A fine action film. Not a masterpiece.

Rating: 7/10 (18 March 2017)

The world of John Wick is completely bonkers - there seem to be more assassins than regular people, and not many of those seem to bat an eyelid when men covered in blood chasing each other and even firing shots in public pass by. It is a paranoid world of power-play and clandestine rules that make no sense in reality. The saving grace is that both films are aware of this and even play to it to enhance the fun. A neon noir world of super-cool, expanded from the first film mostly in satisfactory ways. The rules of this underworld are more explained here, which is both welcome whilst perhaps defusing a little of the mystique. If you can ignore how a mortal man can be so thrown around, run over, shot, repeatedly punched, stabbed and otherwise brutalised and then still walk away to do it all again in two minutes time then you will have a ball with John Wick two. Ticks all the action boxes, is smart, funny and above all a great piece of entertainment. High art? No. 7/10.