What’s Aged the Worst?
Henchmen firing point blank and missing, including Aries's crew while Wick holds up his coat; Jordan Hoffman's Guardian 'gun pornography' review; nobody saying Wick never could have outfought Santino
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- Not a lot: the point-blank shooting at John Wick in the cave, and the scene where Ruby Rose's Aries (as transcribed) and five people shoot at him while he holds his coat up as if it will stop bullets, which it theoretically does since it is bulletproof, but the part is not great.
- The other pick is Jordan Hoffman of The Guardian calling the film a shameful example of Hollywood gun pornography with a video-game aesthetic and only trace elements of a plot, wondering where the line of decency is; one voice agrees with everything except 'shameful', tells him to fuck right off, calls it a terrible take and the thing that has aged worst, and says not to go to John Wick 2 if you cannot handle violence.
- In the run-up the hosts had talked about approaching the film cautiously given the state of the world, but it turned out to be really fun; it is the 2019 Predator or Rambo 2, and taking it seriously is your own problem.
- One more small one: a missed opportunity for someone to say he never could have outfought Santino, since Santino dies undefeated; the lack of a love interest is fine because he is still mourning his wife with the Bridget Moynihan callback, Halle Berry may be something in three, and he pulls the knife out of Ruby Rose while leaving it in with Cassian.