Review – John Wick: Chapter 2 Grabbed the Mic and Yelled Can I Talk My Shit Again?

I can’t imagine there’s a person that saw John Wick, liked the movie enough that they wanted to see the sequel and expected John Wick: Chapter 2 to be anything but more of the same. As someone that really dug the first movie, this is not a bad thing. The core parts from the first movie are intact: Keanu Reaves in the titular role is the unstoppable killing machine, the acting is still pretty wooden, and there is an endless supply of gun toting dudes that are just waiting to get double tapped to the dome by Wick. But even if this is a continuation of the first movie, it wouldn’t be fair to categorize it as a clone. The ante is definitely up this time around, as John, once again is thrust out of his un-retirement, this time not for vengeance, but for a job he doesn’t want to do but is left with little choice.

Whereas the story from the first movie was pretty straight forward once the action started (dude gets wronged, dude decides to kill that wronged him and each and every person that would hinder that goal). This time around, there’s much more murkiness about how John gets back on his murder game again, and then, the fallout from each decision he makes just compounds the situation further until we run out of film. Make no mistake, the film is completely built hyperbole applied to a realistic world. John Wick is not disqualified from being a superhero because he kills people, but basically because he can’t fly. Other than that, he basically possesses superhero capabilities in…