The filmmakers love their sequences and their set-pieces. Each new location John Wick sprints to has its own unique set of weapons, animals, and vehicles, all of which John Wick uses to kill people in the most imaginative ways possible. The story and the plot, mostly revolving around the Continental Hotel and the worldwide consortium of assassins and their coins, is starting to make less sense. Potential for this world-building in the first movie was HUGE, but we’d be fooling ourselves if we thought that this could be anything other than a light-framework on which to hang the many, many murders with machine guns, knives, and dogs. Keanu is better at the gun than the fu, and he’s not quite as quick as some of the others on the stunt team. Future movies might benefit from being more gun-based. These movies are always a thrill. There should be Oscars for stunt teams.
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