Should be called "John Wick should have died 100 times". A great movie until you think about it

Rating: 3/10 (12 August 2019)

The basic premise of this movie is that Wick is a retired assassin on a revenge rampage. We're supposed to empathise with a man who was and is a ruthless, amoral killer whose former employer included a Russian mafia boss.
Then we're supposed to believe that this man is so well known that the entire city knows him, yet he lives alone in a literal glass house with zero security.
The local town has an assassin's hotel and hangout big enough to house the population of Yankee Stadium, and luxurious enough to have the budget of a small country. And this is not played for laughs or weirdness - it's just a thing.
The assassin himself roller coasters between supposed awesome displays of lethal skill, and breathtaking, showboating ineptitude, such as simply getting back into the vehicle that was stolen from him and returned, without checking if it's bugged or booby trapped, recovering from his failed hit in a hotel known for homing assassins without drawing the curtains or securing the door, or taking on the boss and his most deadly henchmen in a carpark without remotely securing the area.
The number of times Wick just blasely strolled, without so much as a pair of sunglasses or a cap to disguise his identity, into situations with dozens of trained killers waiting for him was downright insulting.
The gunplay was stupidly showy, the martial arts was stupidly ineffective and flashy, and every actual hand to hand fight was in the dark.
I liked the movie at the time but hated it in retrospect. Every scene was a massive insult to my intelligence. It lacked the comic book hyper reality of Sin City yet it was far too silly to consider as a serious attempt at the genre. Fal, fail, fail.