I liked it. Action sequences in the first and second acts are good, gorey fun. Third act action sequences are hit and miss, some special camerawork but action choreography suffers from it. Story is simplistic, Fishburne is only in for one scene full of Matrix fanservice. A lot more funny moments than I expected. It's a bit hard to follow if you haven't watched the first one, and it felt too long in places. Bad guy and his waifu bodyguard are bland assholes compared to Viggo and his son. I miss the subtitling from the first movie.
first one was the definition of forgettable. it left no lasting impression on me at all.
Brody Foster
both are shit
also back to >>>/reddit/
Joshua Turner
This thread is about the sequel, user. Did you not like it?
Don't see any reason to not give a rating. If there is, you can explain. Don't say lurk more, there's nothing but cuckhold porn or discussion cucks otherwise. Or kino shitposting.
Carson Morales
This. I have no idea why John Wick is a thing at all, the first movie was boring and lame. People thought it was realistic?! Watch some fucking LiveLeak FFS.
So, fuck the sequel.
Angel Scott
More like john cuck. Keanu BLACKED career when?
Zachary Martin
I just saw it.
It was pretty damn good. If you're a fan of the first one, definitely check it out. Keanu trained really hard on his gun-fu and it shows, the action sequences are top-notch
Robert Hughes
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Leo Fisher
Why?
Jace Turner
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Kevin Green
Who the fuck ever said it was realistic?
Joseph Nelson
Get the fuck out, nigger. At least the cucks contribute to meme making.
Aiden Cox
Reddit, they said the shooting was the most realistic in any action movie. They're mentally retarded.
Gavin Reed
Oh, you're the cuck spammer. I guess you're riled up because this thread interrupted you.
Michael Hernandez
Cuck porn is less cucky than John Wick.
Leo Campbell
it is more realistic than your standard action flick though. The gunshots actually sound like gunshots (with the exception of suppressed shooting, but Hollywood always fucks that up), and the movie actually seems to count the bullets instead of having never ending clipazines. Also for a "one man army" movie, the choreography makes it seem Wick could actually pull off the kill count.
It's a good movie.
Thomas Murphy
t. sperg who's never been in the military and has never seen combat
Ian Rivera
oh and your fat autistic ass has, huh? top wew John Wick 2 is a GOOD MOVIE, and there is NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
Landon Robinson
He might actually have been in the military. A lot of idiots enlisted when 9/11 happened. Guaranteed REMF if he gets real defensive about it though.
Liam Diaz
lol, a lot of imageboard users have been in the military, it's not hard. If you think John Wick has realistic action, you're objectively autistic.
Hunter Clark
wew, go watch a video from Brazil, you fucking children
Jose Perez
I really can't tell who is pretending and who is actually retarded anymore. I wish 2015 Holla Forums was back.
Brandon Rivera
At least it's original IP instead of Die Hard 705 or Fast and Furious 8934. Dumb action movie, but at least they dressed it up.
Elijah Rodriguez
How much did they force that new black actor in there?
Jack Howard
At least he did his actions scenes and not a stunt double like the girl body guard. Honestly the black guy was a much better "villan" than the main bad guy and his girl body guard.
Jayden Bell
testies
Nicholas Perez
Yes, because slavs and towelheads are the most well-trained soldiers in the world.
Isaac Murphy
I didn't get what people liked about the first one. Sure some of the fights were well choreographed but there are a lot of movies that have that but also have plot/characters that aren't mind numbingly boring.
It reminded me of Dredd except instead of being pretty great it was absurdly forgettable. I made a list ranking the top ~160 movies I've seen recently enough to have a good opinion on and I just now realized that I forgot to put John Wick on it because it was so forgettable (and I saw this 3 months ago, I've got movies on there that I last saw years ago).
Zachary Sanders
I can't wait to kill you fuckers next week. The movie was awesome by the way.
Camden Rivera
Go suck more kike dick, faggot.
Nathan Cox
neat
Joseph Young
Don't bother with thread now. If it's in theaters and blu-ray isn't out yet, so you can't pirate it, everybody here will call it shit anyway. Which is a shame, because John Wick is a better theater experience, and John Wick 2 is even better. They doubled on action scenes and somehow improved cinematography, if not necessarily best, but one of the most slick looking action movies in recent memory. Also I want all realist-autists out, it's not a fucking documentary, it's meant to be over the top, with the slight touch of a grit, to make things a bit believable and tense. Just like with "Heat" the key is balancing hyper-stylistic with realism. Disagree with OP on villain part though, Viggo and his organisation didn't felt as much of a thread to Wick, while in Chapter 2 you actually get the feeling of Wick getting cornered.
Anthony Taylor
To be fair I think they should have developed John's character in the first movie during the beginning a little more than they did, because unless you're really against doggo murder it was kinda hard to be invested in his whole journey for revenge.
