Slightly entertaining (very slightly), but ridiculous and silly....

Rating: 3/10 (24 February 2017)

I went to this movie with a friend who likes mindless action movies, so I wasn't expecting much more than that.
"John Wick 2" was even more silly than I expected, however.
First of all, John Wick is essentially invulnerable. Bullets do not harm him, nor do endless blows and stabs to every part of his body. He is sort of like you combined Bruce Lee with Superman....except with guns....and endless choreographed fight scenes that feel more like dancing than fighting. I guess it is OK that Wick is invulnerable, but it makes kind of a boring movie. You know that no matter what odds are stacked against him, he will still come out on top. And he does. Yawn.
And the odds are stacked. My buddy and I estimated that Wick killed between 50 and 100 people in the movie. It may have even been higher than that.
Also the "secret guild of assassins" premise is beyond ridiculous. Apparently, every person on the street in New York City is a clandestine, bad-ass assassin.... Who knew? Don't they run out of people to assassinate?
I am capable of "suspending disbelief"....but the more I dissect this film, I cannot escape the fact that it was just stupid and silly.
Yeah...I'm pondering it all now. "John Wick 2" sucked. No nice way to put it.
But hey, my buddy liked it. I guess people like him must account for some of the positive reviews.