Almost perfect

Rating: 9/10 (12 February 2017)

The first John Wick was such an original and perfectly crafted movie that 10 out of 10 seems only fair. The sequel lacks the originality of the first one but carries I higher level of dark humor.
The end however is so sad that I only hope Chapter Three takes less than than three years to arrive. The sad ending (which is perfect by the way but humanizes the character perhaps too much) is the only reason I gave 9 out of 10 stars.
Chad Stahelski the stuntman turned director of this one and the first; knows a few things about action movies and overused clichés. The stunt sequences are impressive and clichés are used as dark jokes between the impossible to follow body count. Almost everybody in the theater was laughing and/or gasping with every scene change.
The prologue of the movie where Peter Stormare (usually a very bad guy which always dies) gives the finest comedy moments of his career in during a maelstrom of killings and car crashes and as a final touch his life is spared.
After that hyper-active beginning the movie slows down for a few minutes (it needs some story line to justify what comes next) and re-start with a higher level of violence but dialog to a minimum ("He does not like to waste words" a character states).
In brief; more violent and with more humor than the first one; so do not think; just go an see it once or twice at least.