
Rent John Wick: Chapter Two (2017)
John Wick 2- Actors:
- Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ian McShane et al.
- Directors:
- Chad Stahelski
- Voiced By:
- Emmanuel Todorov, Peter Arpesella
- Runtime:
- DVD: 117 min., Blu-ray: 122 min., 4K Blu-ray: 122 min.
- Availability:
- DVD, Blu-ray, 4K Blu-ray
- Synopsis:
Legendary hit-man John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is forced out of retirement again by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins' guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome, where he squares off against some of the world's deadliest killers.
- Actors:
- Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ian McShane, Ruby Rose, Common, Claudia Gerini, Lance Reddick, Laurence Fishburne, Tobias Segal, John Leguizamo, Bridget Moynahan, Thomas Sadoski, Erik Frandsen, David Patrick Kelly, Perry Yung, Franco Nero, Youma Diakite, Peter Serafinowicz, Luca Mosca, Midori Nakamura
- Directors:
- Chad Stahelski
- Producers:
- Basil Iwanyk, Erica Lee
- Voiced By:
- Emmanuel Todorov, Peter Arpesella
- Writers:
- Derek Kolstad
- Year:
- 2017
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action Thrillers, Crime Thrillers, Action Crime
Members reviews voted most helpful
John Wick is Brilliant.... - John Wick: Chapter Two review by JB
If you enjoyed the first film then this is a must see, action all the way through with a good cast and storyline... leaving it open for another Chapter. Highly recommended with a strong performance from Keanu Reeves.
Turn up the Wick - John Wick: Chapter Two review by NC
If liked 1 will like 2. Just find the films a bit banal. Reeves is deadpan all the way. Totally invincible to any bullets, so may as well have a coloured suit on. Suit up for Marvel.
None of the opposition can apparently shoot, and like to run at his bullets. How many guards do they have at any one house/event? Must have shot over 100 in quick succession. Mostly exploding heads for greater effects staff to do their thing.
At least in Transporter films Jason IS actually fit, slightly funny, and does some slick driving scenes. Fractionally more intelligent action film........next up to that would be the Bournes, which try not to be too stupidly incredible.............
Fun but nonsensical - John Wick: Chapter Two review by MB
This is a great vehicle for Keanu, who's always at his best when he doesn't really need to act but gets to move. I love his habit during the film's (many) gunfights of holding one enemy down while killing others before slaying the one he's got a grip of. The plot makes absolutely no sense, but I guess the point is to get John as quickly as possible from tranquility to acts of killing, and in that sense it works well enough.
Recent reviews by members
Crap - John Wick: Chapter Two review by RH
Not a patch on the first one
How many people can a person kill in a film
Couldn’t be bothered to count up
Hollywood dribble
"in my top five of worst films ever" - John Wick: Chapter Two review by PT
this is what my girlfriend said to me when this movie finished,and i have to say,for once i totally agree with her!!i we watched the first one when it came out,nothing spectacular,but a sat nite no brainer.wanting another no brainer this weekend we got this.oh dear,oh very dear!!i could have turned it off half way through and not been bothered.if you are a thirteen year old boy who lives on his xbox,you may enjoy this.unfortunately for me and the gf,we have spoilt ourselves watching brilliant world cinema,and indie films.john wick 2,is right down there with taken 2,battleship,and transformers.the worst film keanu has ever done.
Complete and Asolute Garbage - John Wick: Chapter Two review by CW
This has to be up there with top 5 worst films that I’ve ever seen, ever.
Everything is awful, the story/plot, the acting, the sound, the script and the shooting accuracy most of all.
A lot of people have a quite different opinion to me and the frightening thing is that these same people get to vote on critical national matters. FRIGHTENING
All other members reviews
Good action movie for a night in! - John Wick: Chapter Two review by CS
Following on from the first movie, this is an all action movie, in much the same vein as the first. Slick, stylish, fast paced, action throughout. Not a lot of originality, lots of fighting and the usual hand to hand combat. But enjoyable, with some smart sets, scenes and good stunts. the actors all play their parts well and the whole comes together nicely. i thought the ending was a bit damp, but in all an enjoyable film to watch!
Classic throwaway action. - John Wick: Chapter Two review by JG
Full on choreographed fight and action sequences, with a mystical "the firm" code overtone.
Throwaway thrills. Loved it.
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John Wick: Chapter Two Review
Keanu Reeves has finally found one of his best roles in his return to the character of John Wick. He’s never been a master of dialogue, but that’s just fine for such an action picture with a simple premise and elaborate sequences. He doesn’t have to deliver long and dull passages of his intent to kill; he just needs to get to the point and be an intimidating force of bullets and knives. And in his most trim of new suits, with a cold desire to kill in his eyes, he’s certainly one of the most intense action heroes of the 21st century that doesn’t waste his bullets or our time.
