2017 · action · crime · thriller
John Wick: Chapter 2
Directed by Chad Stahelski2h 2m2017
John Wick is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.
Our read: John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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