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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 ...
Feb 9, 2017 · Chapter 2 picks up right where the original left off and continues the story, and the style, and the overall John Wick–iness of the whole thing so effortlessly that it basically plays like the ...
Mar 3, 2016 · Release Date: 03 Mar 2016. Original Title: John Wick: Chapter Two. Of all the characters Keanu Reeves has played since hanging up Neo’s sunglasses a decade and change ago, it’s probably fair ...
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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 inch-deep narrative and occasional dumb movie moments (including one whopper in the middle of the film that took this viewer clean out of the rest of the picture) stopped John Wick from being ...
Feb 10, 2017 · John Wick: Chapter 2 is the sequel to the surprise 2014 sleeper hit John Wick, which impressed many viewers with its "gun-fu" action sequences and sense of world-building reminiscent of comic book universes. Though the first film was a relatively straightforward action film, several saw the potential for a great franchise due to these various elements, and hoped the followup could deliver on ...
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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 ...
