Not a single thing has an actual or coherent meaning, everything is done only to gratify the viewer: the story, fights, characters. Aesthetically pleasant, the script is made of bits, videogame levels. A grocery list with all the parts from the former chapter that they wished to re-present, inserted as a muddle around which the movie is built. I don't watch action movies for a sophisticated philosophical plot, but Chapter 1 had a structure and you could tag along John's reasons. Here they wanted to get rid of the pretext as quickly as possible to get back to the main course, with the result that everything gets dumbed down by an order of magnitude. Most of John's choices don't make any sense if not to create cool fighting moments. Infinite ammo, endless injuries and hits creating no lasting damage, waves after waves of henchmen falling like dominoes, rough-edged characters who speak in catchphrases
Saying "fights are dope" should be an added value of a solid action flick with a simple yet mostly believable plot, not the only purpose to which the storyline itself, characters and dialogues are sacrificed.
Those praising it as one of the best sequels ever make me once more question the sanity of some viewers
Review by Snowy_CapHaddockBlockedParent2023-03-25T21:47:18Z
Not a single thing has an actual or coherent meaning, everything is done only to gratify the viewer: the story, fights, characters.
Aesthetically pleasant, the script is made of bits, videogame levels. A grocery list with all the parts from the former chapter that they wished to re-present, inserted as a muddle around which the movie is built.
I don't watch action movies for a sophisticated philosophical plot, but Chapter 1 had a structure and you could tag along John's reasons. Here they wanted to get rid of the pretext as quickly as possible to get back to the main course, with the result that everything gets dumbed down by an order of magnitude.
Most of John's choices don't make any sense if not to create cool fighting moments. Infinite ammo, endless injuries and hits creating no lasting damage, waves after waves of henchmen falling like dominoes, rough-edged characters who speak in catchphrases
Saying "fights are dope" should be an added value of a solid action flick with a simple yet mostly believable plot, not the only purpose to which the storyline itself, characters and dialogues are sacrificed.
Those praising it as one of the best sequels ever make me once more question the sanity of some viewers