John Wick 2 movie review (2017)- by Fandom Entertainment

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John with two opens this weekend, let’s find out if he’s still pretty pissed about the dog. Oh, good to see you again so soon.

Imroth, Grynet, Armande Signaler, let’s talk John Wick to first of all, Andy, give me the setup. How excited were you for the sequel? Did you love the first one?

Good question. Actually, I didn’t love the first one. The first time I saw it, there was so much hype on this movie. When I first saw it, I went on a little and I had already seen The Equalizer, Denzel Washington, a similar movie. So my my hype had sort of been tempered a bit. So I liked the film that said that I went back to re watch it without all the attachment to it from on a trailer. And I really enjoyed it the second time. The second time I was like, OK, I get I get why this was working. I get why this was fun. And so I became a fan. Right. And so being able to see the first one and then go straight into this one, that I became a super fan and I actually really liked sort of the continuation of the world. And I said, I’m excited to see chapters three, four or five, six, seven, eight, whatever they want to deliver now.

Ok, well, there’s a potential of a TV show, which we talked about right here on news, but I will own right up top that I was all in on John Wick from the very first viewing. I love the world. I love the style of action. It’s certainly a wish fulfillment movie. John Wick is the type of person that you wish you could be, that you’re ten steps of everybody that you can kill, people with coffee, cups and elbows and whatever else is disposable to you. Pencils, pencils, certainly quite a lot of pencil usage, though. The first film was directed by Chadds to help ski and correct me if I’m wrong. And David Leach. David Leach has gone on. He’s going to direct Deadpool to he produced this one, but directed this one on his own.

Do you think that that rumors that co directed but then there was a DGA rule out, who knows, they were both clearly involved, involved. And I think then he was more of a producer on the second one. Yeah. Chad sort of let the director out for. But yeah, I like these guys. They were stunt guys like they started out and stunt work. They’re doing some work today. We got to do some of those stunt work with their stunt people. I just thought I’d get it. There’s a there’s a sort of you can see they’ve watched a lot of stunts throughout their history of making films and stunt people. So for them to be to take the reins, you can see they really want to get the pain and sort of the the action. And this is just evident. And I think that’s what makes the film so great, why we connect to it. There’s a scene in Chapter two where they fall down a flight of stairs. And I was like that had to hurt. Like, how did you do this? He’s like, oh yeah. We only we did it once. Like the fact that they were throwing themselves down stairs to really do it. Right, because when I watch that scene, the movie, you’re just like this is intense. It just feels realer and RA than most action films these days.

I think that Keanu Reeves, we have a theory that Keanu Reeves is the fulcrum of all modern action. Right. So you start with Point Break, which begat Fast and Furious, which come back to point break and all of the other things. Then of course, there’s a matrix and now they’re Shandwick speed and now there’s John Wick. And what I love about it is that you can see kind of the culmination of everything he was to date. He is very much into hand-to-hand action. He is very involved. He’s been doing this work for years and years and years of film that he directed that not a lot of people saw called. The Man of Taichi is a great film and a great example of sort of the work, that culmination of the work he’s done. But here I think it’s even more accessible. And John Wick and the other thing that’s great about this character in this world is that it is such a rich world of assassins, is so fun to explore what the rules are. You have the Continental Hotel, which I still say could be a great TV series unto itself. What this movie didn’t have that the first one did that I wondered if it would be missing was the revenge aspect, right? I think we were all a thousand percent behind this character because you killed the puppy.

You don’t kill a dog. Nine hundred people should die for that.

And seventy four. Seven seventy four. I lost track of the kills in this one. I will say that there was a ton of references here as there was in the first film. But I don’t know how you keep count when there’s so much death.

They they were smart. Chapter two, John Wick picks up right off to Chapter one, and I like that they didn’t try and like, fast forward and it just keeps going. I don’t need a ton of plot. And this one, like I just want a reason to care and then I want to see them go do the job. And that’s what this film I feel like was. But then what they did was they start building more blocks in this universe. You’re like, oh, OK, great. This is an interesting place. So you’re either going to be on board or not on board with where it goes, because I would say it’s a little silly at times, but I love that part of it. But I think it’s the first one is probably a little bit more realistic, whereas this one, they’re just tripling down on sort of the conceit of the film and his abilities and sort of this hidden assassin world, which I really like. So I think the fans are I think most fans will be excited. I think you just need to go in knowing that they’re you know, they’re tripling down on this.

