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The action scenes have become farcical


Much like the Fast and furious franchise the action scenes have devolved into ridiculous over the top nonsense. The only way this would be believable is if the character was superhuman. Otherwise Wick should be in a full body cast or on life support.

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He didn't seem superhuman to me, but everyone else seem too incompetent. Also nobody would go to the final shootout spot so directly through the street, stairs etc, it was simply suicide. He was also so many times lying on the ground beaten, it takes just one lucky bullet.
And if the opponent bends rules all the time and sends many men after him, why not send one sniper after him, he didn't deserve a fair fight anyway.
Nevertheless still good to watch if you turn off your brain.

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You do not think getting hit by cars several times where his hip should be broken into 2000 little bones but not having any problems does not make him superhuman?

I could not turn off my brain enough to enjoy this because the few films I generally did not have to. In this film I had to turn it off from the start. Absolutely 0 explanation of how Cane could see without eyes. Sometimes it affected him sometimes it did not. The use of the automatic doorbells was great except that he did not need that as he could still see.

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Well he probably had some "small" breaks, many smaller injuries. I myself had quite many injuries during sports, motorcycles, crashes, but never anything big, I always could walk away.
But ok, not saying it all seemed completely normal.

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Indeed it really took me out of a lot of sequences.

The movie I felt was also too long. Like they could have cut 40 mins of it and still tell the same story.

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Thanks for the heads up.

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