I found it really hilarious when Lawrence Fishburne's character starts laughing on the roof-top and then on the next scene in the basement/locker room he continues laughing. I imagined them going down the stairs or riding a cramped elevator while he's still laughing. lol
It's makes it easy to like, Keanu Reeves is such a zen human being, treats others like people, and doesn't think he is better than others. Very easy to root for this guy.
The movie became gold right when Keanu and Common had their passive-aggressive gunfight in the subway station, amongst the crowd. Just kinda...casually flinging shots at each other and everyone acting like nothing happened.
CubanBeast oh man I know. he seems so casual at first walking, but then he notices all the phones going off knowing they're about his excomunicado and you can see the worry as he starts running full speed. such a powerful ending I think.
It was the $14 million bounty from killing 2 high council members (or soon-to-be members) that he was running from, lol. Excommunicado itself didn't put out the bounty. That just gave Winston the option to execute him for breaking the rules if he chose to, which Winston chose NOT to. Explained literally by Winston at the end.
At the beginning sequence, when they show Peter Stormare, I had the biggest smile because he played Satan in Constantine where Keanu plays John Constantine. It was like 2 reunions (obviously it wasn't as big as the Matrix reunion of characters)
TheKhal Petet is known as playing a great bad guy. Peter was a russian drug lord in Bad Boys 2 also. Peters been in Fargo, The big Lebowski, Constantine, The Brothers Grimm, Armageddon, Hansel and Gretel, so yes he is very well known and to add him to John Wick story line and live to make peace with John just shows how he will play out in the third one.
The Movie series should end with the line "You're gonna carry that weight." I will NOT accept any other endings "Peroid!" For those who don't get this reference, here is my reasons: 1.Cowboy Bebop's ending is classic and epic, it is the best ending for an assassin, both sad and heroic. 2. Based on the lore of the movie, Rules above all, and who breaks it has to pay, and the only consequence is DEATH. 3. Keanu Reeves and Spike Spiegel, they are the perfect match, and John Wick series could be the only chance Keanu be as close as Spike on the big screen. Since Keanu had already turned down the role few years back.
I noticed that too. At different points he'd sometimes hold up part of his suit jacket over the rest of him, like grabbing the side of your jacket and lifting it up in front of you like a shield. There were a lot of cool, tiny little details like that thrown in this movie, even when they pass by super fast and are barely noticed. I liked that attention to detail even if everything wasn't completely realistic, lol.
How does it top it? It's not even similar. Joker's pencil scene was a joke scene, a "trick". John Wick's pencil scene was a fight scene. It's like saying a car chase scene tops a car sex scene. Both include cars, but how the hell does that make them comparable?
I just liked how he stabbed that first guy in the chest with the first pencil, and by the time that guy finally pulls that pencil out of his chest, John Wick immediately replaces it with the other pencil.
Sure its not three men but "its maaaagggiiiccaaal." bah you got what i'm trying to say, the pencil thing started with Joker and tbh, as awesome the John Wick movies are, the Joker pencil scene is epic on another level.
Another thing I loved about this film were the western style "stand offs." Like when John met Cassian in this movie. It was like those old western cowboy films where they have those 1 vs 1 "quick-draw" showdowns, but this time the directors brought that to the modern day. Love this film!
Magazines, not clips. Clips are tiny metal strips that hold a row of bullet's together, magazines are box-like containers that use a spring to push bullets into the chamber of a full and or semi automatic firearm. Nearly all modern guns use magazines instead of clips nowadays.
+green house You just says "mags" for short. There's never an excuse for a soldier to incorrectly says "clips" when it's not actually a clip. You don't even save any time compared to saying the correct "mags." You can't even use that as an excuse since mags and clips are just the same amount of time and syllables to say, lol. You might as well use the right one if you're not ignorant deep down.
Joe is too controlling of these reviews he keeps telling other Joe when he is right or wrong it's annoying your not right about everything. Like with John and Cassian being friends. They were friends until John killed his ward
I would disagree with you of Cassian being friends. Unlike in the first movie where the character of William Dafoe had John Wicks back. They were friends, because even near the end after rejecting the contract, he would not give up Wick, which costed him his life. Like what Joe said referring to Cassian, they just had a mutual respect for each other. You could be right also. I just didn't really see much friendship besides knowing each other's drinks.
