THE HITMAN’S WIFE’S BODYGUARD
Funny mayhem overwhelmed by obscene, excessive violence and language.
Should You Watch It?
This sequel has comic twists, constant action, and some witty dialogue. But the action and dialogue move so quickly that the movie becomes frantic, frenetic, and frenzied rather than satisfying.
The film also surrounds its comedy with excessive negative content. Its violence includes graphic gunshots and blood, while the language is constant and especially heavy on “f” words. The characters may be trying to stop a terrorist plot, but the movie gives them no discernible spiritual or ethical system supporting those actions.
The answer is straightforward: despite its three-star entertainment quality, skip it.
The Story
NO SPOILERS — WE KEEP THE SURPRISESUnlicensed bodyguard Michael Bryce is trying to recover from nightmares about hitman Darius Kincaid and take a break from guns. Then Darius’s wife, Sonia, arrives with a dangerous problem: Darius has been kidnapped.
After the three misfits reunite, an American Interpol agent forces them to help stop Aristotle Papadopolous, a wealthy Greek nationalist planning an attack on Europe’s electrical grid. Their mission brings frantic chases, gunfights, arguments, and one comical twist after another.
Is It Any Good?
Three stars means the movie has real entertainment value, but its execution works against it. The comical twists are funny, and some of the dialogue is witty.
Still, the action eventually comes so fast and furiously that it becomes too tiring. The constant foul language makes the dialogue seem even more frenzied. The result is not as fun or satisfying as it could have been.
The Worldview
The three lead characters help an international police force stop a destructive terrorist, but they have no discernible spiritual or ethical moral system supporting their actions. Michael Bryce has the strongest moral character because he tries to do the right thing and is sworn to protect his clients. Darius and Sonia, however, are criminals. The movie therefore includes some positive moral elements within a generally pagan, amoral worldview.
The film also presents a wealthy Greek nationalist who blames the European Union for Greece’s treatment and wants to restore Greece’s greatness. Its economic politics are confusing: the villain resembles a conservative nationalist figure, while the source’s analysis notes that Greece’s financial troubles also resulted from centralized, socialist, big-government policies. The movie’s implied political ideas are not a clear argument.
The deeper historical point is important: Greek culture itself is not the foundation of Western Civilization. Christianity’s transformation of Greco-Roman culture through the Bible and the preaching of the Gospel shaped Western Civilization’s peace, goodness, compassion, prosperity, and justice.
The film’s moral longing is incomplete without a true moral source. Scripture says, “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good” (Romans 12:21).
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Strong pagan worldview with some moral elements about trying to stop a terrorist plot against Europe’s whole electrical grid, one of the “good” guys tries to do the right thing and sometimes admonishes the crazy hitman and the hitman’s wife he’s reluctantly working with for their outrageous behavior, the hitman’s crazy foul-mouthed wife wants to start a family, and the wife makes the Sign of the Cross when she gets some good news, plus some light politically correct and potentially misleading anti-capitalism and revisionist history (the movie is a comedy and its main intent doesn’t seem intended to be a rabid politically correct leftist screed)
Foul Language
At least 189 obscenities (including many “f” words), four strong profanities, 10 light profanities, and married man mentions he was shot in his private parts and went to a fertility clinic because his wife wants to start a family
Violence
Lots of slightly graphic gun violence and lots of other less graphic action violence includes many gunshots that hit bad guys or minor good guys and cause some blood to spray, two gunshots spray man’s face with blood in two scenes, threats of torture, many gunfights and chase scenes, explosions, one villain ends up with a small knife in his neck (no blood or not much blood in that scene), lots of physical fighting (punching and kicking and judo/karate skills between “good” guys and bad guys, people knocked against walls and objects and hit with objects during the physical fighting, car hits a man, unconscious man is tossed into the ocean but he’s not dead and eventually gets out without drowning, man jumps in front of a bullet but he’s wearing a bullet proof vest and eventually wakes up before drowning, man is thrown out of car window when it crashes, and other vehicles crash during chase scenes
Sex
Partially depicted sex between a clothed married couple next to a car in an isolated field, the same couple is heard making love in another scene, the same couple kisses passionately several times, and there are some sexual references, including in one scene where a woman uses vulgar sexual terms for her anatomy
Nudity
No nudity but some female cleavage in some scenes
Alcohol Use
Brief alcohol use
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
No smoking but one or two brief drug references;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Some Catholic nuns on a bus or train cross themselves when they hear a woman swear like a sailor (the bit is intended as a joke, but the scene isn’t Anti-Christian or Anti-Catholic per se), terrorism and revenge but rebuked, kidnapping, betrayal, the tragic accidental death of one character’s mother is given a slightly comical spin (the rest of the movie is frequently satirical), and [SPOILERS FOLLOW] a character is looking for approval from his stepfather, and the stepfather appears to give approval, but he turns but to be working for the villain, and the character has to kill his stepfather in an intense fight to the death.
Talk About It
Questions for the drive home, the dinner table, or the youth group.
The characters try to stop a terrorist plot, but what moral foundation should guide the fight against evil?
Romans 12:21 · Micah 6:8Sonia wants to start a family. What does Scripture say makes a home strong and faithful?
Psalm 127:3–5 · Ephesians 5:25One character longs for approval from a stepfather. Where should our deepest identity and approval come from?
Romans 8:15–16 · Galatians 1:10The film connects national anger with revenge. How does the Bible distinguish righteous concern from sinful vengeance?
James 1:19–20 · Romans 12:19The Final Word
This movie has funny twists and some witty dialogue, but its frenetic action, abundant profanity, graphic violence, crude content, and pagan, amoral worldview overwhelm its merits. For your family’s time and conscience, SKIP IT. Consider these alternatives instead:.
