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Casper gives opinion and reviews John Wick: Chapter 2. Directed by Chad Stahelski. Starring Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ian McShane, Ruby Rose, and Com...
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My review of the thrilling and action packed sequel, John Wick: Chapter 2(2017) starring Keanu Reeves, Common, Laurence Fishburne, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ruby R...
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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...
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Feb 6, 2017 · The global scale of John Wick: Chapter 2 is imperative to the movie’s success. Despite the first film just taking place in-between New York and New Jersey, the scope of it felt massive. Between ...
Feb 6, 2017 · In a film that does so much with so little dialogue, his overly wordy scene slows things down to a near standstill and – the fun of the mini- Matrix reunion aside – is the only wrong move in ...
Feb 11, 2017 · FILM REVIEW: John Wick: Chapter 2 – ‘An Exceptional Piece of Action Filmmaking’. John Wick is not only one of the greatest action film of the last two decades, it is also one of my favorite ...
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Feb 16, 2017 · John Wick: Chapter 2 is no different, however, for as a sequel it certainly is a perfectly adequate follow-up to a wonderful throwback to what we loved most when we watched action films. In some sense it does exactly what the first film already did but it still carries the appeal with such ease and provides only what could ever be most expected of this sort of experience, a pure definition of ...
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