An Awful Sequel to an Awful Action Flick

Rating: 1/10 (29 May 2017)

This film is just a terrible sequel. The story is about how manipulative John Wick is. He thinks he can just walk in and take stuff without asking. He has a dirty history of violations towards the Continental. He does terrible things to innocent people and we are supposed to care about him? The sequel has ruined the John Wick character. The first one was awful too, but I never expected the sequel to be this awful. Lets talk about the technical aspects of the first film, it had competent cinematography and action sequences. Here, it feels like the director wanted a long fish lens to use to show the action more wide, but all it does was create unnecessary on screen space that turns the action scenes into dull art. The colors are much more vibrant than its predecessor, but there was no reason to do so. John Wick's world is supposed to look dark and ominous. It isn't supposed to look like a world full of rainbows. The cinematography just destroys the tone of the world that was competently created in the first film. The fight choreography and stunts are very mediocre and unimpressive. It's slow and it's so fake that you could easily tear it apart. There's tons of continuity errors where ADR does not match or the scene before doesn't match up with the continuity of the next scene. The sound design is too loud and it's obnoxious to listen to. The music is bloated as if Hans Zimmer composed it. There were times where I noticed the camera man had a difficult time following the action sequences, it was very annoying and laughable considering that they used a wider lens for this. There is an abundance of shaky cam and it's not intense at all, it's lazy. This is an overall lazy sequel that doesn't deserve its rating. Keanu Reeves may have pumped up the training for this, but the directors obviously told him to lay low. The fights got more slower and slower and predictable each minute.
I would give this a 1/10.