John Wick is a big disappointment, in part I suppose because I erroneously inferred that since it was a trilogy and involved a contract killer in trouble because of his past it would be along the lines of the Bourne trilogy. Definitely not. There is nothing intelligent in this film at all. It's essentially a long concatenation of brutal homicides, all supposedly justified because some evil Russian mobster killed John's puppy and stole his 1970 Mustang. Really?

It's total overkill, literally and figuratively, and I cannot recommend this blood bath to anyone who does not spend hours a day playing push-button whack on whatever the latest mass-murder apps are being sponsored and promoted by the Pentagon these days (in the hopes of recruiting newbies for their drone program). Ugh.

Given the gross disproportionality of the revenge killing fest here, I'd say that the one redeeming quality of John Wick is that it is a perfect metaphor for the entire War on Terror. A handful of criminals kill 3,000 innocent people in NYC, so let's go annihilate another million or so!