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Feb 9, 2017 · Yes, that’s right, I said greatness. No qualifiers necessary. “John Wick: Chapter Two” is truly wondrous, but it wouldn’t work without Reeves, who has a sincere love of this genre. Wick is not good at retiring. It’s easy to believe, as commented on by others in the film, that he’s addicted to the vengeance he dishes out with such ...
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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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 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 ...
Feb 9, 2017 · John Wick: Chapter 2 picks up where that film left off, with the legendary assassin John Wick (Keanu Reeves) settling into his newly re-earned retirement after taking out the entire Russian mob in New York City. That is, of course, until Wick has a favor called in by way of a Marker, a sacred oath of the High Table (the council governing all assassins around the world).
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John Wick: Chapter 2. 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 ...
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