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Mel Gibson, Katie McGrath, Colin Woodell, Mishel Prada, Ben Robson, Hubert Point-Du Jour, Peter Greene, Jeremy Bobb, Adam Shapiro, Jessica Allain, Kate Nhung (more)VOD (1)
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Brothers in Arms (E01)
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Loyalty to the Master (E02)
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Theatre of Pain (E03)
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The three-part event will explore the origin behind the iconic hotel-for-assassins centerpiece of the John Wick universe through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott, as he’s dragged into the Hell-scape of 1970’s New York City to face a past he thought he’d left behind. Winston charts a deadly course through the hotel’s mysterious underworld in a harrowing attempt to seize the hotel where he will eventually take his future throne. (Peacock)
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To take the excellent, years-built, almost flawless world of John Wick and fill it with this unoriginal and generic shit, it takes talent. Because Hotel Continental can't even hit average in one respect. Either through boring characters, both on the bad guys side (where no one is worth mentioning and Mel Gibson is an NPC) or on the "good guys" side (where no one is interesting enough or has the required background or charisma), or through extremely boring filler, or, last but not least, through terribly boring action that doesn't even come close to Wick's, where the cinematography follows the usual style, but doesn't stand out and there is no dynamics, choreography or brutality at all. So I actually ask myself, why should I rate it higher? Since in almost five hours of (tedious) running time I haven't found a single good thing, a single memorable scene, a single good action sequence or character that I'll remember tomorrow, it's amazing how relatively well this garbage is rated. To screw up the best action franchise of all time like this deserves a lifetime ban from making anything else. Boring.
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The John Wick universe, where cool gunslingers shoot headshots and perform gun-fu, just like John Wick, in a dark visual stylization like John Wick. The production design is properly neo-noir and the soundtrack is full of bangers. The only problem is that John Wick himself isn't even there for a minute, and the characters that are "in his place" are either completely generic with no appeal or have too little space. The only reliably workable link is Mel Gibson as the alpha bad guy. There is no need for another spin-off like this and an attempt to create a Wick world.
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