Less character development, same results

Rating: 6/10 (23 October 2017)

As a whole, the movie played out the same as the original, although lacking some of the dry humor and things that would make you root more for Wick that the original had. What I fail to understand was the unneeded femme fatale character like in the first Wick movie that has no character build-up or back story. Who is she? All I could gauge was she's a smartass with the intimidating physical attributes of a 13- year old child and yet we wait through her hiding behind every other bad guy he could possibly fight/kill to die first for the ending and for her to be taken out as easily as well...fighting a child should take.
At least they didn't make it as painful as it could have been and had her actually give him a real scare for his life like everyone with clue knew would be more fantasy than him killing a guy with a pencil through the back of the head. Why is it these movie always have to have a character like this who after dealing with real imposing and capable bad asses the whole time, being giving either a chauffeured villain who's been pampered his whole life and who's blood is half crème fraîche, or a 85 lb sexy hot (but with attitude of course) woman who even if her ninja like, cat quick reflexes were all that, couldn't kill a fly with a round house kick to it's cranium, to fight?
I mean; I realize all of it is fantasy and Wick realistically should have died 5 minutes into the first movie, and having a tough gal with a great ass is somehow mandatory now for flicks like this anymore, but my intelligence would have been less insulted if the movie was about a dwarf woman who wanted to play Inside LB for the Bears and got the start after she proved she could get to the QB and chew on his calf with her wicked smarts and hard to catch elusiveness that her pet ferret taught her. Enough already. If they simply must (new SAG law) have to employ a woman in the role of "tougher than 99% of the men" in flicks like this, can they at least make her somewhat believable physically?