 The new John Wick sequel is in theaters this weekend and people are raving about it and it's leaving me wondering why people think that John Wick was a good movie. I saw it and recorded a video review of it back in 2014. I removed it from YouTube because it wasn't getting a lot of views and it wasn't contributing and I certainly don't want to see the new John Wick 2. So instead I've re-edited my review of the original film so you can see what I thought of it and why I thought it was so terrible. As you watch this keep in mind that I recorded this almost three years ago when the 2016 presidential election was still two years away. It starts with this John Wick character's wife dying. He goes to the hospital, he kisses her on the forehead as her EKG goes flat. These guys steal his car and kill his dog and it turns out he's a retired assassin and that was a big mistake. So see his revenge quest doesn't begin until they steal his sweet car and kill his dog. So that's the value level of this movie. The whole setup was done with all the subtlety and all the art of Friday the 13th movie. And the rest of the movie was basically like watching one of these GTA 5 gameplay videos on YouTube and I don't know what kind of secret assassin he was supposed to be because literally everybody knew his name, the concierge at the hotel, the bartender, everybody knew him on a first name basis and he was supposed to have been retired for I think five years. He would walk down the street in broad daylight in a suit and tie driving very noticeable classic hot rods. When he knew that the assassins were coming to get him he got out his guns and put on a suit and tie in his own house and just waited and then teams of him came started coming in the doors and windows and he just... There was a room full of guys with guns and not one of them ever fired a shot at him and then a cop came to the door. The lights were going, there was a knock on the door and it was obviously the local country cop because they knew each other. Even the cop knew the guy's name. He was like, hi John, got a complaint about noise and then the cop looks in the door and he sees dead guys all over the floor and he says, well, I'll leave you to it. That was the only cop in the movie. That was the only time any law enforcement or authorities appeared in the movie at all. His dead wife for a time was the only woman in the movie, the only. And then the second woman that showed up who was the only other woman in the movie was another assassin and she was very quickly labeled as being untrustworthy among assassins. Even the other assassins found her untrustworthy. She was the one who was so unscrupulous that she didn't follow the code, the assassin's code or whatever. She didn't follow the rules. Later on in the movie there was even a special scene, a special scene just for her to show the other assassins executing her for not following the rules. The only woman in the movie was executed for not following the rules and they were all assassins. Out of all the assassins, she was the one that was singled out for punishment by the assassin management. I guess you would call it. They didn't say anything about this but it became obvious he would not kill women. He would not shoot women. He would be running through the nightclub with all these other men shooting at him and out to get him and he would not open fire on the crowd because there were women dancing all over the place. He wouldn't shoot as long as there were women in the way. There was a scene where he busted open the doors to a vault and there were two women counting money in there and he told them get out and they squealed and trotted past him and he turned his back on them. This guy was supposed to be a professional stone cold assassin who was always looking out for people to kill him and he never paid any notice at all to women other than to not shoot them because obviously women are inconsequential and not dangerous. When he got into a fight with this one female assassin, she was working him over because number one he was injured but number two he wouldn't fight her and he finally got her turned around and everything and he pulled back his fist but he wouldn't punch her in the face. He would not punch her in the face. He stopped. This is so crazy. I've never seen anything like this. He stopped. He pulled a sheet off the bed. He wrapped a sheet around her head and then punched her in the face. The filmmakers, they made this film about men killing each other left and right, blood everywhere, bullets, knives all over the place, snapping each other's necks and then he wouldn't film a man punching a woman in the face but he would do it if her face was covered so you couldn't see her face. It was the craziest thing. I've never seen anything like that. So he's got her knocked out and he runs into another assassin in the hallway in the hotel and he says to the guy, you want to make a gold coin? Here, take care of this. He turns her over to some other guy. He won't shoot her in the head. He has her down. He has a gun. He won't shoot her in the head like he's shot every other assassin in the head without hesitation. I've never seen anything like this. And speaking of gold coins, it really was a video game. Every time these assassins would complete a job or every time they would call the cleaner to come pick up a body, they would exchange a gold coin. They would say, kill a guy, bang, get a gold coin. That can't be coincidental. That had to have been thought out and intentional. And of course, he basically had superpowers. He could take bullets and stab wounds left and right and never die and he would fire off a couple of bullets and every man in the room would fall down dead instantly. I didn't find it enjoyable even in a silly kind of way. The last time I remember seeing one of these revenge movies, I think was the first Taken movie, the first Liam Neeson Taken film. And I remember liking that one because it was about justice. It was about, you know, getting a certain, accomplishing a certain thing, getting something done. He was a good guy. Well, he was an assassin, but he was a government assassin. This movie, the Keanu Reeves character, John Wick, because that's the name of the movie, there was nothing sympathetic about him. He's a murderer. He was a professional murderer. He was an assassin. I didn't care about him. I don't care what happens to him. I don't care if he gets revenge for his dead puppy. I don't care about his car. I don't care. He's a murderer. People who become assassins are bad people. See, here's the thing. It just made me sad because it made me think that this is what real life is going to be like. Really, from now on. Everybody has guns. Everybody's looking for a fight. Everybody's looking to kill somebody. There's no law enforcement to be found anywhere. I got home and I turned on the computer and the first thing I saw was Donna Barr, the cartoonist on Facebook, posted a friend of hers asked her if she'd heard about the shooting. And she had to ask him which one. That's what it is. Every day will be a playthrough of GTA V that will be our lives. And as long as we're only seeing it happen to other people on TV, it won't be real to us. So I'm going to turn off the camera now.