The moment I saw the original trailer for this movie I groaned at the presence of another dog, I thought it was a foregone conclusion that it was going to die. Really pleased that they didn't kill the dog.
Chapter 3 might take place an hour after 2 (which was two weeks after JW). Aurelio shows up with a new car near the beginning of the movie (early chase/fights, dog tears shit up), he jumps in the car and looks in the dash.. it's a fucking pencil, sharpened to perfection. John Wick with a pencil vs the world.
Erok9 yeah....but like Joe said, John is clearly a level 10 assassin, the others are clearly level 1-3, Cassian maybe level 6-8 and Ruby Rose is a level 4.5 but wishes she was a level 10.
nodinitiative I love that Ruby's character act all badass and shit, when in reality she's really not that strong, she mostly relied on her henchmen. Common put up a better fight than her, they should have make him the end boss fight instead of Ruby.
holyflame2 I think Ruby's assassin skill would be like someone you don't expect to kill you. For John was almosnt killed in a tunnel area by a violinist assassin lol. Plus, the movie could have used her small size to her advantage in a gun fight, its not easy trying to shoot a small and slim person. At least the movie didnt overdid it with her. I'm surprise Joe didnt bring up the only BS of the movie, that "silencer" scene.
Erok9 No that part is explained with common sense, John wick was being followed by them all, each waiting for their chance, staying as close as possible.
I say there needs to be 2 more John Wick movies, the third one is the end to this story and the 4th is a prequel. I want to see how this impossible task went down.
to be honest, we don't need to see the impossible task, its better off to leave it as a mistery/ambiguos way , because it's going to be hard to top the hype from the stories.
Rule 2 of guns: If you have checked and double checked and know for sure that it is unloaded, it is still very much loaded Rule 3: STILL LOADED, DON'T AIM UNLESS YOU WANNA KILL. Rule 4: Aim only at things you are prepared to shoot, like the ground.
well John doesn't really go for headshots immediately. he shoots the body to stun them and then shoots them in the head. this is, what i was seeing throughout the first and second movie.
Who else loves the scene where the russian boss explains again the babayaga thing and the killing three men in a bar with a pencil? At first I was scared like the movie would suck and it would stick too much on the original, but then, the boss's henchman interupts like "yeah i already know that" which was like what i was already thinking, and then the boss was like yeah " who the fuck does that!?"... and it was surprisingly hilarious! 😂
Really loved the movie honestly, This is a day one Blu-ray buy from me. I have to say though I'm not sure most people noticed but I really did like the ending I know it's pretty unrealistic but I think that's not the message they were putting out but the message that this organization in a way is something like Illuminati the only thing being Wick is trying to break from that society. So I think it makes you think on that level but still all around amazing action paying homage to previous action films while still knowing that it's a Wick film. Easily John Wick is the some of the best action films in the last years. Also Keanu is definitely a inspiration.
Zen Razor the ending of the film blew my mind... Winston controls the city and the scene where all the people stop moving and stare at Wick just shows how big the organization is... all the people getting text alerts and John starts running because he has one hour... it gave me chills.
Story wise & world building, the 2nd one is better but the action scenes in the first were smoother and better. Here on 2, there are a lot of times that people hunting him could've easily killed him. That said, 2 had a much better ending. Both films were really good.
Rafael Ramirez theres surgeons sitting on trains? A man stabbed through the heart has the energy to run to a hospital? And he said IF YOU PULL THIS OUT YOU DIE. Not a surgeon will save you before you bleed out
I'm gonna call it and say the third one is gonna be him destroying the international orders and forming a new order out of the ashes, or dying with the orders.
Ruby Rose kinda died pretty quickly though, i really thought she'd put up a heck of a lot more fight though but 5 seconds into the fight, you kinda like telling yourself "shes really struggling..." 10 seconds in and "oh man, now she really knows she bit off more than she could chew and shes positivelyfucked. But even that, it actually kinda make the movie even more epic somehow even if its not the epic showdown/"last boss" scenario you were expecting. Thats how well-made the movie is, the scenes are so well though out and they all gel so good... a deserving 10/10.
