John Wick (2014)/John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)

[nialla42]

I'm very late to watching these, and still have the third one to watch, but was anyone else weirdly underwhelmed? There was tons of hype about it being a great action movie series, and don't get me wrong, there's some wonderful action sequences, fight coordination is on point, and the "look" of the films is a cool vaguely neo-noir, but I guess my

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[archersangel]

My brother will sometimes out on the first or second one if it's on TV and there's really nothing else to watch and i just don't get it. especially the whole vast network of people connected to the organization.
and what is the value of the gold coins? one gets him a room a the hotel. one also gets him into the bar in the hotel. but it's like 7 to have the cleaners some in to remove the bodies at his house.

[nialla42]

I kept hanging on the coins too. I assumed they were markers of some sort, sort of a "pre-paid" thing, perhaps with different denominations. I think I spent far too much time trying to figure it out than the writer did.

[green_grrl]

I figure I’ll watch these one of these days, so thank you for lowering my expectations in advance!

[nialla42]

It's actually making me feel better to see others who are baffled by these films. I think what really got me was they've been critically acclaimed, which is unusual for a generic action film. I guess they were blinded by Keanu and well choreographed fight sequences.

[superbadgirl]

No, they're completely stupid with excessive, glorified and unrealistic violence.

[nialla42]

I think the part that jumped out at me was there's all these very public mass shootings, and not a single cop shows up. We see one cop, who's on the payroll apparently. Sure, Jan.