Stylish & Gruesome

Rating: Null/10 (10 February 2017)

I saw "John Wick:Chapter 2", starring Keanu Reeves-Knock Knock, the Matrix movies; Ian McShane-The Brothers Grimsby, Death Race_2008; Riccardo Scamarcio-Burnt, Loose Cannons; Common-Run All Night, Date Night and Laurence Fishburne-Black_ish_tv, the Matrix movies.
This is a sequel to the 2014 action hit and they have upped the action here. FYI: I have heard that there will be a third one and this one sets it up nicely. Keanu returns as the trying-to-retire hit man that keeps running into people that don't want him to. Ian is sort of the keeper and enforcer of the hit man rules that all hit men have to follow. He lets people know about safe havens too, where no violence is allowed at all, under penalty of expulsion from the International Hit Man Club and it usually ends in death for the person, too. Riccardo wants Keanu to kill someone for him-he has a marker on Keanu and if Keanu does the hit, then Keanu will be a free man. Of course, things get more complicated, more violent, more guns blazing, well, you get the idea. Common is the bodyguard of the person that Keanu is supposed to take out and Laurence is the head of a group of hit men that disguise themselves as street people-like homeless people or street beggars. At one point, there is an open contract on Keanu for 7 million dollars and other assassins come at him from every angle. The stunts and fights are fantastic and I don't see how some of the stunt men weren't seriously hurt during the filming. It is not for everyone-Keanu kills several opponents using only an ordinary pencil-but it is my kind of movie; stylish and gruesome. It's rated "R" for violence, language and some brief nudity and has a running time of 2 hours & 2 minutes. I loved it and would buy it on Blu-Ray.