JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 (Dragonlord's Review)

[vcmmafan]

Where you at?!?! When I was on Okinawa, we'd get it about a week after it debuted in the States.

29 Palms.

We get everything late it seems.

 

[Strychnine]

29 Palms.

We get everything late it seems.

You're lucky. At the smaller base where I am, they don't even show movies anymore except re-runs on "family night".

 

[GordoBarraBJJ]

Holy shit this movie is awesome. As an MMA fan and guy who trains it's amazing to see BJJ and judo used so much along with the gun fighting. Omoplata and I believe berimbolo were there, amongst triangle, kata guruma, ogoshi etc. Movie is fucking great

There was also some inverting, and a spider guard type of bicep control

 

[Egelo]

Kill count more bs then Commando.

So its the modern Commando, cool.

 

[dj weird]

I felt it was a great action movie. There's a few scenes that made the theater "oh and ah"

 

[ookii]

I liked it , especially when you start to find out why he is a man to be feared.

He killed a couple of guys with a fucking pencil and the tales you hear about him downplays it

 

[Coolthulu]

Gun Fu has never been more spellbinding. Keanu Reeves' badassery is groin-grabbingly transcendent. I was in fucking awe after he hilariously murked everybody at the assassins ball near the end. This is gonna be a monstrously fabulous trilogy.

 

[heavyarms21]

He killed a couple of guys with a fucking pencil and the tales you hear about him downplays it

He is a man of commitment... focus... shear will

 

[Towelie by TKO]

8.5/10

It didn't have the personal feel or emotional pull that the first film had, but it made up for it by doubling down on the tongue-in-cheek humor and some of the most of visceral action scenes ever put to film.

 

[Dragonlordxxxxx]

Critics Reviews for JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2

Rotten Tomatoes: 90% approval rating (104 out of 115 critics like it)

Critics Consensus: John Wick: Chapter 2 does what a sequel should -- which in this case means doubling down on the non-stop, thrillingly choreographed action that made its predecessor so much fun.

Entertainment Weekly - The biggest compliment I can think to pay John Wick: Chapter 2 is that I lost track of the body count within the first 15 minutes. If that sounds like high praise to you, too, then you will absolutely dig Keanu Reeves’ gratuitously crunchy ode to choreographed ultraviolence via the bullet, the bare knuckle, and the everyday No. 2 pencil. B+

Richard Roeper - Just when we thought Keanu Reeves was destined for a career of mostly forgettable films piling up in our straight-to-video cues, the guy is headlining a bona fide, first-class action franchise. Whoa. 3.5/4

Rolling Stone - Remember how the original John Wick snuck up and wowed us in 2014? Now he's back and better than ever. John Wick: Chapter 2 is the real deal in action-movie fireworks – it's pure cinema, an adrenaline rocket of image and sound that explodes on contact. 3.5/4

James Berardinelli - The second installment of the series represents a seamless extension of the original film. All the things that made the first movie so compulsively watchable, at least for high-octane action fans, are once again in the forefront: stylized action sequences, minimal “down time”, and a dry sense of wit. 3/4

 

[RollSonnenRoll]

Amazing, just amazing. The only thing that keeps me from giving it a 10 was the distress I was placed under watching that beautiful Mustang get the shit beat out of it. I was practically screaming "stop it!" at the screen every time it got smashed by another car.

 

[hiphopnazi]

Amazing, just amazing. The only thing that keeps me from giving it a 10 was the distress I was placed under watching that beautiful Mustang get the shit beat out of it. I was practically screaming "stop it!" at the screen every time it got smashed by another car.

 

[Burning Hammer]

If the 3rd movie is as good this is the best trilogy ever made. No more Star Wars, no Lord of the Rings, it's straight up John effing Wick. Some of the scene selection was rehashed but it still had it's own twist. I liked some of the creativity in the choreography. The dialogue only got better as the movie went on. The plot remained simple and logical for the universe in which Wick lives. Fantastic, 10/10.

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

Saw this tonight with the wife, loved it. Also, we netflixed the first one on Friday night, which was our first time seeing it. Also very good, but we liked the second one even more. All the secret society shit gave it a feeling of the matrix or equilibrium meets DaVinci code or national treasure or something. Funnest movie I've seen in a really long time.

9/10 would watch again.

 

[Smashandgrab]

I liked it, but not as much as the first. Honestly, the action in some spots were overdone. They could've cut the body count in half and I would have enjoyed it more.

 

[ironchefigor]

I'm wondering where they can even go in the 3rd one.

Spoiler

If literally everyone will be out to kill John, and he's been ex-communicated from the Continental, he literally has no place he can even lay low or stock up on tools. The only way he can potentially survive is doing the marker thing with Winston. Otherwise, I don't see how this goes further.[\spoiler]

 

[Satur9]

The scene with the benelli. Yeah, very satisfying. All around pretty cool. 8/10

 

[JadeOwl]

This movie lived up to all expectations. I can sincerely say that if you liked the first one, you will like this just as much.

The world building was fascinating and I can totally see them spinning off a TV show about that world now. Between this movie and the first one they’ve done enough to set up this underground society that they wouldn’t need much elaborating on a TV show. What we know now is enough to jump right in on a series.

Of course it would have to be on Netflix or someplace similar. It would simply not work if you watered down the signature violence.

The villain didn't really do anything bad to him nor did I really feel he deserved to die as with the teenage douchebag in the first film.

That’s absurd.

Spoiler

Santino blew up John’s house. It was only by mere chance that John didn’t die. And then after John fulfils the Marker he tries to have John killed and puts a 7 fucking million dollar bounty on his head.

How does any of those things not count as “didn't really do anything bad to him”?

I'm wondering where they can even go in the 3rd one.

Spoiler

If literally everyone will be out to kill John, and he's been ex-communicated from the Continental, he literally has no place he can even lay low or stock up on tools. The only way he can potentially survive is doing the marker thing with Winston. Otherwise, I don't see how this goes further.[\spoiler]

Spoiler: Chapter 3 Speculation

The only way I can see John getting out of this one is for him to do a job for the High Table.

A job big enough and impossible enough that the other 11 members would out-vote the Camorra and put John under their protection if he achieves it.

 

[Zookeeper Gabe]

John Wick has to kill Trump...

 

[Towelie by TKO]

I'm wondering where they can even go in the 3rd one.

Spoiler

If literally everyone will be out to kill John, and he's been ex-communicated from the Continental, he literally has no place he can even lay low or stock up on tools. The only way he can potentially survive is doing the marker thing with Winston. Otherwise, I don't see how this goes further.[\spoiler]

Keanu did an interview, I think with ScreenJunkies, where he said he wants the third one to take place in Jerusalem. Didn't say much more than that, just that they've been riffing on several ideas and that was his idea.

John Wick has to kill Trump...

One of the funnier moments for me was when the Italian Continental manager asked him if he was there to kill the Pope.

"Sei qui per uccidere il Papa?"