Similar issues to the first two movies - both the story and the fights have good ideas but are too ill-defined to make good use of them. The story has the cool lore, but flubs it at every turn with characters who love or hate John for no particular reason, often flipping between them for no reason too, bizarre plot-holes and lack of logic to anyone's actions. The fights have some cool ideas, moreso than in the previous movies (super-trained assassin dogs! A multi-storey glass penthouse fight area! Horses as weapons!) but don't make use of them, or else insist on long single takes with Reeves, Berry et al, leading to everything feeling half-speed and opponents waiting for their cues, like we're watching the rehearsals. Assorted silly things complete the insubstantial nonsense feeling, like CG blood, massacres going unnoticed in busy public areas, horses' super-kick action being activated with a pat on the rump, people jumping from their own motorbike to a fellow attacker's for no reason yet getting three of them killed in the process, and people managing to do that disappearing by panning behind something trick in a *room made of glass*.
Action movies don't need to have complex plots or realistic action - Desperado is magnificent without either - but the John Wick movies aim for them and fail at both.
Rating: Bad
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