 Holy fuck John Wick chapter 2. I Can't believe it's as good as it is now. I had an initial fear that John Wick chapter 2 would Sort of take the taken route the first film in the Taken series was commendable It was enjoyable and it was a fun time the second one was a piece of shit that was totally unnecessary So John Wick chapter 2 was it necessary? If anything while it does tie in to the events of the first film It is its own story a thing that my friends said that was actually a really good comparison. It's that they are a Continuation, but you can't compare the two. They are different in themselves as they are as similar So it's like an episode instead. It's like a really long high-budget episode in the next episode of John Wick and This one was good Admittedly it does not have the same sort of emotional characterization that it did in the first film We don't have that sort of humanity of Keanu Reeves character the emotional loss of his wife That is It does come into this film But is nowhere near as prominent as it was in the first film as such because that is the story that has come and gone More so Keanu Reeves is just a fucking killer machine in this movie again. He's so freaking awesome The absolute carnage that this film had was nuts There's a great opening scene and then we kind of slowed down a little bit And we kind of follow it a little into the same sort of reminiscence sort of revenge Total obvious setup scheme that we've seen a lot of action films of this genre And even though it does borrow a bunch of cliches we have seen in previous action films The choreography and the fight scenes make up for it Entirely there's at least one scene involving Reloading a shotgun that I actually yelled out. Holy fucking shit. Is he actually gonna fucking do it? Holy fuck he did apologies for all the swearing in this But it's necessary because I think I said holy at least 40 times throughout this whole movie every time that it could this film brought an action scene that Completely blew me away. There was even a funny action scene a funny shootout just like That was probably one of the funniest scenes with guns and people shooting at each other I've seen in a long time So from a technical standpoint in terms of how the choreography and the action scenes work This is better than the first one The first one did have that really cool creative idea of using a guy in a car and just driving around killing people at the end And then the nightclub scene, but this There's just so many scenes They're all are awesome The first fight scene admittedly starts off a little odd a little shaky in Rome And I was kind of worried that they were going to go away from what made the first John Wick so good It's very great long Steady shots of action scenes, but then it totally jumped right back into it The idea of the backstory of the whole world with continental and everything is again Really well worked on and not explaining everything is still giving us this mystery this interesting world-building aspect The additional characters in this film in McShane is still really awesome The bad guy nowhere near as good as the villain from the first film who I really enjoyed He was a respectable villain the villain in this one's just a douchebag So that was kind of a little bit of an offset and as I said the whole idea of Wick being a character There's that one point where he just goes on a killing rampage and while that was awesome It wasn't until the end of it that I realized that I don't think he had said a word for the last 15 minutes And while that's cool The thing that I liked about the first film as we saw his character Going through these hurdles to avenge his wife and we were able to connect with him on a human human level in this one He's a killing machine He destroys everything in his path the thing that kind of went on a little bit is that he was taking So much pain and just being able to walk it off I was kind of a little bit like it wasn't as Dangerous as it wasn't the first one. He got hurt a lot in the first one and this one he gets hurt even more Technically, but he doesn't play it off as well He's more so a killing machine in it and again not really a complaint But just something that removes us more from the character of John Wick Either way though these are very mild complaints the film is fantastic The ending will shock the shit out of you and I cannot wait for number three Yes, there's gonna be a third one and I will be counting the days until that one comes out I hope you guys go and see it This was a fun time is not as good as the first one to me in my opinion It is definitely Probably more entertaining than the first one, but as a film structure, it's not as good So I have to give it a six out of seven It really hurts because I really want to give it a seven out of seven, but admittedly Just the lack of character elements that there could have been a little bit more with wick And the fact that the villain is just a straight-up douche bag He's not this respectable very cool villain that we had in the last movie That's why I put it down to a six either way though guys go and see this movie the amount of holy shit moments I had in this film were ridiculous. I'm seeing it again tomorrow that are technically today But either way hope you guys enjoyed this review. I'll see you guys next time