One part of me wants the John Wick franchise to stop after the third one so it isn't burnt out , another part of me wants them to continue upon the lore somehow. The creators of John Wick opened up a world with so much potential story , not just with John Wick specifically but the entire John Wick universe. It's going to be hard to close up such an interesting world with just one more two hour movie.
On the one hand it's probably better to leave it unexplained, like a painting relying on negative space. On the other hand I think any spin offs or expansions should still show more of it, but never show everything.
Johns fighting was better this time around too. In the house fight in the beginning of the first movie as soon as he has no gun it takes him longer to take people down and he nearly got destroyed twice by the main bodyguard of reek but this time with ease he is taking people out in hand to hand as well so he felt more rounded. In the first he seemed more deadly with guns but now he seemed deadly with just any situation which felt more like the baba yaga people talk about. I did not get that impression as much in the first one. Also I think the point of mending relationships and calling a peace truce with Vigo's brother in the beginning is the director's way of saying they might be some kind of potential ally in the future for john and a safe haven. Maybe I don't know.
Just think of the first one as him being his first stint right out of retirement. He was rusty. Now, after dealing with all the crap in the first movie, he's a little less rusty and the true Baba Yaga shines through a bit more.
Chapter 3 probably starts off with John rushing to his burned out house to retrieve his weapon stash. From there, it would be a full on war with other assassins.
Yeah, I get that feeling too. It's like, how do you survive the world going after you? They'd have to kill him off at some point. It'd be poetic in a way. John Wick's only way out of the crime world is death. When he's alive, he will always be known as the boogyman whether he likes it or not.
A few quick points for clarification, and please correct me if I'm wrong: The marker helped Wick to get out, but wasn't the reason he was allowed out. I took it that it allowed him to leverage more resources or perhaps it kept the Italian mob from encroaching on the Russian mob territories which allowed Wick to establish the Russian mob to a point where he could leave. The rules of the marker state that you have to honor the marker. if you don't, you're killed. If you kill the holder of the marker, you're killed. and if you don't execute the demand against the marker, then you're killed. This is why Wick shot his mark despite her slitting her wrists and then didn't go after the brother until his marker was cleared by Winston. Winston explained this when Wick first went to meet him to talk about the marker (the "stay" scene).
The only part you're incorrect on is the reason the marker exists. The Marker is simply a blood contract, a favor. John needed the mob boss' help to actually execute his impossible task. Manpower, resources, equipment, etc. In return for the help, he had to promise a favor at a later date. BUT. The boss knew that John was trying to retire, so as long as John was retired, he was holding the marker as inactive and ineligible for him to call in the favor. When John annihilated the Tarasovs, from John's perspective he hadn't actually come out of retirement, since that was an entirely personal matter. The boss had a different view, so he blew up John's house for refusing to stay out of retirement long enough to do his job. He worked for the Tarasovs before, not as a bodyguard with a ward like how Joe assumes, but as an actual cleaner. He wanted to retire and in return he had to do basically do a job that would give him full control over New York's underworld. He needed to put the favor in with the Marker in order to complete that job and retire.
He actually does cover his head with his bullet-proof jacket several times, though. Also, the bullet-proof lining seems to be something of a token gift from the tailor, him being the only one having it.
I think there will be many lower tier assassins after him. but 3 major Assassins after him non-stop like their skill level is like 11/10 And by the end of the movie i think john might figure out a way to fake his own death. Also i think common might help him out in key moment just out of the fact that he let him live. Just like he let the other underground leader live.
Although I loved 99% of the film,I felt the decision to kill San'tdAntonio in the Continental hotel was kinda contrevesial.He broke the rules and got outcast.He coulda at least wait until he left the hotel or drag him out by his hair and then kill him outside...
I thought that was the perfect way to raise all stakes even higher because he broke the sacred rule and it was the perfect way to set up for the 3rd movie.
