While it is satisfying to see the joyful murder of neo nazis, this sequel doesn't really hold up to the first movie. It feels lazy and rushed to cash in while the brand is hot and establishes the foundation of another franchise to milk dry. The first Becky was a person with a family that underwent traumatic changes even before the violence took place in a sort of Kafkaesque twist. This Becky is a watered out Rorschach character (although suggestively leftist rather than crypto fascist) and Jane Wick weapons magician with the motivation to what... Be a free agent killing machine running away from foster homes and working minimum wage jobs?

The innocent girl cum righteous psychopath is not new and is not enough of a device in itself, something that the directors seem to vaguely recognize. The movie tries out various directions but doesn't commit to much any of them. A little bit of splattery ultra violence, a little bit over the top, a little bit of ingenious McGyvery trap making, a little bit of comics reference and another little bit of this and that and the other. It's like a market test for what will stick for the next four movies and the animated series. Even the nursery rhyme from the first movie is repeated as a calling card, except here it makes no sense, to reappear in every single future iteration.

It's almost puzzling how many balls were dropped in this production. There were so many opportunities to give some depth but everything just rolls away, like a committee of writers that discard each others ideas halfway through and settle with the most bland monolith that lacks any kind of tension.

And seriously, [spoiler]fucking *coordinates*[/spoiler] was the best you'd come up with? It would have been better to just keep it a mystery.

It still manages to entertain, so I'll raise it to a six.