'The man. The Myth. The legend. John Wick, you're not very good at retiring'
'I'm working on it'
John Wick: Chapter 2's is a silly assassin film in which Keanu Reeves shoots people impressively. It knows what it is and does a good job of riding the line between tongue in cheek and taking itself seriously most of the time. It manages to be funny not through joke jokes but through straight-faced ridiculousness.
It's one of those 'last job' movies which focuses on John Wick getting out of the assassin agency he works for - the hotel in the first movie where he gets guns and stuff. A lot of the story comes from the rules of the assassin club and leads to some amusing silliness. There's lots of assassin-on-assassin action taking place in busy New York which is great. The action is well shot; you feel the punches and the camera often lingers long enough for you to see that Keanu's gotten pretty good at the whole fighting thing, though sometimes it looks confusing and doesn't really read.
The only real problems are with the script; the first half drags a little and some plot points were too unrealistic for this movie, often being a case of 'this happens because the script says so', and it doesn't get away with it because it's knowingly B-movie material.
Minor criticisms aside it's a fun, well-filmed action movie that's worth seeing in the cinema.
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