Most of the interminable mob fight scenes feature Wick unloading magazine after magazine of bullets into the heads of his enemies. But the action's over-the-top bloodletting becomes a kind of monotone. These films are meant to be adrenaline highs, "action from start to finish," and that's true in a sense. This was most consistently pronounced in the second film, but most grotesquely so in the third. The biggest and most disgusting problem with John Wick is its inhuman violence. The film scored an improbable 89% Fresh on RottenTomatoes, better than the 87% of the first film, and the critical consensus was that everyone should shut up and allow themselves to mindlessly escape, to disregard the plot holes because it was "crazily entertaining," (Arizona Republic). It offered "more cohesive doses of ferocious thrills" than its CGI-infused counterparts, (IndieWire). The mind-numbing gun fights were "like a dance," (MTV News) "some of the most elegant action since the 1980s," (The Age).
John Wick Chapter 2 (2017), for example, was pronounced "more audacious, bolder and more violent" than its predecessor (). Its gleeful excesses - the particulars of which I'll touch on below - will no doubt receive the same herdlike rave reviews that the first two did. The franchise's unbearable third installment, John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum, (the latin phrase meaning "prepare for war"), opens Friday in wide release. It is impossible to enjoy even as pure fantasy, yet it remains beloved by the country's savviest culture critics, who were smitten by the simplicity of a man going on a killing spree to avenge his dog, (the plot of 2014's John Wick). Its deranged narrative architecture, the central plank of which is that roughly half of the world's population, and all of its homeless people, belong to secretive, hierarchical associations of assassins, is hands-down the dumbest ever conceived. It stars a bruised and grunting Keanu Reeves as a retired hit man and features some of the most senseless, brutal, boring fight choreography in the history of cinema. John Wick is a hyper-violent action franchise about men's fashion and pet ownership in New York City.
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