John Wick: Chapter 2 Film Review

Finished watching John Wick: Chapter 2, directed by Chad Stahelski and staring Keanu Reeves, Peter Stormare, Riccardo Scamarcio, Claudia Gerini, Common and Lawrence Fishburne. The film opens with John Wick (Keanu Reeves) infiltrating a warehouse own by the brother of the last film's antagonist, Abram Tarasov (Peter Stormare) how is housing John's stolen car. After getting his car back and finally putting an end to his former life, he is meet at his home by crime lord Santaino D'Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio) who asks John to kill his sister Gianna (Claudia Gerini) by honouring a blood oath the two made years prior. When John declines, Santaino forces him to do the job when he blows up John's home. Overall this was an amazing film as it dives straight into the action which not only lives up to the film's predecessor but excels and improves upon with a lot more variety of fights and camera angles to give the film its own feel. The use of the supporting cast is great with Cassian (Common) apparently having history with John gives a great amount of interactions between the characters and up the stakes when the two are fighting each other. Additionally the character of the Bowery King (Lawrence Fishburne) opens the criminal underworld further in a surprising way that is still only the tip of the iceberg with shows itself in the ending moments of the film. 9/10.