John Wick 2 - Review Thread

I loved almost every minute of this. While it lacked the emotional punch at the beginning that the first film did, I attribute that to the audience not really knowing what John Wick was capable of. John Leguizamo and the Russian kingpin build the suspense by telling the kid what he did was going to have serious repercussions, which then led to us seeing John Wick's capability.

The second film was more like John Wick Unleashed. Since there was no mystery who who John Wick is, or what he is capable of, he comes right out of the gate at full speed. A chain of events leads to numerous action sequences with brief moments that further the plot and allow us to catch our breath and have a laugh here and there. The choreography of the scenes was as brilliant, maybe even more so, than the first, and the Joker has been unseated as the king of Best Pencil Death in a movie.

The only qualm I had was the ending - a choice was made that, quite frankly, surprised me, and then led to an inevitable sequel, but it was an entirely sad ending, and one that demands we see a third chapter. The other issue that was more of an annoyance was the fact that John didn't have a backup cache of weapons and gold coins. He should have been prepared for the possible destruction of his home, and had some supplies stored elsewhere. While it was cool to see a Neo/Morpheus reunion, and he did have other reasons to see "Morpheus," the fact he had to bargain for a gun seemed like irresponsible planning on a master assassin's part.

Still, this was a great one, with a high re-watchability factor.

9/10 - superb movie

Keanu is great in this movie. Well, both of them really. I liked this one. Lots more world-bulding.

Awesome time seeing this. Pretty much the last half hour was one long action sequence. Some bad up close CGI moments though.

Definitely had a little sense of self-awareness this time around, led to some funnier moments.

Don't fuck with Wick.

1,000,000/10