{"id":1524,"date":"2017-09-30T19:45:05","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2017-09-30T19:45:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:45:05","slug":"john-wick-2-a-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/30\/john-wick-2-a-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wick 2 \u2013 A Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier I reviewed John Wick<\/a>.\u00a0 And he killed everyone in sight and got a new dog, so story over and he lived (or bled to death) happily ever after.\u00a0 But, doggone it, John Wick must have made some money so there\u2019s gonna be a John Wick 2.<\/p>\n

I watched it last night.\u00a0 I even rented John Wick, just in case I needed to be refreshed on the details.\u00a0 But it all came flooding back.\u00a0 As luck would have it, there\u2019s an evil crime lord who has a marker from John Wick that he can cash in if John comes out of retirement.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t you know it!\u00a0 John declines.\u00a0 Crime Lord blows up John\u2019s house with some kind of a grenade launcher which based on its effect must involve anti-matter.\u00a0 John is blown clear of the house (relatively unharmed mind you) and luckily for the Crime Lord the dog is unharmed.\u00a0 You would think after what John did to a Crime Lord in the first movie word would have gotten out to the Crime Lord community.\u00a0 Alas it hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The remainder of the movie is the body count involved in first fulfilling his debt to the above referenced Crime Lord and then completing the vendetta against this self-same Crime Lord.\u00a0 It is a ponderous count.<\/p>\n

So, to review my take on this series, it\u2019s based on John Wick being possessed of ultra-fast reflexes and a machine-like precision at killing men, whether with gun, knife, hands, head or pencil.\u00a0 In fact, I think in one scene he stabbed his opponent to death with a rather blunt pistol.\u00a0 In John Wick 2 he gets to mix it up a bit, in that a couple of his opponents are women (I think).<\/p>\n

So, if you\u2019ve already seen John Wick why would you need a second dose of the same?\u00a0 The innovation in the second film is speed.\u00a0 In this second outing a mere ten or twenty opponents would only be a momentary diversion, perhaps something for him to keep busy with between brushing his teeth and flossing.\u00a0 During one sequence he\u2019s armed with three guns (a pistol, a fully automatic rifle and a shot gun) and he\u2019s barely able to reload anything fast enough to keep from running out of ammo.\u00a0 And he\u2019s not wasting bullets.\u00a0 Amazingly, no matter what lighting conditions, distance or direction every shot is a head shot kill.\u00a0 Sometimes he\u2019s so busy that he\u2019s forced to kill his opponents with one hand while reloading with the other.\u00a0 And sometimes he\u2019s so hard-pressed that he has to kill other attackers with a gun that\u2019s still being held by a guy he\u2019s also throttling.\u00a0 It\u2019s a dizzying dance of death that goes on and on and on.<\/p>\n

The twist in the plot is that the Crime Lord has put out a seven million dollar price on John\u2019s head and apparently all eight million inhabitants of New York City are hit men (and women).\u00a0 So wherever he goes, subway, museum or restaurant, he\u2019s assaulted by multiple assassins trying to collect on the contract.\u00a0 So, knowing he needs help to survive he goes to the King of the Homeless (played by his old Matrix buddy Lawrence Fishburne) and is brought to the location of the Crime Lord.\u00a0 The catch is he\u2019s only given one gun and it only has a seven-bullet clip.\u00a0 That would only last John Wick for at most four seconds.\u00a0 But he agrees and away he goes.\u00a0 The finale is another ballet of bullets.\u00a0 Only this time exchanging guns with his victims is a pressing detail.<\/p>\n

John Wick 2 is full of growth for Keanu as an actor.\u00a0 At one point he makes a joke ( it\u2019s about a knife in an aorta).\u00a0 And he gets to banter with his friends and enemies in multiple languages, English, Russian, Italian and American Sign Language for the Deaf (one of his victims is a deaf woman, I think).\u00a0 He truly is a Man for All Seasons.<\/p>\n

By the end of the movie John Wick has now broken the code of the Continental Hotel and Hitman\u2019s Club.\u00a0 He is given an hour\u2019s grace before all the same bounty hunters as earlier are coming to kill him.\u00a0 We last see him heading south (I think) out of Central Park.\u00a0 And he\u2019s moving pretty fast considering the beating the movie has inflicted on him.<\/p>\n

So, I once again recommend this new John Wick movie.\u00a0 It provides fair recompense for your time and money in the form of ludicrous speed gangland killing.<\/p>\n

My only worry is what about John Wick 3?\u00a0 Based on the increase in killing speed between the movies, in the next one he\u2019ll either have to upgrade his brain and body with cybernetic replacements or he\u2019ll have to put in a lot of overtime.\u00a0 I guess if he can learn to kill people while simultaneously performing his other daily activities he can get his quota up high enough.\u00a0 Showering, shaving, eating breakfast, talking on the phone.\u00a0 These things can certainly be done one-handed.\u00a0 Working out at the gym could get tricky but I guess he could try shooting a gun with his foot while working the Lat-Machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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