Of course bad guys being bad guys, D’Antonio double-crosses Wick and orders a hit on him for Gianna’s death! Another big mistake. For D’Antonio’s sister Gianna (Claudia Gerini), was willed her seat when their father died and, greedy mobster that he is, he wants it for himself and orders Wick to kill her.

In the middle of a power struggle for a seat at the High Table, a council of international criminals, Italian mobster Santino D’Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio) calls in his marker, a debt that Wick owed when he asked for D’Antonio’s help to “retire”. And what do you know, discovering that Wick came out of retirement to avenge his dog (in the first film) someone wants to call in a marker and essentially FORCE Wick to do his bidding! Big mistake. You see, the hitman fraternity apparently has rules: one of which is that “all markers must be honoured”. The answer doesn’t take long.īuilding on the “assassin network” mythology from the first movie, John Wick: Chapter 2 uses this mythology to force Wick back into action. John heads back to the gang who stole his car – beating up an army of hard men before declaring peace with Peter Stormare’s gangster boss Abram… Thinking Wick is free to live a peaceful life again, audiences are left to wonder just how and why Wick is going to be back in action once more. And so three years later we finally get a sequel.įrom the same writer/director team as the first film, Derek Kolstad and Chad Stahelski respectively, John Wick: Chapter 2 picks up where the first film left off.

However there was something about the stoic, unstoppable hitman John Wick that resonated with audiences across the globe. And that’s not to say that either of those films were sub-par, far from it. The third in a trilogy of action movies Keanu Reeves made in 2013/4, John Wick succeeded where 47 Ronin and The Man of Tai Chi (in which Reeves played the villain) didn’t. Stars: Keanu Reeves, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ian McShane, Ruby Rose, Common, Claudia Gerini, Lance Reddick, Laurence Fishburne, Tobias Segal, John Leguizamo | Written by Derek Kolstad | Directed by Chad StahelskiĢ014′s John Wick took pretty much everyone by surprise.

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