Good action in an increasingly absurd setting

Rating: 7/10 (21 February 2017)

Just as the previous movie in what appears to becoming a franchise, this movie delivers solid action sequences that are a blast to watch, and probably just as much fun to make. The action in this film makes it feel like a video game come to life, and in a good way. I'm sure people will look to this the next time they try to make a movie like Max Payne.
Like the previous film, this is not much beyond an action film - but it does seem like they're intent on establishing a quite unique world. Just how far they are willing to go with it, time will tell, but right now it seems like half the population of this world is involved in an assassin underground, while the other half is utterly clueless. The fact that Laurence Fishborne and Keanu Reeves appear together is no the only parallel to the Matrix.
It's also a movie that doesn't shy away from having a little fun instead of keeping to any sort of realism. And because the world the movie is set in is kind of silly, it works well enough. I think it went a bit too far when the characters seemed willing to shoot passersby (like in the fountain scene), but mostly they try to keep them within the strange moral universe they have established.