The stylized choreography may have not been an accurate portrayal of how gunfights look, but there isn't really anything that's completely impossible or illogical like in some other action movies.
I'm pretty sure most of those comments are coming from how hard Keeanu trained for this movie, anyways.
Justin Watson
first one was better imo but the final scene in 2 was top tier
Jose Ross
It's pretty good, although Wick makes realy bad decisions through the entire movie. I liked that he was no longer fighting fodder but trained professionals who could fuck him up.
Henry Parker
Keanu has been training pretty hard, for the movie and outside of it too.
I think that's because Viggo couldn't bring himself to go full in against Wick. He knew that anyone he sent to kill John would end up dead. The protagonist and villain squaring off to have a final hand-to-hand fight instead of a shooting battle or simple death was the best part of the movie. Especially after the death of the foil new york accountant character, showing that John could have dropped Viggo with half a pistol mag but chose to face him instead.
Thomas Evans
He didn't spaz out because he loved the dog so much, he spazzed out because his waifu gave him the dog.
Aaron Baker
This has to be the worst Foley work I've ever heard.
Cameron Smith
you've clearly never heard a Mick Foley promo
Thomas Hill
He's been absolute shit in his stint as RAW GM. Complete cuck.3
Luis Price
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Liam Morales
I saw some commercials for this. What the fuck is it even about? All they were was "John Wick Chapter 2" and a bunch of fight scenes.
Luke Brown
The criticisms against the story/plot/ characters are kind of missing the point imo. This is a gun-fu movie. It's kung-fu with guns. Do you watch a kung-fu movie for the story, for the plot, for the character arcs? No, you watch it because you want to watch highly trained, highly skilled people kicking ass in spectacular fashion. And that's what the John Wick movies deliver, that's the entire draw of the movie.
Logan Parker
But the problem is that it even bothers to have a story/characters and wastes time on them despite them being shit. Even still, just because the focus isn't on the characters/story doesn't mean those elements can't be good. Fucking Hardcore Henry somehow had a pretty neat plot and pretty much just 1 character and both were done quite well despite the movie not really caring about anything other than action scenes.
The plot twist actually explained why there were so many ridiculous over-the-top action scenes in the movie and Jimmy was an excellent character(s).
Dredd is also a good example of a movie where plot/characters aren't the focus compared to the gun-fu but they're well done anyways.
Also I'm not saying either of those movies are kino or anything, they're just universally better than John Wick and are easy to compare it to.
Connor Russell
Actually watched the fucking movie
-It's a fucking rated-R stylized noir in the age of PG-13 capeshit -Has fun with itself without losing contextual realism -More ambitious cinematography -Fights are less one-sided -Confirms Keanu's liberation from the JUSTice Leauge
-meh soundtrack, especially compared to the first. -Obvious Glock+Kimber+RandomMatchAR company shilling. -Inferior main antagonist -Plot catalyst relied on the ignorance of Wick and main antagonist to work -Ending too sequelly and is pretty much forced in a corner to clone the Bourne series…with a pinch of Matrix -Wick doesn't fug Gianna -Not enough doge
-Teases that plot would involve Viggo's relative/s wanting revenge. Doesn't happen -There's a scene where an obvious fat kike jew'd Wick out of a few coins, giving him a shitty subcompact glock and cheap suit. Autistic Screeching ensues. -Ending reminiscent to Invasion Of The Body Snatchers or the intro to 28 days later
Gavin Williams
The problem with this is that the action scenes are badly choreographed and the gunfights rather meh.
Caleb Gutierrez
I haven't watched it but I don't know how you could have an inferior antagonist compared to the first one. The mob boss in the first one and his dickhead son weren't exactly stand out villains.
Luis Clark
>Mentions funny shit, doesn't mention the ineffectual bitch fight between Keanu and the black assassin That shit reminded me of the fight scene from They Live. Not to mention, I was getting annoyed with the last fight scene too, because combining dynamic camerawork in a fucking mirror funhouse makes my eyes hurt like hell. Also >Wanting to fug a thicc old hag
Were there any good songs in this one at all? I still recognize the club songs from the first one, but I can't remember anything from the sequel.
Logan Anderson
I saw John Wick 2 in the theater and they were playing the audio so fucking loud I had to put earplugs in.
Jaxon White
I think your theater is a piece of shit if they're playing it that loud though, I can't think of a single point where my ears hurt.
Nathaniel Brown
What I really do like is the world building they did, they did have a few good jokes in there. But the main antagonist is a bit meh. My only problem with it is that they made it seems like 30 out of 100 people are assassins and making that bounty of 7 million seem pretty small imo for John wicks head.
