John Wick: Chapter 2
(2017)Never stab the devil in the back.
Keanu Reeves returns to deliver bullet vengeance in this sequel to the glorious 2014 hit. After his previous stint that racked up a tremendously high body count, John Wick catches the attention of a former associate. Bound by a blood oath to help him, Wick heads to Rome for more no-nonsense butt-kicking. Chad Stahelski, co-director of the first, also returns, as do co-stars Ian McShane and Lance Reddick - alongside new entrants Lawrence Fishburne, Common and Ruby Rose.
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Directed by Chad Stahelski
Starring Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Ruby Rose, Lance Reddick, Peter Stormare, Common, Laurence Fishburne, John Leguizamo
Written by Derek Kolstad
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John Wick: Chapter 2
BY OscarSM superstar
Action packed and thrilling from start to end this is a must watch if you're a fan of the action genre and it is a superb follow up worthy of the outstanding original. There isn't much wrong with this, it's pretty fantastic. Keanu Reeves does a great job in the lead role and the rest of the cast are great too. It's witty, punchy, and delivers well.
BY Sam-Cray grader
Such a good sequel, can't wait for the final film in the trilogy. Solid film.
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BY Alissa-Warren superstar
A film that doesn't pretend to be anything else then a complete killing spree with no pointless love interest/slash sex scene to interfere with the sheer chaotic insanity that is 'John Wick' everything you loved from the first but glossier and more intense, dialed up a notch or two. Film made for Keanu as I couldn't see any other actor in the title role, if you are looking for pure escapist violence this is definitely the film for you
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The Press Reviews
Keanu Reeves is back to shoot heads and glower in the inevitable follow-up to the 2014 surprise hit, John Wick. Full Review
As badass B-movies go, this really gets the blood pumping. Full Review
What a stupendously entertaining ride it is. Full Review
A brutal, bruising bullet ballet of a sequel that builds upon the promise of the original. Full Review
Once again, Reeves does not disappoint, fully inhabiting Wick by channeling his rage over life’s injustices into an intensely focused performance. Full Review
There’s a quality to the violence here that elevates it above the literal (and reprehensible) nihilism of movies like last year’s “Hardcore Henry,” and instead achieves something more akin to dance. Full Review
Chapter 2 will pass a Friday or Saturday night as mindlessly as its predecessor. Full Review
Everything an action fan could wish for. Full Review
BY Aaron Yap Flicks Writer
One could easily argue John Wick didn’t need a Chapter 2. This sleeper hit was a crystalline model of B-movie simplicity, a sleek, pleasingly straightforward, self-contained revenge actioner that blessed Keanu Reeves with a career-jump-starting role. But the film’s tantalising, comic booky world-building elements were hard to ignore, teasing at the potential of exploring the larger universe around its characters.... More
Three years later this visibly upsized sequel does just that, amplifying its secret-society-of-assassins premise to the next appropriate level. It’s a more audacious, visually adventurous effort, matching expertly choreographed knife-to-the-balls Wickian ultraviolence with strikingly Baroque, even hallucinatory, mise-en-scène. Few action films can evoke the neon-glazed urbanity of Michael Mann one minute, and conjure the Gothic spectre of Countess Bathory next.
Perhaps peppered with more franchise-expanding breadcrumb droppings than necessary, Chapter 2 can occasionally feel a little underbaked for its roomy two-hour duration. But luxuriating in its surfaces is an undeniably intoxicating experience. Derek Kolstad’s script throws Wick into ancient Roman catacombs and ornate New York art museums, imagines buskers and hobos as covert killers and underground telcom networks that still use pneumatic tubes, switchboards and typewriters.
Lance Reddick and Ian McShane are welcome returning faces from the original, while Common makes a formidable opponent for Wick (Ruby Rose, as a mute bodyguard, is unfortunately less so). At the centre, Reeves has by now mastered the requisite contours of his character: part cragged-faced bravado of Charles Bronson, part school-of-cool of Alain Delon. Ultimately Chapter 2 transforms Wick’s clockwork, ritualistic headshots into something alternately musical and surreal. It’s the sort of film that sees a perverse ballet duet in a staircase tumble and doesn’t forget the resourcefulness of a well-placed pencil.Hide
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