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Exactly How Are We Supposed to Feel about Braxton?

posted a month ago by Jeepster (1167)
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Or more accurately how do YOU feel about Braxton? The beginning was a bit foggy to me when you see him for the first time with that Swiss guy. The speech he gave to him kinda made you think he was a good guy because he had an issue with him cheating people.

But stupid me, I didn’t realize this fully until I saw the movie again just last night of this writing but that had to have been HIS men that went after Dana. That Christian saved her from. He was working for Lamar, so Brax had to have been the one to order her murder. Doubt that they did this on their own. He also went after Frank & Dolores on their farm. Well that changes things as it makes him not a good guy but a scumbag in my opinion at least. He’s a calculating cold blooded murder that shouldn’t be giving NO ONE speech’s, if you ask me. You think Christian would’ve held it against him but I guess not.

Thing is he’s a cool dude and a good character but the way all of this pans out he’s as much a bad guy as anyone in this. Any thoughts?

[–] gantz8596 (205) 7 days ago

How do you feel about John Wick? Sure we got to see his heroic side, but the guy used to works for the largest criminal organization on the planet. And even after that the guy did goes on murder rampage all over the earth, sure he killed assassins mostly, but surely they can't all be bad?

The way I see it Braxton work for an underworld organization. Probably just a gear in a system. The men that guarding the house surely works with him but he didn't looked sad with their passing, one by one, just bothered.

Was he a bad man? Probably, yes. Were we supposed to judge him for that? I don't think it's that kind of movie.

[–] Jeepster (1167) 7 days ago

Well, as you said, Wick didn’t go after everybody, especially civilians. My biggest argument is Christian would have had a major problem with Braxton being behind Dana’s murder or attempted murder. Plus he would’ve already have known his own brother was behind that attempt. Oh well, maybe they hashed it out after the movie. Who knows.