Two episodes in of what will be three total. 130+ mins of stuff.
There is a grand total of one action sequence, early in episode one, that could be in a John Wick movie. But even that would probably be one of the worst in all of the action sequences of the franchise.
Mel Gibson is the main villain, but it is nothing to write home about.
The guy they got to play young Winston was a good pick. Some of his backstory with his brother is decent.
And that is pretty much it. You get to see a pair of tits, but even that is nothing memorable.
In return for this very short list of kind of positives you get to have a lot of angry and ugly women beating or overpowering men, sometimes several. There aren't really much in terms of badass men after the first episode either. In a John Wick spinoff...
It feels like they are trying to make Charon gay, but did not really commit to it. The guy playing him also doesn't at all feel like he could grow older to become Lance Reddick (RIP). There is a lot of talk, but it does not feel like they have really expanded the lore in any meaningful way. A lot of characters talk a lot, and you will care about very little of those characters and all the talking going on.
There is a drag queen in the first episode, played by an IRL drag queen, but I only noticed this in the credits.
There is probably more to mention, but I cannot be bothered any more.
It's not worth your time. You are better off rewatching any of the movies, even the one you like the least.
If you liked John Wick and want to see more of that kind of thing, you oughta watch The Equalizer movie series with Denzel Washington.
Or the movie Nobody with Bob Odenkirk.
Neither one IMO are as good as John Wick 1, but they're good in their own way. And they sound way better than The Continental.
I gotta add "Sisu" to that list. Total kick-ass action from start to finnish.
Sisu looked right up my alley with the trailer... just until I saw it was another "nazis" bad movie, and some stronk Jewish women fighting back against their "oppressors".
It was a hard "nope" from me by the time the trailer ended.