re: finally saw John Wick

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Yeah, I love the fact that the reason Wick is such a badass is not because he's the biggest, or strongest, or fastest, or most well trained, but that he is possessed of a singular will. Viggo says that early on.

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That was actually one of my plot problems. If he's such a badass, why does he just let three guys beat the shite out of him to begin with. He doesn't even fight back. The director should have had one of them draw a gun. Maybe he did, but I didn't see it.

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This is only after he's put a hit on Wick, after Wick has escaped all the traps, after Wick has escaped being killed by another master-assassin, after he has basically shite on Viggo's entire empire, and after Wick has a shotgun pointed at the dude's chest, knowing the whole time that he doesn't really like his son very much since he's a frick up and that Wick, even if Viggo doesn't tell him where his son is, will find him eventually precisely because he knows Wick is possessed of a singular will. When you think about it, Viggo did a shite ton to stop Wick, but realized the inevitable.

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I don't care who you are or what the situation is. No parent is just going to offer his kid up like that, especially knowing that he himself will likely be killed in any event. I suppose you could argue that he believed the bodyguards would kill Wick, but a) he could always have lied to him about where his son was and b) after all that had already happened, he had little reason to believe that his son would survive, regardless of how many goons he had around him.