It's tough taking fliers on movies like The Hitman's Bodyguard that don't have pre-existing history backing them up, which is why so many movies today are sequels or comic book adaptations or reboots. With those you at least have some idea of what you're getting, with all these other one-offs, you're basically just going on whatever they put in a trailer, and half the time the trailers turn out to be a problem anyway because they're either incredibly deceptive or they spoil the whole movie. That is of course assuming you even see the trailer since the trailers for these movies tend to get buried under the latest big thing from Marvel or DC/Warner Bros. So it's tough to build any kind of hype or momentum for these kinds of one-off action flicks, but despite all that, in this case it was indeed a trailer that got me into the theater. Seeing Ryan Reynolds and Sam Jackson's back-and-forth in the first trailer for this piqued my interest, even though th...
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