{"id":2024683,"date":"2025-09-15T23:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2024683"},"modified":"2025-09-15T23:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:11:16","slug":"normal-review-bob-odenkirk-fires-on-all-cylinders-in-ben-wheatleys-jaw-droppingly-excessive-blast-of-a-crime-caper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/normal-review-bob-odenkirk-fires-on-all-cylinders-in-ben-wheatleys-jaw-droppingly-excessive-blast-of-a-crime-caper\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Normal\u2019 Review: Bob Odenkirk Fires on All Cylinders in Ben Wheatley\u2019s Jaw-Droppingly Excessive Blast of a Crime Caper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">If there was any lingering doubt regarding <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0644022\/\">Bob Odenkirk<\/a>\u2019s late-career reinvention as a legit everyman action star, Normal handily seals the deal. Having proved himself up to the task after Nobody and Nobody 2, he wildly ups the ante with an unapologetically over-the-top small-town crime thriller.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by genre-hopping <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1296554\/\">Ben Wheatley<\/a> and written by <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm11918947\/\">John Wick<\/a> creator <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4401003\/\">Derek Kolstad<\/a> from a story hatched by Kolstad and Odenkirk, the subversive Western is a take-no-prisoners gore fest that peppers all the visceral carnage with an equal sprinkling of dry wit. Given that it shares so much of its DNA with those <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7888964\/\">Nobody<\/a> movies (also penned by Kolstad), it would be understandable if some might think it\u2019s actually Nobody 3, which wouldn\u2019t necessarily work against it. Given the energetic reception that greeted the movie\u2019s world premiere as part of TIFF\u2019s genre-heavy Midnight Madness section, the indie production should be able to corral U.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there was any lingering doubt regarding Bob Odenkirk\u2019s late-career reinvention as a legit everyman action star, Normal handily seals the deal. Having proved himself up to the task after Nobody and Nobody 2, he wildly ups the ante with an unapologetically over-the-top small-town crime thriller. Directed by genre-hopping Ben Wheatley and written by John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2024684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2024683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018Normal-Review-Bob-Odenkirk-Fires-on-All-Cylinders-in-Ben.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2024683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}