By Drew Taylor

Like the main character of “Nobody 2,” a nebbish guy named Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) who has a secret identity as a nearly unstoppable killer, its director Timo Tjahjanto has a history. But instead of countless dead goons, Tjahjanto’s past involves directing, in Indonesia, some of the most awesomely bone-crunching, blood-splattered action movies ever. And now, with “Nobody 2,” he’s finally come to Hollywood.

In Indonesia, Tjahjanto started off by working with Kimo Stamboel as a filmmaking duo (they called themselves the Mo Brothers), on movies like “Macabre” and “Headshot” – films that gleefully combined elements of horror, film noir and action. His first film as a solo filmmaker, 2018’s “May the Devil Take You,” was a straight-up horror movie, while “The Night Comes for Us,” also released in 2018, is a truly insane action movie that reunited two of the stars of “The Raid” (Iko Uwais and Joe Taslim) and put them through the ringer. Tjahjanto also worked with “The Raid” director Gareth Evans on a standout segment for horror anthology “V/H/S 2.”