John Wick: Chapter Two

The film remarkably balances its predecessor’s spartan characterizations and plotting with an expansion of scale.

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Chapter 2 gives John Wick an irresistibly surreal follow-up.

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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.

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As in 2014's surprise hit, this elegantly choreographed action sequel elevates its brutal confrontations to a dazzling form of modern dance.

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As it goes in the blockbuster world these days, the door is kept swinging wide open for “John Wick: Chapter 3,” but screenwriter Derek Kolstad not only earns that right, but the storytelling creates a genuine anticipation for what happens next.

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Whether or not John Wick: Chapter 2 is superior to its counterpart matters little when the experience is worth enjoying unto itself; perhaps my biggest compliment is that the film would’ve had a similar effect as its predecessor had it come first.

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Keanu Reeves reunites with ‘Matrix’ co-star Laurence Fishburne in this action-packed underworld sequel.

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A brutal, bruising bullet ballet of a sequel that builds upon the promise of the original.

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The sequel recaptures the original’s style, but with fewer surprises.

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It isn’t easy to explain the appeal of the “John Wick” movies, and they are inarguably not for every taste, but there is a purity to them that transcends their barbarity and has something to do with the central character.

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Keanu Reeves delivers his best work since The Matrix in this series, so it comes as an extra delight when Reeves’ Matrix co-star Laurence Fishburne shows up in the latter half of John Wick: Chapter 2.

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There’s no lack of expertly choreographed kung fu and gun-fu here, as the canine-loving, sartorially splendid liquidator returns.

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John Wick: Chapter 2 tempts fate with a 122-minute running time, but the "Gun Fu" is back and it's just as deathly awesome as it was in the first film.

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It’s all kind of funny, actually, and deliberately so. Director Chad Stahelskii, a former stunt man, stages a flailing fight down a seemingly endless flight of stairs that is like something out of a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

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The plot matters only inasmuch as it allows the returning director, Chad Stahelski, to stage his spectacular fight sequences in various stunning Roman locations, where they unfold with an almost erotic brutality.

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Keanu Reeves's trigger-happy sequel gets the job done.

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"John Wick 2" stages its gun-fu melees sleekly and sometimes well, from the catacombs of Rome to the subway platforms of New York City.

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In “John Wick: Chapter 2,” the international superkiller wears black turtlenecks straight out of L’Uomo Vogue, has a tattoo in Latin and calls his gun dealer his “sommelier.” He’s the world’s most pretentious hit man.

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