All Show, No Substance

Rating: 3/10 (10 February 2019)

This movie aspires to be a video game. It shows a man trying to get from point A to point B while killing any person who stands in his way. In this regard, it mimics the features of an assassin video game very well. If that's your thing, you'll probably enjoy this movie. You'll enjoy the photography, the props, the sets, the lighting and the action sequences.
But as a narrative film, the Wick films are some of the worst drivel to ever make it through the production process. The scenarios are cartoonishly detached from any social logic, characters are one-dimensional puppets, and almost every line of dialogue is cringe-worthy nonsense. The word "preposterous" doesn't quite capture just how absurd these films are.
The success of these films is a puzzle fit for an oracle. There are media more appropriate for the Wick murder rituals, like video game platforms. Who knows, maybe "horrible film" is now a kind of post-millennial genre.