Synopsis
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.
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Cast
- Keanu ReevesJohn Wick
- CommonCassian
- Ian McShaneWinston
- Laurence FishburneBowery King
- Riccardo ScamarcioSantino D'Antonio
- Ruby RoseAres
- Lance ReddickCharon
- Peter StormareAbram Tarasov
- Bridget MoynahanHelen Wick
- Franco NeroJulius
Recommendations
- 83
IndieWire
As relentless, eager-to-please genre filmmaking goes, it marks the rare occasion where too much of a good thing is just good enough. - 83
Entertainment Weekly
The idea of a secret world of professional killers adhering to a set of civilized conventions may sound absurd, but it’s what makes the Wickverse more intriguing and far richer than the usual numbskull orgy of cinematic nihilism. - 80
Variety
There’s a quality to the violence here that elevates it above the literal (and reprehensible) nihilism of movies like last year’s “Hardcore Henry,” and instead achieves something more akin to dance. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Once again, Reeves does not disappoint, fully inhabiting Wick by channeling his rage over life’s injustices into an intensely focused performance. - 80
Empire
A brutal, bruising bullet ballet of a sequel that builds upon the promise of the original. - 80
Time Out London
What a stupendously entertaining ride it is. Director and former stuntman Chad Stahelski is back in the director’s chair, and he knows his craft inside out: every punch lands hard, every gunshot roars like thunder. - 75
The Playlist
John Wick: Chapter 2 doesn’t mess with a good thing, expanding the setting as sequels are obligated to do, while firmly sticking to the foundations of what makes the action series such pure popcorn pleasure. - 70
TheWrap
John Wick’s world is elegant and vicious, full of slaughter and courtesies and, if “Chapter 2” can’t quite replicate the original’s sense of discovery, its ending still made me wish “Chapter 3” could start right away.
