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The interesting thing about this to me is how so many people in the movie just seem to be looking for the excuse to be violent. Hutch (Bob Odenkirk) says he decided he wanted out of the assassin biz, to have a happy life, but it seems like he was really happy when he decided he had an excuse to get violent. After he makes his pitch to the Russian mob guy, he goes out to his car and sits there, fingers crossed, watching in the rearview mirror. I wasn't sure whether he was hoping Yulian would stop or keep pushing this, but by the end, I'm positive he wanted Yulian to refuse to let it go. So he could kill him and all his guys.

Yulian takes a question about whether he's hardcore enough to run this club that launders all this money as an excuse to break a martini glass and carve up half of some random guy's face with it. Like I said, Hutch gives him opportunities to take money and go live peacefully somewhere, and Yulian won't do it. He wants to kill him. Hutch's dad (played by Christopher Lloyd, weird I watched two recent movies with him in such a short amount of time), admits he tried retirement, but he really missed shooting a lot of people. 

(I laughed at, 'You brought a lot of shotguns.' 'Well, you brought a lot of Russians.')

In John Wick, there is certainly the sense that John's been repressing what he truly is (or made himself over the course of years), and the loss of his wife, the killing of the puppy, is all he needed to stop holding back. But there is an actual loss, and he is focused on the one responsible.

Hutch was willing to let the burglars take the money and even punch his son in the face. Then, when his daughter (the one member of his family that seems to respect him) says her cat bracelet is missing, then he decides he's going to do something. And when the resolution of that is unsatisfying, he deliberately picks a fight with six shithead Russian gangsters. They were undoubtedly going to harm the young woman on the bus, but he had a loaded gun. He could have just scared them off with it. Instead, he draws it, empties, and just fights them.

It was a good fight, though. The violence is highly entertaining. I was slightly disappointed the final big shootout didn't involve more use of the machine shop tools. You know, run a guy's arm through a jigsaw or throw their head in a hydraulic press, stuff like that. It seemed like that kind of movie. I enjoyed the bit at the tattoo parlor when the guy gets behind the door with about twenty locks and deadbolts. 

It's just funny to me that the movie pretty much dispenses with any notion these guys are settling a score or that it's a matter of honor. They're all just looking for an excuse to go hog wild.