John Wick 2 continues the story of the not-quite-retired assassin, still not done with his revenge path. If you’ll recall, Wick’s kill quest was started after Russian mobsters shot up his dog and stole his car. Having taken out the man who killed his canine, Wick 2 opens with him taking back his car from the current gangster possessors. As with any task in the world of Wick, this is not an easy means of taking back his car, nor is it a simple action scene. Everything you need to know about the titular gunman and the sequel is made clear in this sequence, as Peter Stormare recaps with his associates while John (Reeves) lays waste to gangster after gangster, while being smashed into by car after car. It’s a ridiculous scene of overkill, but played up with such a tongue-in-cheek unflappable nature that I couldn’t help but enjoy its construction.
His car back in his possession, Wick’s revenge has been completed. He repairs his car and gets a new dog in his life. If only life were so simple. Of course, an associate from his past has come to collect debt that was formed in a blood pact of sorts. Wick refuses and has his house demolished. Don’t worry, the dog survives. Had he not, Wick would’ve probably leveled the entire crime world. He’s content enough to negotiate after such an ordeal with a higher crime boss (Ian McShane), but won’t receive much help. Stuck with an assassination job, Wick makes the most of it. After all, he gets to travel abroad, don a fancy suit, attend an outdoor concert at Roman ruins and gets to secretly assassinate someone with a fancy new armada of firearms. But, of course, it can’t be an easy mission, eventually leading to John Wick once more being a target of criminals.
For the first half of the picture, Wick 2 is a stylish and fast-paced action picture with some great cinematography and a simple enough story. But in the second half, the film goes for broke by throwing as much crazy crap as it can at the screen to an absurd degree. After a hit is placed on Wick, New York City turns into a city of killers, where it seems as though every pedestrian is an assassin bent on taking him out. Some of the colorful characters of the crime world include an old nemesis of Cassian, played straight by Common, and the tough negotiator of crime lord The Bowery King, played by Laurence Fishburne with more enthusiasm than I’ve seen out of him in years as a boss of underground bums. Franco Nero returns as hotel manager Julius, who has learned from the last film not to mess with Wick’s dog, and Ruby Rose plays the silent killer Ares, speaking only in sign language and letting her bad-ass style of killing do the talking.
Unlike most action movies that throw everything and the kitchen sink at the screen, director Chad Stahelski has the decency to polish the porcelain before chucking it at us. There are plenty of action sequences with violence both efficiently smart and hilariously overblown, but they all look gorgeous. The entire sequence where Wick flees from his attackers in Roman ruins features some amazing lighting for a shootout location I wouldn’t usually expect out of these movies. Wick will later lead some assassins into an art museum’s house of mirrors exhibit that plays wonderfully with perspective, but never becomes so disoriented that we lose sight of the battle. And though Wick’s road of revenge is filled with dozens upon dozens of bullets in brains, fists in faces and pencils in ears, there always felt as though there were an element of control, as if Stahelski was constructing an action ballet of perfectly coordinated moves.
John Wick 2 is such a romp of an action picture that has the refinement of an intellectual with the wild imagination of an adrenaline junkie. It may not topple the previous film, but it certainly maintains that unequal precision and focus of it simple tale of revenge, making me all the more eager for the eventual third film in the trilogy. In an age when most frenetic action films are tagged as dumb fun, this is pure fun you can count on not destroying your brain cells.
DVD details
- BBFC:
- Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
- Release Date:
- 12/06/2017
- Run Time:
- 117 minutes
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Format:
- Pal
- Colour:
- Colour
- Languages:
- English, English Audio Description
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing
- Special features:
- Deleted Scenes
Blu-ray details
- BBFC:
- Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
- Release Date:
- 12/06/2017
- Run Time:
- 122 minutes
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Format:
- Pal
- Colour:
- Colour
- Languages:
- English, English Audio Description
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Special features:
- Deleted Scenes
- Car Fu Ride-Along
- Retrowick: Exploring the Unexpected Success off Wick
- Training John Wick
- Beat Down: Evolution of a Fight Scene
- Plus More Action-Packed Extras
4K Blu-ray details
- BBFC:
- Suitable only for persons of 18 years and over
- Release Date:
- 12/06/2017
- Run Time:
- 122 minutes
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.40:1
- Format:
- Pal
- Colour:
- Colour
- Languages:
- English, English Audio Description
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Special features:
- Deleted Scenes
- Car Fu Ride-Along
- Audio Commentary by Keanu Reeves and Director Chad Stahelski
- Retrowick: Exploring the Unexpected Success off Wick
- Training John Wick
- Beat Down: Evolution of a Fight Scene
- Plus More Action-Packed Extras
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