Chapter 2: The Inferno

Rating: 7/10 (16 June 2017)

There's something delightfully askew about this movie. For one, the not-so-subtle allusions to Dante. In an action movie. Man, that's just precious.
While "John Wick 2" doesn't have the suspenseful revenge buildup of its predecessor, it doubles down on the mystique of the underworld's internal workings; which makes sense as that was the allure of the original.
But one of the things I really like about this movie is that, even with the beautifully gruesome violence, there's a fair bit of humor mixed in; some of it even taking the action to bizarre levels. Like, say, Reeves and Common continuing their fistfight during a fall down the stairs, or even co-opting New York's homeless as part of the assassin network (and Morpheus as their King . . . I just thought that that was very funny).
It's all part of the surreal magic.
7/10