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Feb 9, 2017 · “John Wick: Chapter Two” is a more audacious film, bolder and more violent than its predecessor. It’s also surprisingly hilarious, wringing humor from physical pratfalls and dry wit in unexpected moments.
Feb 10, 2017 · Retired super-assassin John Wick's plans to resume a quiet civilian life are cut short when Italian gangster Santino D'Antonio shows up on his doorstep with a gold marker, compelling him to repay...
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By Mike Rougeau
Updated: May 2, 2017 6:45 pm
Posted: Feb 9, 2017 12:15 am
There’s a pivotal scene in the original John Wick where Keanu Reeves as the title character tells Michael Nyqvist’s Viggo Tarasov, a Russian crime leader against whose son Wick desires vengeance, that he’s “back.” Wick had retired, but due to no fault of his own has been dragged back into the criminal underworld.
He didn’t really mean it though. At the end he gets a new dog and walks off into the night, and if there were no John Wick: Chapter 2 that would have been the last we ever saw of John Wick.
But there is, and in John Wick: Chapter 2 there’s yet another pivotal scene in which John Wick, once again, states with vehemence and conviction that he’s back. This time he means it.
John Wick: Chapter 2 expands on the original’s lore while not giving away too many underworld secrets. Common and Ruby Rose bring their A-games as foils to Reeves’ Wick, who has somehow become an icon of action hero purity after just two films. Dragged down only slightly by a lack of resolution and less of the original’s aura of hushed mystery, Joh...
- Mike Rougeau
John Wick: Chapter 2 does exactly what good sequel should: it replicates aspects of the original while also expanding its mythology through a measure of novelty and one-upmanship.
Feb 6, 2017 · The thriller about a former professional assassin who reluctantly emerges from retirement to exact revenge against some mercilessly misguided Russian mobsters capitalized on an energetic visual...
Feb 15, 2017 · Like the original film, John Wick: Chapter Two requires a hefty suspension of disbelief: many of its bloody murders take place in public places, but no one ever seems to report them....
Feb 9, 2017 · Chapter 2 has a harder task, because John—however reluctantly—repays an old debt by performing a hit on someone who clearly doesn’t deserve it. On a pure, visceral level, this is...
