Nobody

Universal Pictures released Nobody theatrically in the United States on March 26, 2021, and in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2021. The film grossed $57 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the action sequences and Odenkirk’s performance. A sequel is in development.

In a flashback to a few days earlier, Hutch leads an ordinary, mundane life as an office worker with his emotionally estranged wife Becca, teenager Blake and a much younger daughter, Abby. One night, two thieves break into his house with a gun. Blake jumps one of the thieves and Hutch picks up a golf club but does not swing. The thieves leave. Everyone thinks Hutch a failure for not fighting, but Hutch reveals to his brother Harry that he held back because he knew the burglar’s gun was unloaded. Hutch’s brother-in-law Charlie offers Hutch a gun for his own protection, which he refuses. Hutch offers to buy out his father-in-law Eddie’s business, but Eddie considers it a bad offer.

The following evening, Abby realizes her bracelet is missing and Hutch sets out to find it. Hutch suspects the thieves from the previous night took the bracelet, based on one of their tattoos, which Hutch recognizes and uses to find the tattoo parlor they got it from. Hutch locates the thieves and demands they return the bracelet, but leaves after realizing they do not have it, punching a wall in his frustration. While on a bus heading home, a group of intoxicated thugs board the bus and begin harassing a young woman; Hutch brutally fights them off. Unbeknownst to him, the group’s leader, Teddy, is the brother of Yulian Kuznetsov, a Russian crime lord safeguarding the mob’s Obshchak money (a common treasury used to settle disputes in the Russian mafia). Hutch breaks Teddy’s windpipe, before saving his life by piercing a straw through his neck, allowing him to breathe, but puts him in a comatose state.

Hutch returns home and is bandaged by Becca, who knows of Hutch’s past. He vents his frustrations about living a mundane life to her, before they reaffirm their love for one another. Meanwhile, Yulian manages to identify and locate Hutch using his dropped metro card, and sends a team to Hutch’s home to capture him while blackmailing a United States Department of Defense official to uncover Hutch’s past. Harry calls Hutch ahead and warns him of Teddy’s connection to Yulian. He asks Hutch to check with The Barber, Hutch’s former government handler. When the capture team arrives, Hutch hides his family and kills most of the attackers. He is stunned by a electric taser, and captured by the Russian team. While being transported, Hutch searches the trunk of the moving vehicle he’s captured in, and empties a canister of fire suppressant into the car. The driver crashes, killing most of the occupants, and freeing Hutch.

Hutch returns home and reveals that he is a former “auditor”, an assassin employed by the United States Intelligence Community. While working as an auditor, Hutch spared a target who later reformed and lived happily with a new family. Wanting a similar life, Hutch retired and settled down.

Hutch sends his family to safety and retrieves his hidden gold and cash; he also finds Abby’s bracelet under his couch. He burns his house down to dispose of the dead attackers in the basement and steals his neighbor’s Dodge Challenger. Two assassins attempt to kill Hutch’s father David at his retirement home but David, a retired agent himself, cleverly manages to defeat them. Hutch uses his gold to buy his father-in-law’s metal fabrication factory and booby-traps the entire place. He then goes to burn Yulian’s Obshchak money.

Hutch visits Yulian and offers to end the fighting. Yulian also wants out as he cannot re-finance the entire Obshchak. Knowing of Yulian’s plans to retire, Hutch suggests a retirement in one of the lesser-known Caribbean islands away from the Russian mafia, while Hutch gets his life back. However, Yulian and his men pursue him to the factory and surround him nonetheless. Suddenly, Harry and David arrive to assist Hutch, and the trio kill Yulian and the Russian mobsters. The police arrive and the opening scene is shown, but he is suddenly released without charges following a mysterious phone call. Three months later, Hutch and his family have returned to normal life and buying a new house, when Hutch receives a call suggesting that he may be expecting more trouble.