If you thought Bob Odenkirk was finished playing the “unassuming guy you should absolutely not underestimate,” Normal suggests otherwise. This latest action-thriller, written by Derek Kolstad and directed by Ben Wheatley, takes a familiar setup and pushes it somewhere darker — and occasionally weirder — than expected.There’s nothing especially “normal” about it.

Odenkirk plays Ulysses, a man trying to outrun his past who finds himself working as a temporary sheriff in the town of Normal. At first glance, it’s the kind of place that trades on quiet routines and surface-level charm. He’s looking for exactly that: distance, simplicity, a chance to disappear.

Then a bank robbery disrupts the calm.

What follows is less a straight procedural and more a gradual unravelling. The town begins to feel off — connections don’t quite add up, and Ulysses quickly finds himself pulled into something far more complicated than small-town crime. As he digs deeper, the threat escalates, tying the town to a broader criminal network and forcing him back into a life he was clearly trying to leave behind.