He’s sported streetwear that remains true to his grunge-era roots but also rocks a streamlined suit for the red carpets whenever the occasion warrants something more sophisticated. In his roughly 35 year-long career, Keanu Reeves has kept his taste in fashion interesting. Our review of the Carl F Bucherer 38mm Manero AutoDate watch.The stakes are so low, no matter how much the movie wants us to believe otherwise. But so what? Whoever comes after me, Wick tells Winston, I'll kill them. We learn in the sequel that assassins are a dime a dozen one in ten people in NYC apparently get the bounty texts. So what if Wick is exiled? Nothing can stop him. It's fun for a little while, and then boring. While he's a dangerous assassin in the first film, in the second he may as well be an avenging superhero, so vast and flawless his powers of death. All dramatic tension is quickly dissolved thanks to the dawning knowledge that Wick is unstoppable. Even the tougher fights are wrapped up fairly quickly. In the second film, however, he never needs help. He is captured and almost killed and twice has to be saved by Marcus. Meanwhile, Wick is never invulnerable in the first film. Perkins for doing essentially what Wick does in the second film: Break hotel rules. There were so many unexpected little things that happened the first time around, from the terrible killing of the puppy to the murder of Wick's friend, Marcus, and the later execution of the assassin Ms. Worse, simply making the movie more bombastic and violent than the first one mistakes what made the first film so great. We're still listening to the same song twice, it's just louder this time.
But it constantly feels like more of the same, with the volume turned up. Credit: Summit EntertainmentĪll the fights are cleverly choreographed. It's almost disappointing to see it actually happen. That was, of course, the scary story they told about the Boogeyman, that he once killed two men in a bar with nothing but a pencil. He even kills a couple of them with a pencil. More assassins come to kill him, too, and he kills them all. So what? This is a generic way to make a sequel feel bigger than the first film. So yes, they're upping the ante a little bit here but it's all too familiar.Īnd that problem continues throughout the film. This time around, D'Antonio doesn't take his car or steal his puppy, he blows up his house with Wick inside. Worse still, being called back from retirement is just the first movie's plot reused here. But what good would a Mark be if Wick was no longer an assassin? And what good is leaving the business if Wick can be called back at any point vis-a-vis said Mark? It's a losing deal for both sides, and makes little sense. John gave D'Antonio his Mark in order for D'Antonio's blessing to leave the business behind him. But here's where the movie's first big plot hole rears its ugly head. If you've given someone your Mark, they can cash in at any time and you have no choice but to help. It turns out, D'Antonio has Wick's "Mark." This is essentially a blood oath, and in the murky laws of this world's society, it's basically a binding favor. What comes in-between is mostly a film searching desperately for a plot and never quite finding one. The final minutes are devoted to setting up the third movie, as Wick is exiled from the underworld for killing the film's antagonist inside the Continental. Its opening scene is devoted to tying up the first movie's loose ends, something it never needed to do and probably shouldn't have attempted. The movie is billed as "Chapter 2." Perhaps it suffers from middle child syndrome. And the constant fight scenes feel tedious rather than imaginative. The conflict feels contrived this time around. Indeed, while it tries to fiddle with the formula, the film is mostly showing off its violence, but it never manages to be as surprising or delightful as the first.
Unlike the first movie, which is all about revenge and loss and a return of Sir John to the saddle and to knight-errantry, John Wick 2 does almost nothing new with its action and story. A great backdrop for what is otherwise a fairly standard action romp. It's all very Shakespearean and florid and sort of beautiful and garish all at once. We even meet the Bowery King, played by Reeves' Matrix co-star Laurence Fishburne. There is a High Table which is an underworld council of sorts, comprised of various mob bosses from around the world. There are fancy gun dealers and tailors, all of whom accept the gold currency. Much of this is continued and even built upon in small ways in John Wick 2. We learn that there are other Continental Hotels in other cities like Rome.
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