Action Hero MoviesThe first 20 minutes of this video are a reminder of everything that was wrong with the last movie — pure mindless violence, with no plot or concept behind it. And that’s coming from a Keanu Reeves fan.
By 45 minutes in, Wick’s been given his mission and starts preparing for it, and we start to meet the woman he’s tasked with killing. Literally nothing else has happened in this movie yet. By an hour in, he’s done the job, and back at the hotel, drinking with the guy who was trying to kill him.
By 75 minutes in, there’s an open contract out on John Wick — every assassin in the network is not gunning for him, and things have just become interesting — but it took more than half the movie to get here, and that’s the length of a short movie in itself.
I’m going to rate this movie Below Average, on a par with the original and for all the same reasons.
85 minutes in we meet an overweight Laurence Fishburne in some kind of Matrix cast reuniting.