Unbelievably Bad

Rating: 5/10 (7 July 2017)

Possible spoilers.
I'm giving this a 5 out of 10 because Ian McShane is always great in a film and because there are much worse films out there, but make no mistake, this is a terrible film and even worse as a sequel. I'm not going to spend an exorbitant amount of time here, but a review elsewhere on IMDb by Chance&Ru does a great job pointing out the reasons why this is a terrible movie. And before I get started, I did enjoy the first Wick movie for the most part.
Quick points: Major body count, but mostly just boring gun fights with faceless enemies meant as filler. Very little of the great hand-to-hand combat that was so enjoyable in the first Wick movie. Clearly the director was more interested in quantity than quality.
John Wick is a bada$$ in the first movie. So much so that mentioning his name invokes fear and he is called the Boogeyman. In this entry, no one is afraid of him, in fact, everyone is gunning for him. He even gets easily bested in a fight with Cassian before being saved due to falling into the Continental. Wick is winded and basically beaten when the fight stops and Cassian hasn't even broken a sweat.
He destroys his beloved car, which makes absolutely no sense. The Boogeyman we know from the first film would've taken out everyone in the garage before attracting their attention with the Mustang. Beyond that, Aurelio says he can fix it. Make no mistake, the Mustang is totaled. He wouldn't have driven that car anywhere, because among other things, there's no way the radiator wasn't destroyed, and there wasn't a salvageable panel on the car. Maybe they could've saved the rear-end, but in an overhead shot you can see clearly that the unibody is severely twisted. And what's up with the bumper-car scene where cars are just randomly, conveniently waiting to hit Wick's car and spin it in circles? Wow.
Wick is impervious to pain, gravity, broken bones and the limitations of the human body. He gets knocked out of the car at high velocity by the impact of another vehicle and stands up immediately. Insert eye roll here. He gets slammed to the ground from more than a few feet off the ground and it doesn't even knock the wind out of him. It doesn't phase him for a split second. Two rounds at point-blank through the stomach-area? No problem, doesn't slow him down a bit. House explodes and blows him out of the structure? He stands right back up as if an explosion of that magnitude has no concussive effect.
In New York City he can't walk for two minutes without being spotted by an enemy. If this section was intended as a time-lapse, it wasn't conveyed well in the movie at all, aside from the portion with the street musician and the sumo. Which goes back to an earlier point that suddenly no one remotely fears John Wick in this movie, aside from Abram.
I enjoyed the first chapter of John Wick, but after sitting through Chapter 2 (and believe me, I was tempted to shut it off within minutes), I certainly won't waste the time on Chapter 3, if it even gets made. The director should probably stick to his career as a stunt coordinator, as directing is clearly not his forte. Ditto for the writer. Did I mention how bad the writing and direction are? This a film that serves no purpose aside from a cash grab, or a possibly vanity project. The Wick character doesn't grow or evolve here and the "plot" (which consists of Wick being sent to kill someone by another someone to whom he is indebted to the tune of one favor, and then every hitperson in the world trying to kill him) is weak at best.