Reaver I'm pretty sure dragging him out the hotel is against the rules lol. That guy probably would have stayed there forever if John Wick didn't kill him. Plus i think it's a great setup for another movie. otherwise, why would he still be working?
The thing is that staying in the Continental would probably make it impossible for him to take his seat at the table. So he'd either have to leave sometime and expose himself, or hide and watch his power fade away.
They showed in the movie that the Continental has a safe passage service, which John uses after the bar scene with Cassian and Ruby's character. I doubt they'd refuse someone as high profile as him to use that same service.
Keanu is really underrated actor. After Dracula people started to treat him in a most shitty way possible, like calling him the worse actor and they're still doing that. Lol, look how pathetic some critics are, they can't admit he gives a great performance in some of his movies. Did they ever watch the movies like Gift, River's Edge, My own private Idaho, Point Break, Speed, Constantine, Scanner Darkly, Street Kings and of course John Wick and it's sequel? I'm not talking about the quality of these flicks, I'm talking about his acting. Yes, he's not Robert De Niro, but give him a good director and he can make a role his own.
John Wick is going to die. There's no way he can have a happy ending with his rep. I think he's going to fight tooth and nail though (and he will). Love this movie.
I think my favorite part was when the man in charge of the Italy continental asked John if he was going to assassinate the pope before he allowed him to stay.
Hollowpoints & certain other rounds tend to not over penetrate people, so less collateral damage That aside, I'd love a crossover with the payday gang in movie 3, but only if it was 1 scene. It opens with him running from the assassins, comes across some guys in masks in a van, they give him a ride, then cut to him getting dropped off & giving them back a mask and then we get our movie
movie got better the longer it went. That ending was epic. You can feel the dread and magnitude of what hes up against via facial expression, the extras, and camera. I thought it was for sure better then the first.
The first professional courtesy was him paying for the drinks I thought. Then later on when they fight on the subway, Wick had stuck a knife into him and said the knife is in his aurora, he could either take it out and fight Wick and bleed out and die, or leave it in there and get help. That was his professional courtesy, the same thing he did to Laurence Fishburne's character where he gave him an option to hold the wound on his neck and get help, or let it go and bleed out trying to kill Wick...
The way Johns gun skills could be explained is that he has "Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat" meaning "Fortune Favors The Bold" tattooed on his back, which I believe is the motto of 3rd Battalion Marines.
John Wick gets head shots only after he immobilizes his targets. Just review all his kills, he either hits them in the body or legs first and then hits them in the head.
I only like the series because it has Keanu Reeves in it. The man deserves some screen time from all the horrible things that have happened to him. But to be really honest, Reeves can/should get better roles... Action movies are awesome, but I feel the need for innovation. Hollywood has become stale and predictable.
Wick kills 133 people in that movie. 132 if you discount him putting a bullet in the sisters head only after she slit her wrists. He only killed 77 people in the last movie. Amazing action for an amazing movie.
@AngryJoeShow did you know the scene the sisters kills her self is how Romans used to kill themselves in the past, with both wrist slit, naked and their body positioned like that in a tub, dont forget where they were when this happened. pretty cool little thing alot of people will miss.
you guys was right, movie was soooooooooo good, but i noticed he does the same, thing he flips someone over, break a arm or what not and shoot them in the head, he does this alot in every fight scene.
Missile launcher? That's clearly a grenade launcher... The way to explain why he doesn't get shot in head is because people are trained to shoot centermass, it's most likely to hit and most likely to kill(head is hard to hit even if stationary, especially with pistols).
I think that the marker he was given will somehow be instrumental in lifting his excommunication while teaming up with another assassin to finally retire.
Theory for John Wick 3's plot: As an underworld outlaw (as in the original definition of "The protections of the law no longer apply to this person"), John Wick will be a major chess piece in the implied upcoming war between The Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne) and the High Table (the council of crime lords in charge of this underworld) with Winston and the Continental playing a key part. Not only does it add an extra layer of intrigue with John not knowing who he can trust and where the next threat or assistance will come from, John Wick's skills will be put to use furthering the plots/story of one or both sides of this underworld war.
