Review of John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
Seen in 2021.
I appreciate that Keanu Reeves’s stunt-double buddies made this in homage to the rich analog action cinema of the past, but it’s just not as engaging as Hard-Boiled (1992) et al. The acting and editing are pretty bad, and the story is campy, with none of the humanity of Die Hard (1988).
The assassins think $7M USD is a lot of money, but apparently there are tens of thousands of people in that organization, and they have to pay for running a chain of international assassination-themed luxury hotels, a hilarious manual telephone exchange, etc. It’s curious how many of them are willing to take the most idiotic risks charging at a superhero for a fraction of just a few million. Luckily, all of the world’s police forces and governments seem to have been corrupted by the same low sums.