• There was basically no intro or outro to frame any part of the action.
  
• Some scenes in NYC in particular the Bowery King bits and some other first act material seem like they had sound mixing and framing issues. Lots of medium shots that would've worked in close-up or vice-versa. John's final "execution" and tumble were another point where the shooting was suddenly weak.
  
• Big weird plot thing The Elder? Out of nowhere the Global Crime Government has an overarching leader instead of being a shadowy criminal mutual distrust pact. The dude is suddenly introduced in functionally mystical terms, effectively is the most powerful person on earth, and he's random Appropriative Bedouin Actor #238? Why...did they need to do this? Why not just have Wick meet with another adjudicator, or a high table member, or something?
  
• Many elements lacked the strong overarching symbolism and themes of 2. I got some dogs/hunters/beasts metaphors, but still.
  
• Similarly, while fights were still great, they felt more gimmicky and closer to "what resources/locations/objects do we have on our brainstorming list"?
  
• Plotwise it's weird that they've got the protagonist just openly completely outclassed by several opponents who basically let him keep getting back up until he kills them. Once I can understand, but it happens five or so times in a row. Not referring to the Raid lads, that had some sort of explanation.
  
• I loved the long shots, smooth tracking, and consistent, extensive, pulse-pounding combat of 2 most of all, and there was a lot less of that sort of work going into combat scenes this time- even in scenes with Reeves.
  
• Seconding the faceless mook issues. I'm relatively new to CineD, but I'm sure y'all have gone into the lack of identification and expression that "everyone in identical masks and jumpsuits" creates.
  

Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 14:48 on May 26, 2019

• At some point in 2 it's explicitly stated there are 12 seats at the High Table. This is in part to reflect the hercules/pantheon imagery the film has going.
  
• My understanding is that Santino is not a High Table member until he takes his sister's position. It's always bugged me that Santino hiring John (through a Marker no less) to kill a High Table member didn't seem to cause any blowback for Santino. I guess the idea is Wick never tells anyone why he made the kill, or, now that Santino is a Table member, might makes right and they don't care?
  

• Coins are used, or at least sought, by everyone under the Table, including the Bowery King's agents. Killers aren't the only people who use the coins, though they heavily flow into Continental hotels. We see Winston inspecting a set of these coins in 2. There doesn't seem to be a context in which the Continental pays people in coins, so I am under the impression these aren't freshly minted coins, but instead the Continental's takings. Some of the deleted scenes from 2 further confuse this, as the boxes the coins appear in also seem significant.
  
• Like everything else, the Continental does seem to maintain a barely meaningful facade of normality. Presumably it's possible for me to get a room there, if I were completely oblivious and rich.
  
• It's pretty notable that actual payment for contracts under the Continental system is in cash, not coins. It's likely that agents of crime lords get given coins for their own use.