Search results
INT. THE WICK HOME - THE KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS John unceremoniously tosses the newspaper onto the table, opens a cupboard, and measures out a couple of tablespoons of Folgers Coffee into an old percolator. As it begins to bubble, John open the fridge, studies its contents for a moment or two, and then closes it, abandoning the thought of breakfast.
Feb 16, 2017 · John Wick: Chapter 2 takes place quickly after the events of the first film and now our titular hitman is on the run as a bounty has been placed upon him by the Italian crime lord Santino D’Antonio.
Feb 8, 2017 · But for the most part, John Wick: Chapter 2 hinges on these displays of expertly choreographed violence in ways that mark it as the closest an American action film has ever come to the energy, style, and precision of a classic Hong Kong feature.
John Wick: Chapter 2 is bigger and more badass than its predecessor, as we found out in our review.
- Back in business.
- Verdict
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
Feb 8, 2017 · The Stahelski-directed sequel, John Wick: Chapter 2, ups the conceptual abstraction, sending the limb-snapping, pistol-toting hero on a symbolic journey through the afterlife, from Roman...
People also ask
Is John Wick Chapter 2 a good movie?
What is John Wick Chapter 2 about?
How violent is John Wick Chapter 2?
How many kills did John in 'Wick home' have?
Did Keanu Reeves really say he's back in John Wick?
What does John do when he tries on a jacket?
Feb 6, 2017 · Stahelski keeps large swaths of John Wick: Chapter 2 as non-verbal as possible, and his eye for unusual images, fully controlled sense of geography and spatial relationships, and mastery of...
