Even worse than the first movie

Rating: 2/10 (18 March 2018)

Picking up where the first movie left off, John Wick still wants his car back. Also, he now discovers that there is a bounty on his head. Rejoining his former profession, he heads to Rome to complete an assassination assignment.
The first John Wick was quite disappointing. It started well, with a good build up and backstory. After a while, however, it lost any pretence of character-development, plot- development or intrigue and just becomes a simple action movie. This was unfortunate, as it had some potential in the crime-drama stakes.
Even worse, it was action of the perfectly choreographed, first person shooter, high body count, explosions-for-the-sake-of-explosions variety. It got rather monotonous and predictable after a while. I gave it a 5/10.
John Wick Chapter 2 dispenses with the luxury of character depth or a plot, or even pretending to have them, and gets straight to the action scenes. They just come in waves. If three minutes have gone by and nothing has exploded, or shots have been fired, or cars chased or someone performed a martial arts move, you know a scene involving at least one of the aforementioned one is due, and it's going to go on and on.
Quite mindless, unoriginal, monotonous and boring.