A bonkers rock opera videogame.

Rating: 9/10 (14 February 2020)

Back and now with a budget! And 100% more neon.
John Wick Chapter 2 is one step backwards and two steps forward, revelling in the world already created and expanding it tenfold. The photography blends broad beautiful day shoots and blistering glossy night. The world building comes with a delightfully cryptic and fun script that gets deeper and more thematically rich on each watch. I'm more excited than I thought to wonder if all the little side characters would return in JW3; from John Leguizamo to Jimmy the cop, and that's a testament to its confident world building and efficient storytelling.
Very almost too much and too far and yet it's completely and utterly on the side of brilliance. Without question of the finest sequels ever made and one of the most fantastic action films ever assembled. It's brisk, rich, funny, a brutal modern classic. A thing of beauty.
Every bit as good as the first one. After an equally rocky start the film opens up when Wick travels to Rome. If you took the artefacts out of the Uncharted videogame and added a city and a suit you'd have John Wick chapter 2: full tilt Third Person Shooter. I mean, the film is worth seeing for the Sommelier sequence alone. Somebody give Peter Serafinowicz's agent a raise.
Also Morpheous. Makes me wonder if John Wick isn't one of the 'other' 'Ones' from a previous version of The Matrix...