I was bored and disappointed and actually fell asleep

Rating: 5/10 (15 May 2015)

Well, everyone knows this is a revenge movie with lots of action. And, yeah. There's lots of action. But honestly - that's all there is. There isn't much in the way of character. I never figured out why the Willem Dafoe character acted the way he did. There's no humor to speak of. I didn't find the action sequences to be very creative, and I actually found them to be repetitive. For example there was one plot element where a lot of people are waiting for Wick to come and they are all checking in with each other by radio... and then exactly the same thing happens later on.
There's lots and lots and lots of action but it's amazing how soporific it all got. And I mean it literally put me to sleep. I was pay-per-viewing it and I literally dozed off. More than once. It had been a long day at work, I admit. But if it had had any hook to hold my attention, I would have stayed awake. But it didn't. Well, there is this comic-book assassin subculture stuff with an economy based on special gold coins, but nobody past the fourth grade could believe in it.
So I was honestly pretty disappointed. And I'm not someone who can't enjoy a good action film. Take "Salt", for example, which was also non-stop action, but which I found way more interesting and with more plot twists and stuff. There aren't really any plot twists in this movie. It was just entirely first-person-shooter for an hour and a half. Now, if someone says, "But that's exactly the kind of movie I like! You're just biased against first-person-shooter non-stop hitting and pulling the trigger movies!" I guess I don't have a good retort. But there it is.