If there’s a lesson the audience can learn from the Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, it’s that Michael Bryce cannot catch a break.
The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is a sequel to the 2017 action-comedy: The Hitman’s Bodyguard. The movie continues four years later with Bryce (Rayn Reynolds) in therapy, slowly coming to terms with a life that involves absolutely zero bodyguarding. He reluctantly agrees to a sabbatical to work on his “inner-self,” but when has that ever worked out for anybody?
When Sonia Kincaid (Salma Hayek) finds Bryce on his vacation and demands that he help her save Darius (Sam Jackson), Bryce is dragged to the center of a homicidal scheme without his permission. Now his only chance at saving Europe from a madman is teaming up with this con-couple … which ultimately leads to him being adopted by them.
Not even exaggerating here; that’s exactly how the movie ends.
Still confused? Don’t worry, a good chunk of us were. Let me explain the ending of Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard to you.
1. Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard Ending Explained
After Sonia and Darius promptly kill Aristotle (bad guy™), Bryce hits the manual override and destroys the ship, and the trio barely makes it out alive. Bryce is later asked to sign a document, and assuming it’s his AAA license, he does— only to find out that those are adoption papers. The Kincaid’s are now officially his parents.
I saw many complain that this ending was too abrupt and random, but it’s honestly the exact opposite of that.
Though it doesn’t do the best job at it, the movie did build-up to this ending.
We see this with the way Sonia warms up to Bryce after he tells her the real reason he’s overwhelmingly cautious.
Bryce lost his mother to a minute of recklessness, leading him to become a bodyguard and do his best at protecting others (his way of coping with the guilt). It’s a surprisingly tragic backstory for a movie of this genre, but I’m in favor of the occasional sad backstories (sideeffects of watching too much shonen).
Besides, after realizing Darius can’t give her children, it makes sense that Sonia would channel all of her motherly affection towards Bryce — a boy (in Sonia’s eyes) who’s lacked the love of parental figures his entire life.
But despite all of the soft undertones, Bryce and Darius aren’t the most enthusiastic about becoming family (a given, thanks to the history they share). You could see it in their eyes — the way they dread the idea of another whacky adventure together.
1.1 Does The Ending of Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard Set Up A Third Movie?
While the movie is free of cliffhangers, the ending of Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is bizarre enough to keep the possibilities of more installments open. Since Michael is now Darius’ son, there’s a long list of things that could go majestically wrong, creating enough potential for another film.
And if the words of director Patrick Hughes are to be trusted, future Hitman’s Bodyguard films shouldn’t be left in the drafts.
“It dawned on me during the first film that the endlessly suffering fool who is Michael Bryce, must suffer endlessly. Therefore we must endlessly make sequels.”
Director Patrick Hughes in an interview with Collider
That sounds like a lot of entertainment at the expense of Bryce’s sanity, but I won’t complain. Reynolds, Jackson, and Hayek are the ultimate dysfunctional criminal trio; humanity needs more of that.
2. About Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard
Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is a 2021 American action comedy film directed by Patrick Hughes and written by Tom O’Connor and Brandon and Phillip Murphy. The film is a sequel to the 2017 film The Hitman’s Bodyguard. It
features Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Salma Hayek, and Richard E. Grant reprising their roles, with Frank Grillo, Tom Hopper, Antonio Banderas, and Morgan Freeman joining the cast.
In the film, suspended bodyguard Michael Bryce (Reynolds) must once again team up with hitman Darius Kincaid (Jackson) and his wife (Hayek) to stop a madman (Banderas) from launching a terror attack on Europe.
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