The franchise has deflated.
There is practically no plot in the third installment. The film is similar to the screen version of a computer game, where the main character constantly destroying the units and then gets to the boss.
Chases, fights, shootouts, it looks like Justin Lin (director of 5th and 6th parts of "Fast and the Furious," where they destroyed the tank and crushed the city with a safe on the laces), but didn't try very hard, because the fights look ridiculous - the rivals are stupidly waiting for their fate getting ready for hits, kicks, shoots etc.
What was especially annoying is when JW was in a shootout with opponents of "enforced reinforced armor", having about two dozens of armor-piercing cartridges, spent 3-5 of them on each opponent, often wasting 3-4 bullets on an already dead body.
As I said, there is practically no plot, but what is in its place is full of holes, meaningless, predictable and hollow.
I am an old grouch, but the abundance of action in the film did not compensate for the lack of plot and ridiculous battles at all.
There is practically no plot in the third installment. The film is similar to the screen version of a computer game, where the main character constantly destroying the units and then gets to the boss.
Chases, fights, shootouts, it looks like Justin Lin (director of 5th and 6th parts of "Fast and the Furious," where they destroyed the tank and crushed the city with a safe on the laces), but didn't try very hard, because the fights look ridiculous - the rivals are stupidly waiting for their fate getting ready for hits, kicks, shoots etc.
What was especially annoying is when JW was in a shootout with opponents of "enforced reinforced armor", having about two dozens of armor-piercing cartridges, spent 3-5 of them on each opponent, often wasting 3-4 bullets on an already dead body.
As I said, there is practically no plot, but what is in its place is full of holes, meaningless, predictable and hollow.
I am an old grouch, but the abundance of action in the film did not compensate for the lack of plot and ridiculous battles at all.