Disturbing

Rating: 2/10 (11 July 2017)

Here's the story. A local moronic tough guy, and his cohorts, break into a guy's house and steal his car and kill his puppy. The guy gathers up all of his weapons and goes out to public venues and slaughters people for revenge. How often have we heard this story? Of course in real life the venues are shopping malls, schools or clubs and the perpetrator is usually portrayed as a troubled, loner. John Wick in this movie is a hero who killed a bunch of bad guys with precise placement of bullets. Of course in real life the bullets are sprayed helter-skelter, by a sideways held gun, and often kill innocent bystanders or children. The fact that bullets, when they miss the intended target, don't dissipate into thin air seems to be lost to many people. There are innocent people slaughtered daily due to perceived social slights and minor insults resolved with gun violence and this movie glorifies widespread killing. Obviously I found this movie disturbing. I can see a movie like this and be disturbed by the message but others, maybe of marginal mental capacities, ingest the message as righteous behavior. A recent local road rage incident was in the news where a high school graduate was shot in the head over lane merging jockeying. And this movie, promoting vigilante gun violence, was praised by critics. What the hell is wrong with this country?