Spectacular

Rating: 10/10 (19 February 2017)

Chpater 2 deserves credit for being a better film than the amazing first john wick with even more action and different motivations. In this installment we see Wick forced to return to his old life yet again when he must complete a task for the man who helped him leave his assassin life in the first place.
Chapter 2 contains just as much emotion as the first with even more action all of which intense. Like the first there are many gunfights and fist fights and even a car chase straight from the get go as it starts with wick chasing a guy on a bike then attacking the brother of the man he had killed not long before only to let the man live in the name of peace. Throughout Wicks humanity is explored as his motivations change, he lets people live because he's not out for revenge, when he spared cassian I got the sense that there was mutual respect between the two but also couldn't help but wonder if, like the first film, he was out for revenge he would've killed cassian and later on Ares although I'm not sure if the latter actually survived. Speaking of cassian and Ares I really liked both, cassian appeared to have a history with wick and was after him for what the latter had done (Wick kind of killed his ward Gianna) and Ares spoke only with sign language, and as I don't like to speak much I found that really cool. Now this time round I have a clear negative although one that isn't really a negative if you don't let it bother you that negative being the familiarity of some of the fights. The cassian fight was something new another person able to hold his own against Wick but sometimes the fights were just moves we had seen before in the first John Wick still it didn't really affect the experience. John Wick chapter 2 is to John Wick what the empire strikes back is to a new hope, an improvement on a film that was itself brilliant anyway it definitely deserves a 10