"John Wick: Chapter 2" is as Good as Its Predecessor. Movie Review.

Keanu Reeves is back playing John Wick in the second chapter, all his stunts, beautiful choreography and headshots are back, his bodywork was amazing in the firs movie, so it remains to be fantastic in the second movie. John Wick is not just a film, which shows great action, but smart world building with a lot of rules and subtleties, so it doesn't look like a stupid all time action, but more like a smart action film, which respects viewer's interest in details and grace. Keanu Reeves is an exceptional person, he is hardworking and very talented. I can imagine the way it was, preparing for this movie - hard all day long training to level the difficulty of all stunts and action pieces, set for this movie to work the way it does. I love incredible action, it makes me feel good. And I really appreciate the effort, made by these stuntmen and stunt coordinators. 

The plot is the weakest part, but it shouldn't bother too much. After all, John Wick is a hitman, sometimes these people can't forgive and forget. After watching Chapter 2, I now think that personal vendetta is some part of these rules of the underground hitman world - this is the best explanation of why John Wick just can't leave it alone. By the way, the plot is good enough to explain everything properly. Wick doesn't have a choice, so he is back again. Knowing Wick's character, he would be back from retiring for much less, than it was in the movie.  

After killing Vigo (the villain in chapter 1) John Wick decided to get his car back, so he comes to Vigo's cousin (or so), who owns the taxi business as a cover for mob activity. At the main garage, where Wick's car is held, as well as the mob operation goes, the second chapter begins with a lot of action. The brutality of this movie is on the high level. There is a lot of blood and violence. 

It is really hard to sympathize with the main character when he kills people in cold blood left and right. But no one said that you should sympathize with any of these killers. This movie is just about the world being against one man, John Wick so he would kick its ass.  

That is just me, but I felt a little tired of boring kills after a good portion of them. However, this movie expanded the universe of John Wick so good, that a lot of new cool equal in skill to John characters appeared. And they are really tough. John, who is known to kill weak and easy targets now has to go up against real power as well.  

This movie is rich for talents. It has Keanu Reeves, Lawrence Fishburn, John Leguizamo, Ian McShane and Rubi Roze. This cast is just brought for one-liners and easy dialog. And it is not really a negative, but the movie has very poor dialogs, it is just the way it is. But overall, this movie is enjoyable. If you saw and liked the first chapter, you will like this one as well. The whole time John Wick just kills people, running with a gun in so many different places. This movie expanded the universe, set a tone for maybe a decade of new action films and made Keanu Reeves an action star again.