Exact same as the first one, so it lost a little freshness. Pretty good action scenes, and the whole way the underworld works, the most - only ? - original bit of the series, is still interesting. John can't enjoy his retirement and is brought back into more mass killings. Although wtf with the intro scene ? OK on the first movie for the dog, but he still go massacring people for the car, even chasing the fleeing ones. All for a car that he voluntarily destroy one minute after getting it back. He's not a desperate hero wanting out, he's a psychopath addicted to murder.
Action is still ok though it abuses on cut and mixed scenes making some sequences just random exchanges of punches and bullets with no coherence whatsoever instead of interesting intelligible fights. Scenario is all "you have no choice but to kill, but then I have no choice to try to kill you and so you have no choice but to try to kill me but then because of that a whole bunch of other people have to kill you". That's life, nobody can do anything about that, so let's just all kill each other. Except for the kill in the hotel. He clearly had the capacity to do it otherwise. Why choose to lose his only safe ally and have the whole underworld after him ? Unless he's a psychopath addicted to murder of course.
The whole Laurence Fishburne sequence is totally useless, all that to get a gun ? Like he didn't had 3000 other possibilities ? Clearly just to add a name to the cast.
Review by FLYVIP 2BlockedParent2017-12-10T21:07:55Z
Exact same as the first one, so it lost a little freshness. Pretty good action scenes, and the whole way the underworld works, the most - only ? - original bit of the series, is still interesting. John can't enjoy his retirement and is brought back into more mass killings. Although wtf with the intro scene ? OK on the first movie for the dog, but he still go massacring people for the car, even chasing the fleeing ones. All for a car that he voluntarily destroy one minute after getting it back. He's not a desperate hero wanting out, he's a psychopath addicted to murder.
Action is still ok though it abuses on cut and mixed scenes making some sequences just random exchanges of punches and bullets with no coherence whatsoever instead of interesting intelligible fights. Scenario is all "you have no choice but to kill, but then I have no choice to try to kill you and so you have no choice but to try to kill me but then because of that a whole bunch of other people have to kill you". That's life, nobody can do anything about that, so let's just all kill each other. Except for the kill in the hotel. He clearly had the capacity to do it otherwise. Why choose to lose his only safe ally and have the whole underworld after him ? Unless he's a psychopath addicted to murder of course.
The whole Laurence Fishburne sequence is totally useless, all that to get a gun ? Like he didn't had 3000 other possibilities ? Clearly just to add a name to the cast.