For the question of the Continental Hotels and their owners and how they pertain to the Assassin's Council, I think they're treated more like sovereign kingdoms within that world. Each Continental Hotel proprietor, be it Winston or Julius, run their Hotels adhering to certain principles, but as a separate entity within the assassin world, they don't answer to the council directly.
One scene that bothered me is when John and Cassian, I think it was, were shooting eachother in a subway, and everyone else was absolutely blind and deaf. Come on, yeah they used supressors, but that doesnt make the guns silent, or the bullets hitting the walls. Other than that, yes I enjoyed the hell out of the movie. Movies like Rambo defined action of the 80s, John Wick defines action of the 2010s.
Dr. Deltality I'll give a simple explanation. it's John wicks world. the police know about the assassin's. the citizens also know about them. reason they aren't bothered by it is because they know the assassin's have a code of honor and respect. they will try not to get innocent people involve. normal people have nothing to worry about since assassin's have a specific target.
You missed the subtext that weapons scene slightly. That man was referred to as a "sommelier", which means a wine master. So when he asked for a firearm to PAIR with dinner and desert and such, the back and forth discussion sounded like talk about wine, while discussing handguns, assault rifles, shotguns, and combat knives. Amusing bit of cultural injection into a scene about gearing up to kill people, especially paired with the suit fitting scenes it was interspersed with.
The Continental is a self governing body. A league of assassins so to speak or a workers union with rules. The crime syndicates use the services provided by The Continental. The heads of the criminal organizations who have exclusive membership are given a unique identifier number to use whenever they call for a hit. Once issued and accepted, the conditions are binding. Upon successful completion of the contract, the issuer must abide by the contract and pay the assassin the stipulated amount. In addition, blood markers are used if the assassin approaches a neutral crime organization for aid (eg. Information needed to make the hit on another organization), and the crime lord deems that it is a debt that must be repaid. The Continental records and actively keeps track of such debts, but remains completely neutral in such matters.
I bet the black guy at the Hotel (the one with the cool voice who watched his dog) is some John Wick level assassin too. He successfully retired though. It would explain all of the obvious respect. It'd be cool to find out that his nickname was "The Reaper" or something like that. Possibly, just possibly, his nickname was also "The Boogey man" and John was tasked with taking him down. The impossible task? Notice, in the first movie, he was described as "No, not really the boogey man. He's the one you send to /kill/ the boogey man.". BUT THAT'S JUST A THEORY. A FILM THEORY.
I think the third film s going to focus on "old friends" (such as Aurelio) trying to cover him (despite the rules), but what I would love is to have a villain in the same level of John Wick, make him have his own sequence against Fishburne's men, that would be awesome.
The black dude plays a character from the wire which is awesome and I was so hyped because he's awesome. Also played one of bad guys in Quantum break that I just played so seeing him straight away in John wick is like ahh nice to see you gettting work brother.
That pencil scene though
The audience for me was like oh shit! lmao
the ear tho!:0
Domingo J same lol
vizueto69 He shouldn't have ask John for a Ear cleaning if he can't handle that level
My theater went batshit crazy in that scene lol.
I found it really hilarious when Lawrence Fishburne's character starts laughing on the roof-top and then on the next scene in the basement/locker room he continues laughing. I imagined them going down the stairs or riding a cramped elevator while he's still laughing. lol
ziib123 SAME I was like wow he's still laughing
John Wick series will end up with him arriving at the International Space Station. Plot twist: All the astronauts are assassins there.
Adolfo Garza Lmfao
The contract isn't just international, it's... interplanetary.
the contracts aren't just interplanetary....they are intergalactic.
Darkest Knight the contracts aren't just intergalactic... They are interuniversal
John Wick VS Riddick..... hey ya never know....
It's makes it easy to like, Keanu Reeves is such a zen human being, treats others like people, and doesn't think he is better than others. Very easy to root for this guy.
Yeah, he seems like a really friendly approachable guy. If Keanu was a fallout character, he'd have max charisma
Canadian Turtle.
John Wick: Chapter 3: Give Him a Break.
I wanna buy a bunch of those gold foil chocolate coins and see if they get me into a secret society behind the Arby's.
