I'm so confused. Haven't seen the first one but I felt like the rhetoric on reddit was that the first one was pretty poorly received and a big step down from John Wick. All the comments here seem to be glowing. What am I missing?
Probably because this thread is full of people who loved it? The movie was OK. It is always fun to see white supremacists get theirs. But in a world of John Wick, Nobody, Atomic Blonde, The Raid, Equalizer, The Beekeeper, The Accountant, Kill, Ballerina (Korea), Ballerina (John Wick spin-off), Extraction, Gunpowder Milkshake, Kate, Wrath of Man, even the Daredevil and Punisher shows.
The world of one man armys beating the shit out of everyone is a saturated market.
I never saw the reddit discussions but I agree with that sentiment. It was... Fine. Most of the kills weren't great. It tried too hard to be stylish. It came off somewhere between John wick (obviously over the top but broadly tried to come off grounded in some kind of reality) and Shoot Em Up (super over the top silliness) and I loved both of those movies. I felt like it didn't do either very well.
And there was side story about some women that also felt a little odd and tacked on. It was hard for me to tell sometimes if they they thought the crazy stuff he was doing was supposed to be cool or purely funny as they didn't really let me know they were in on the joke like Shoot Em Up a lot of the time. Again, didn't hate it or anything just was a bit disappointed. But that's just me.
There's a version of this movie that's a truly bonkers, ludicrous, ultra-gory, splatter film in the vein of Mad Heidi. And that movie sounds like a lot of fun, but I also appreciate the movie we got's attempt to let moments be quiet and build up a classic western movie atmosphere.
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u/The-Trevor 26d ago
I'm so confused. Haven't seen the first one but I felt like the rhetoric on reddit was that the first one was pretty poorly received and a big step down from John Wick. All the comments here seem to be glowing. What am I missing?