John Wick 2: Blood, blood & more blood

Cast: Keanu Reeves, Common, Laurence Fishburne, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ruby Rose, John Leguizamo, Ian McShane

Rated: 5/10

The big star is here but his movie is not the biggest one of this week. Keeanu Reeves is back as John Wick in this second installment of chase, kill, blood and gore mount, this time with a much higher body count.

Pulled out of retirement from an underground rogue organisation, by an unscrupulous brother wanting to kill his sister for an all-powerful ministerial seat, Reeves is literally singed out of his house and retirement and is made to do things he had left doing long before his wife died of health complications.

Reeves goes about doing his job as a bullet sprayer, fisticuffer and a silent killer without much ado. The film is not about him so much as it is about screechy but not scary car chases, continuous spraying of bullets, gory fights and a lot of eardrum-breaking noise.

The end is wantonly greedy and has no qualms of saying John Wick will be on the hunt again, this time as the hunted one whenever the director has the time and the money to turn three.

On the whole, a movie meant for extreme action buffs who are also into the Reeves kind of matrix.

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 19 February, 2017