Snailbarf they'll get you an ass beatin
Or a blowy xD
The movie became gold right when Keanu and Common had their passive-aggressive gunfight in the subway station, amongst the crowd. Just kinda...casually flinging shots at each other and everyone acting like nothing happened.
Ian Roberts I liked it when they first met when john was walking away and they had that convo with a completely different meaning
Holy shit I enjoyed it too
The fucking EPIC legendary pencil scene!!
kc2788x Pencil scene in J.W. 2 or Pen scene in bourne identity?
bwill123 why would he be talking about one in a Jason Bourne movie when this is a JW chapter 2 review? Use your common sense
JW2 pencil scene by a wide margin.
kc2788x the bodies he buried, lay the foundation of what we are today
the dick stab or the ear? XD
Wick was honestly scared at the end when he realized how many assassins where after him. Amazing movie
CubanBeast oh man I know. he seems so casual at first walking, but then he notices all the phones going off knowing they're about his excomunicado and you can see the worry as he starts running full speed. such a powerful ending I think.
How would you react when you have no one to trust but your dog? lol.
It was the $14 million bounty from killing 2 high council members (or soon-to-be members) that he was running from, lol. Excommunicado itself didn't put out the bounty. That just gave Winston the option to execute him for breaking the rules if he chose to, which Winston chose NOT to. Explained literally by Winston at the end.
Deathbrewer excommunicado also ment he couldn't go back to any of the hotels or places controlled by Winston. Basically he has nowhere to hide.
I wonder to what use the Marker will be? Winston gave Santino's marker to John at the end but not a single hint as to how it will help him in any way
At the beginning sequence, when they show Peter Stormare, I had the biggest smile because he played Satan in Constantine where Keanu plays John Constantine. It was like 2 reunions (obviously it wasn't as big as the Matrix reunion of characters)
TheKhal It would be even better if John give him the finger again as he leaves.
Keanu and Peter Stormare now acted in 3 movies together: Constantine, Henry's Crime, John Wick 2. They obviously like to work together.
I knew he looked familiar. Couldn't put my finger on it.
TheKhal I was mad he wasnt the villain. Stormare is the best at an over the top Russian accent
TheKhal Petet is known as playing a great bad guy. Peter was a russian drug lord in Bad Boys 2 also. Peters been in Fargo, The big Lebowski, Constantine, The Brothers Grimm, Armageddon, Hansel and Gretel, so yes he is very well known and to add him to John Wick story line and live to make peace with John just shows how he will play out in the third one.
Actually John Wick chapter 3 was officially greenlit before chapter 2 was released. They were literally setting up for a 3rd movie.
It hints that The studio guys watched the first cut and go banana/fangirl over it like us all so they greelit Chapter 3. Hehehe.
Small Loan Of A Million Dollars he’s gonna die in the next one. I wouldn’t even be mad.
FALSE
The trailer for John Wick chapter 3 came out yesterday.
it should have ended with john wick sending an email for assistance. and plot twist the person who recieves the email is the equalizer
Sorry, but NO!
The Email should go to the now Former Agent 47 (Based on the ending of the newest Hitman Movie).
rikoudu Perez lol some crossover fanfiction was propably allready written
the newest hitman does not fit this world, it would have to be the more down to earth and honestly better movie with timothy olyphant
Then he goes to get his taxes done by The Accountant
The Movie series should end with the line "You're gonna carry that weight." I will NOT accept any other endings "Peroid!"
For those who don't get this reference, here is my reasons:
1.Cowboy Bebop's ending is classic and epic, it is the best ending for an assassin, both sad and heroic.
2. Based on the lore of the movie, Rules above all, and who breaks it has to pay, and the only consequence is DEATH.
3. Keanu Reeves and Spike Spiegel, they are the perfect match, and John Wick series could be the only chance Keanu be as close as Spike on the big screen. Since Keanu had already turned down the role few years back.
