Stylish but shallow

Rating: 6/10 (18 May 2019)

What I liked:
I liked the stylish color grading, and the stylish fantasy of the assassin's secret society, where assassins are smartly dressed, pay for services with standardized gold coins, and are shown respect by so many people. The music was also quite appropriate for the feel of each scene.
What I didn't like:
The plot was simpler than I hoped. Some plot hooks were set up in the middle of the movie, but many of them were resolved in an anticlimactic, straightforward way. Also, the fight scenes were too often unintelligible - just rapid-fire movements and gunshots meant to show how badass John Wick is, rather than making me understand the situation and wonder how John will get out of it. Finally, I didn't understand John Wick's motivation for his final fight, or the reference to a "code" that was mentioned around that time, or why a certain female character agreed to something near the end.