Pitiful and violent

Rating: 3/10 (12 February 2017)

Whatever was fun about the first movie is totally lost and forever forgotten in this one. I am okay with a certain amount of "stylized violence" and but that was not why I enjoyed the first John Wick. I enjoyed the first because it didn't take itself seriously. These types of movies can't afford to be serious, because when they are their terrible. And so it the problem with John Wick Chapter 2, it takes itself way too seriously, including its over the top, ridiculous, crude violence. Such violence just turns everyone off.
If I disliked it so much I guess people will wonder why I gave it a "3". There were a few good moments; mostly when they Reeves stops shooting so much. There also were a few rich characters, Fishburne, Common (a little), Ian Shane, Claudia Berini and Lance Reddick. Wish the rest of the film had been as interesting as they were.