They went with more, not better

Rating: 7/10 (27 May 2017)

John Wick was nice, it was full over board action with a certain style. I have met few people that didn't like it and those who didn't mentioned their indifference to the style and the lack of reality in the plot. So for the sequel, the creators could have gone with making it all more believable, the legend more powerful because of real situations where action validated it. But no, they went with more action, more blood, more stylistic bullcrap and a complete ignorance of the laws of men, physics or biology.
Don't get me wrong, it was still entertaining, but it has lost all novelty, the movie's only value remaining the individual fight scenes. And in this one the close up camera that showed Wick killing people that somehow failed to do anything at a distance destroyed that value.
Bottom line: John Wick chapter 2 left me with the feeling that there are more assassins in New York than normal people and that somehow Rome is one of its little suburbs. I'll appreciate style wherever I see it, but not when function is completely abandoned for it.