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PaulFThumpkins t1_iuzjdt4 wrote

John Wick is already running on worldbuilding fumes, this can't be good.

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ncopp t1_iv10trv wrote

Idk, man. I'm surprised they could stretch this for so many movies already. I thought John Wick was gonna be a one off action flick, not the American James Bond. I was delightfully surprised to get sequels, of course.

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PaulFThumpkins t1_iv15x6p wrote

I'm there for the action and Keanu (and Reddick and McShane), absolutely. But the actual plot of 3 is so incoherent it kind of kills the stakes. Few things the characters do really make sense and they set up these big stakes and kind of ignore them.

Feels like we jumped the shark at Wick shooting that guy at the end of 2 when the guy hadn't done anything nearly as bad as the villain in 1, and he'd already gone to the ends of the earth to curry the guy's favor, and knew it would rain hell on him. By 3 the entire plot is driven by characters making mercurial decisions on a whim, even if it ignores rules they said were ironclad.

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Malvania t1_iv170l3 wrote

Feels like the second could have ended with something like: The High Table understands that by the High Table's own rules of the marker, Mr. Wick was required to take the contract for Gianna D'Antonio. However, a contract on a member of the High Table can never be sanctioned, so Mr. Wick's actions in dispatching Santino D'Antonio will not trigger ex communicado sanctions.

Anything else is "Nah, hits on the high table are fine, here's your seat at the table"

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Toidal t1_iv1fl8b wrote

I really liked the dog sequence, but the last sequences, with the shotguns, the 2 on 1, and then the 1 on 1 felt kinda boring.

Like in the Jackie Chan action analysis video, all the action was all clear and visible but there wasn't a rhythm or narrative to it. Just one action sequence after another. Most boring rampage ever

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Toidal t1_iv1ewfp wrote

Seriously if this was the mid 00s, I'd half expect a tie in mmo would've been announced

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mr_ji t1_iv24cr9 wrote

I hope he does some fancy gun fu in this one!

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