I think you have to divorce yourself from reality. I think that you have to go in like you would the raid and sort of the raid to which all you really want to see is the crazy ways that they’re going to kill people. Right. And this is all you the murder you need it to be.

And they actually had a pretty good hook. Yes.

That was the thing that I would try to argue was missing in the raid, like the Raiders. Look, if this guy go up right. It’s great film. I love it. And then Ray, too, is even just like there’s not much of a story beyond it where I think Wick is creating a little bit more texture along.

With the action, they do leave it on a note, we won’t see any spoilers, but they do leave it on a note that I predict may be kind of controversial among fans. I won’t say why right now. And I kind of have mixed feelings about it.

Matters of ending Mopar. I agree. There’s one ending part. I don’t want to spoil it either, but there’s one anyway. I’m like, do we need to do that? Yeah. That said, I think, you know, there’s this is the beginning of potentially a franchise. If it’s successful, I think they could easily continue this film. And I’m excited to see the character. I think he’s proven now then they both these films, he can get punched, get back up and still keep going so he can get more than punch.

Yeah, I think listen, bottom line is, if you like, Henries, in this role, if you like the world that they’ve created, it certainly expands it more. It gives a new level of Richmonds richness. You have to know that this is not a movie that is meant to be realistic. This is meant to be a character that can do things that are beyond the bounds of reality and physics quite often.

And there’s so many little nods to other action films, so many things that there’s that to watch as well when you’re looking for it. So I think you just got to go in and this is a perfect action popcorn flick to go enjoy yourself, not take entirely seriously because you can it’s gets ridiculous at times, but, you know, not even the ridiculous and like like a triple x ray, like it is different. It’s like more of a you know, he’s he’s unhuman in certain ways.

Could not happen. It could not happen. But you know what? It’s also one of those things that it’s so viscerally satisfying to get that part of your nature that is violent because we’re all kind of violent if we’re honest. Yes.

And I did it out of the film, knows that and knows how to escalate. Yeah. And it just continues to just build and build and build and build as you like.

And when you watch this movie, just wanting him to murder people, because if you thought about all of the people that were being brutally, brutally, brutally murdered, you probably feel really bad.

And then they have moments that have moments where they make you laugh during it all common, who I thought actually was great. And I do, too. There’s a scene with comin at him in the subway where they’re walking through the people, but then they’re still trying to attack each other, but they do so funny. The audience is just dying. After this intense moment, they’re able to fight slidin these little moments of comedy that I think is why the film works, because they know what they’re doing. They know it’s absurd. But you’re rooting for them.

Yeah. And they filled out the cast is a great supporting cast, but this does center on Keanu Reeves. He’s great in this role. It was built for him. It was built for the kind of actor he is, the way that he speaks. The cadence of K.A. Voice works perfectly for this when he gets old.

But I mean, the opening of the film sort of senses it’s Peter Strohmayr. It’s like sort of the bad at the beginning of the film. And I just love it because I didn’t love the villain in the first one or his sidekick. Like I felt both of them felt very generic, sort of didn’t they weren’t aware of how cool of a movie they were in and they sort of made a sort of boring choices. Whereas when you get Peter Strohmayr to sort of start your your movie with the Søgaard John Wick, like, you know, you’re in here for the ride that you want to be in on because now everyone gets what this is. So I think you’re either on board with that and you’re excited they figured out what these movies are or you’ll be like, all right, now it’s just crazy. I was in the first camp.

If I had a blast, I had a blast seeing it. I think that fans of the first film may not think it was as fresh or innovative because it can’t be by the nature of it being a sequel. But they did a great job with a sequel of delivering all the things that you would want from a John Wick movie. Go see it and enjoy the mayhem and bloodshed and murder and killing and death.

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