film does find a novel way of dis-
patching a villain (see the use of a
horse’s hind legs), the movie is so
smugly satisfied it repeats the trick
- Jackie Chan is groaning some-
where.
The best scene in John Wick
2 involved Wick being stalked
through the NYC subway by an as-
sassin played by rapper Common.
What made it work so well was the
novel idea of both men attempt-
ing to fight without drawing at-
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tention from the surrounding New
Yorkers, thus keeping their clan-
destine world a secret. John Wick
3 dispenses this notion, with Wick
and his opponents making no ef-
fort to be discreet in their actions.
Wick kills several baddies in broad
daylight in a crowded Grand Cen-
tral Station, but none of the pass-
ersby seem to notice, even with
corpses strewn on the floor. When
Wick faces off against a giant ogre
of a man in the New York Public Li-
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