suburban husband who's secretbadassness emerges after a house robbery - the film does a few swerves, bringing in an entire side-set of Russian douchebags for Odenkirk to smash through when it becomes clear the original house robbers aren't going to be able to sustain the length - and this does play more as a mid-life-crisis fantasy played out, down to and including the surprise emergence of Christopher Lloyd as his dad and another secretbadass. It still suffers slightly from Connie Neilsen's wife character being a cipher (indeed, the entire family, in particular the douchey son, are pretty much ciphers), the Russians being a tad too goofy to function as real threats, and some self-indulgence, but it's still pretty solid largely due to Odenkirk's ability to play exhausted irritation.
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