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Thursday, March 28, 2024

At the movies – ‘John Wick: Chapter 2’

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“John Wick: Chapter 2” is a sequel all sequels should aspire to be.

I typically roll my eyes at anything with an actual number two in the title as I believe it denotes a half-baked plot to lift money out of our wallets by pointlessly carrying on events from an earlier film. (The best sequels tend to have their own title)

But the second chapter of the John Wick Series kicks out the stereotypes and ushers in a new idea of what the second movie in a series can be.

Keanu Reeves is John Wick, the ultra skilled, semi-retired hitman getting revenge on the men who killed his dog and destroyed his home.

In doing so, Wick must navigate a mysterious global community of killers and thieves with their own set of unbreakable, cult like rules. It’s often whacky and funny, never taking itself too seriously, but will still keep you involved in the drama and suspense.

Like it’s predecessor, Chapter 2 is absurdly violent. At times too violent to watch. And sometimes too repetitive and tedious to care.

But you always stay rooting for John Wick. His seemingly two-dimensional character gets a bit more flavor and structure as we continue to be thrown deeper into the mythos of the series’s international, underground criminal society.

It’s this mythical hitman underworld that really drives the appeal of the movie as well as the appeal of potential sequels. Sequels of which I’m sure, and I hope, will be many.

I give “John Wick: Chapter 2” 3/4 stars

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Ben Sanchez
Ben Sanchez
Ben Sanchez is a recent Metea Valley Graduate. He is both an avid moviegoer and writer.

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