Jason Butler
I made impromptu ones out of the little paper towels available, but it's more or less the same thing.
Yeah, that particular moment in the very last scene was definitely jumping the shark.
Justin Sanchez
Also is it me but there were some huge scenes that had pretty bad CGI. Wtf? Along with the poor car scene, granted it was better than the 1st one but they really need to get better shots of for a good car scene. So far not a lot of movies or any movie gets car scenes right. The soundtrack was meh, the 1st club scene had a better sound track. But they really did excel and did a bitter mini villan this time with the nigger, good scenes.
Nicholas Anderson
It was inSANE. I love how lightly edited it was compared to modern action flicks. So many scenes done in one take. The training Keanu underwent for the movie really shows, the awesome reloading and what not. When there is a proper HD version there is gonna be so much good wallpaper material from screenshots of the mirror fight alone.
I give it 10/10.
Alexander Parker
Suit yourself
Noah Howard
This, the mirror scene was really good, especially from a technical perspective
Kevin Anderson
I got a severe sense of deja vu to the Matrix Reloaded when all the weirder, unnecessary world building started popping up throughout the movie, that consequently lesser the previous film. >See that hobo? He's an assassin. >See everyone in this park? They're all assassins. I can only imagine the last scene being justified i if Winston simply called up every single assassin in the state of New York to show John just how badly he fucked up.
I mean John Wick only had a 2 million dollar bounty on his head in the first movie, that would double to 4 million if someone killed him breaking Continental rules. Considering how badly you're fucked if you break those rules, it makes Viggo look like a cheap bastard for only offering 4 million, and Ms. Perkins looks like even more of a chump and a retard for going for it, especially since she was apparently the only one who did. Does this mean that an ordinary job for these hitmen is around ~$100,000? Just how many homeless guys in New York are crack addicts versus secret rich assassins who slum it on the street in this universe?
Kayden Hill
Yea I know, but that didnt get across to one guy I was watching it with.
Hunter Hernandez
I just watched it with my sister. It was definitely better than the first film. It fixed the weak special effects. I liked how they gave hints for non-gun people so that they can appreciate the realism too. My main gripe with it is that it broke immersion because the film had the soap opera effect at particular points, but they'll fix it for the Bluray or digital release. Cinematography wasn't my favorite style until the last scene in the club.
I can't claim that they were badly choreographed, but they felt formulaic.
I'll give credit where it's due. The plot might be cartoony now, but it's at least believable in comparison to capeshit or XXX: Return of Xander Cage.
The first John Wick film felt very believable because shit like that constantly happened in criminal gangs, mainly in the Italian mafia. They were so powerful that they controlled the court and numerous businesses. Here's an embed biography about a hitman.
It felt too much like they took Keanu's 3gun matches and replaced the paper with people. Move bang bang move bang bang move bang bang reload fistfight. Everything about it is well done, but it's all different variations of the same core rhythm. Imagine if John Wick had to actually defend a point for an extended period, or had to consistently lay automatic suppressing fire against a number of foes, or run a significant game of cat and mouse against a much heavily armored squad or some professional sniper. Something that significantly changes the pace instead of "he's got a 1911 and less ammunition now" or "let's pander to everyone that saw keanu shredding it at the range". If they don't change it up, John Wick 3 would still be something I'd watch, but definitely not something I'd go though the trouble of watching in theaters.
Carter Bell
While you are true with that, I like how in many times we see shots come from multiple directions when he was in the tunnel and the concert in Rome. But you do bring up a good point which is why I liked the more 1 on one matches in the movie like when he was hand fighting the violin girl, the black guy, fatty, the 2 chinks etc. Those were the best parts of the film but when it got to the bigger areas like at the museum it kinda did get repetitive with bang bang etc. My favorite part would have to be when he was secretly shooting at the black guy and vis versa while walking it was very creative and well done. But their biggest accomplishment would have to be the world building about the underworld of assassins imo.
Though who was that in the beginning of the move that crashed that guy on the motorcycle and took something form his jacket???? is it a preview to the next movie?? or what? It makes no sense.
Matthew Bennett
Yeah, it felt like it had the same type of choreography and editing style. They're probably going to outdo themselves in the third film though. If they can make a tracking shot work, then I'll completely dig it.
Hudson King
It was Wick. He takes a keycard for the russian's place. He kills a russian biker to infiltrate the place quietly.
Brayden Phillips
Saw it. Breddy Gud, with a few flaws.
I didn't find the movie itself that loud, but the FUCKING ADS AND PREVIEWS were absolutely unbearable. And people wonder why no one bothers with the theater anymore.
Carson Gutierrez
I'm tired of the ninja-special forces-action.
Just give me old fistfights and some shitty cop trying to solve something again. Even John f'n McClane has become a super-hero.