A_Different_Drummer
Joined Jun 2013
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This review done in 2025, 20 years in the future. You wouldn't like it here. The world has changed ... a lot. Ditto for TV. Modern TV seems to prefer educating viewers rather than entertaining them. So your reviewer was watching reruns of CSI and came upon this gem, a 2-part finale directed by QT himself. Almost cinema quality -- which these days, here in the future, 2025, is a pretty low bar. Your grandparents were right. Things were better back then, when people took pride in their work. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))
This is experimental cinema... a hodgepodge of various genres and styles based entirely on the imagination of the creator ... nothing wrong with that. In the 1960s, for example, the brilliant Sergio Leone accidentally created an entirely new class of film which HAD NEVER EXISTED BEFORE -- the "Italian western." Not merely a financial success -- it turned a failed, out-of-work, actor named Clint Eastwood into a Hollywood icon. Does lightening strike twice? Not here, it doesn't. Sorry. The rating is for technical merit only. The film itself will put you to sleep. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))
Critics have noted, correctly, that the core premise of the films in the Wick-a-verse is that there exists a world where every second person you run into on the street is a professional assassin, and there is nothing odd or strange about that. This particular film takes that astonishing premise one step further. Namely, that someone had the money and the time to produce a film as grandiose as the other Wick entries but, oddly, did not want to have Reeves star --- and instead went with a female lead. And a really really bad script. For this reviewer, that was a bridge too far, and I gave up at the halfway point. Hundreds of my reviews speak to the need for connection, getting the viewer involved. None of that here. Not a whisker. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))