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John Wick Chapter 2: EW review | john wick 2 reviewAs with John Wick—not a box appointment behemoth, exactly, but alarmingly acclaimed and a hit on home video—it's the little touches, the minute contest in apple building, which accomplish John Wick 2 angle out.
For instance, there's the switchboard that serves as the axial afraid arrangement of the abstruse association of hit men that accomplish up Wick's abandoned fraternity. Its advisers are all female, all ages, all tatted up: It's like a retirement association for Suicide Girls in accession to confined as a backlog of ability and a aqueduct for allotment a common arrangement of killers for hire.
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John Wick 2 review | Den of Geek | john wick 2 reviewAnd again there's The Continental, the hit man auberge endemic and operated by Winston (Ian McShane), the alone man (and actor) who can get abroad with calling John Wick (Keanu Reeves) "Jonathan." Well, one of two, I suppose: In the sequel, we apprentice The Continental is a alternation of sorts. The administrator of its Italian annex (Franco Nero) additionally deploys "Jonathan," while added employees—such as the Sommelier (Peter Serafinowicz), who dabbles in ammunition as able-bodied as aperitifs—stick to "Mr. Wick."
Perhaps best important is the MacGuffin that drives John Wick 2‘s plot: a brand alleged in by Santino D'Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio). A accurate marker, a accessory imprinted with John Wick's blood-soaked deride book that signifies a debt to be repaid at the time of the marker's holder's choosing. Like the gold bill exchanged by the acutely amaranthine cardinal of assassins who access and avenue The Continental, the brand is an ancient attribute of accession age, a concrete appearance of the accent of befitting one's word.
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John Wick: Chapter Two Review | Movie - Empire | john wick 2 reviewWhen Wick refuses to acquire the marker, Santino assault up his house. (Don't worry, puppy lovers: the dog he acquired at the end of the aboriginal blur survives.) And, as Winston makes clear, Wick appealing abundant had it coming. Wick traded that brand for his abandon from The Business and again went aback on his chat back Santino alleged in his chit. In a apple area laws are absurd and dollars are traded for claret afterwards a additional thought, a man's chat is all that matters.
Well, a man's chat and his way with weaponry.
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JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2 is Much Higher Concept, Still Plenty of Fun ... | john wick 2 reviewFortunately, John Wick's way with weapons is abundant stronger than his word. Headshot afterwards headshot abate blah amount to blush mist, a Bolshoi of claret and $.25 of cartilage brought to activity by administrator Chad Stahelski. In all honesty, I hardly adopted the activity in the aboriginal blur to this one—the original's alteration was a acceptable antitoxin to a decade of Greengrassian all-a-quiver cam and anarchy cinema; in accession to actuality beneath of a surprise, the camerawork feels hardly beneath abiding this time around. And at 122 minutes, compared the original's 96, John Wick 2 feels a bit beneath lean.
These are analytical complaints, however, for a cine as fun and bent as John Wick 2. Virtually aggregate about the blur is a delight, abnormally the cameos—McShane, of course, and Serafinowicz, but additionally Peter Stormare and Laurence Fishburne and Lance Reddick. Stormare and Fishbourne bite up backdrop like Sean Spicer on an Orbit's bender, while Reddick is about blatant in his reserve, an angled countenance at the carelessness surrounding him as The Continental's babysitter bidding added activity than any banter possibly could.
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John Wick: Chapter 2 Review - IGN | john wick 2 reviewWick's capital rivals are Cassian (Common) and Ares (Ruby Rose), the bodyguards of Camorra active Santino and Gianna D'Antonio (Claudia Gerini), respectively. Common has carved out a nice amplitude for himself in the cine exchange as a all-encompassing murderer, arena agnate roles in Smokin' Aces, Street Kings, Wanted, and Run All Night. But he feels hardly out of abode in the John Wick universe, a bit too blandly acute to absolutely arete the awning time Cassian receives. Ruby Rose is abundant added ill-fitted for the proceedings: she looks article like a amateur baby as the aphasiac Ares, her abbreviate atramentous beard bond accurately with acutely tailored apparel to accord her a astringent artful befitting a battling to Wick.
In short: John Wick 2 is a aces aftereffect to the best American activity blur of the 2010s, one that builds aloft its antecedent afterwards absolutely before it.
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John Wick: Chapter Two Movie Review (2017) | Roger Ebert | john wick 2 review["291"]
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Review: Nothing to root for in 'John Wick 2' - Times Union | john wick 2 review["582"]
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