Also the thing about headshots is if you notice, a lot of time Wick draped his suit over his head and face for protection in certain combat scenes.
so true man. so true. some people didn't notice that though.
xCaspow ya in the caves or catacombs area
Brandon Yan His entire suit had that synthetic armor stuff. He ducks his head behind it and holds part of it up to protect his head
I noticed that too. At different points he'd sometimes hold up part of his suit jacket over the rest of him, like grabbing the side of your jacket and lifting it up in front of you like a shield. There were a lot of cool, tiny little details like that thrown in this movie, even when they pass by super fast and are barely noticed. I liked that attention to detail even if everything wasn't completely realistic, lol.
Brandon Yan It is not an invincibility suit lol
That pencil scene TOPS Jokers pencil scene
Dormammu Yes. Yes it does.
How about a magic trick? John Wick will make 3 guys dead in a heartbeat... and ta'daaaam... they are goooone.
How does it top it? It's not even similar. Joker's pencil scene was a joke scene, a "trick". John Wick's pencil scene was a fight scene. It's like saying a car chase scene tops a car sex scene. Both include cars, but how the hell does that make them comparable?
I just liked how he stabbed that first guy in the chest with the first pencil, and by the time that guy finally pulls that pencil out of his chest, John Wick immediately replaces it with the other pencil.
Ikr
"He killed three men in a bar with a pencil. With a fucking pencil! Who the fuck does that?" - Best line! :D
I tell you who. The Joker.
Sure its not three men but "its maaaagggiiiccaaal."
bah you got what i'm trying to say, the pencil thing started with Joker and tbh, as awesome the John Wick movies are, the Joker pencil scene is epic on another level.
prabjhooti ummm Jason Bourne can.
Clearly, in Chapter 3 he will have to kill all 7 billion assassins in the world.
XerBlade Yeah, my main gripe. EVERYONE is an assassin?
XerBlade lol
Soon it will be 7 trillion
Nah he’s fuckin dead
Easy for John.
Another thing I loved about this film were the western style "stand offs." Like when John met Cassian in this movie. It was like those old western cowboy films where they have those 1 vs 1 "quick-draw" showdowns, but this time the directors brought that to the modern day. Love this film!
Fun fact: Silencers are actually quite loud still in real life. They just bring the sound below the threshold of hearing damage
John Cummings yes, but maybe with subsonic rounds it might be better. Although I don't think it's that quiet.
Maybe they were shooting subsonic 22lr rounds. :)
Haha, yeah. subsonic 22lr is quieter than the firing pin hitting the cartridge. I love using them.
yea silencers are not nearly that quiet in real life but it such a movie trope now that i let it slide.
MSmart19 the patent for the first one called it a silencer. Dickhead
Yeah Keanu was just perfect in his movie. When Common stabs him in the train you see his face get all red and just showed how painful it was.
Magazines, not clips. Clips are tiny metal strips that hold a row of bullet's together, magazines are box-like containers that use a spring to push bullets into the chamber of a full and or semi automatic firearm. Nearly all modern guns use magazines instead of clips nowadays.
soldiers would just say it as clips. magazines are too long to say.
some would speak it as magz.
Robert Carey this is probably a stupid question, but could an example of clips be when you reload your sniper in BF1?
+green house You just says "mags" for short. There's never an excuse for a soldier to incorrectly says "clips" when it's not actually a clip. You don't even save any time compared to saying the correct "mags." You can't even use that as an excuse since mags and clips are just the same amount of time and syllables to say, lol. You might as well use the right one if you're not ignorant deep down.
30 caliber magazine clip?
Best movie of 2017, thus far.
Sena Kashiwazaki Best action film of all time
Andrew T. Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Fuck off
+Andrew T. Hell Yeah.
Yeah, it's so awesome.
And I loved the first movie.
Sena Kashiwazaki fuck yes
Joe is too controlling of these reviews he keeps telling other Joe when he is right or wrong it's annoying your not right about everything. Like with John and Cassian being friends. They were friends until John killed his ward
Dillon Heckenliable they didn't seem like friends necessarily to me. just a colleague.
I would disagree with you of Cassian being friends. Unlike in the first movie where the character of William Dafoe had John Wicks back. They were friends, because even near the end after rejecting the contract, he would not give up Wick, which costed him his life. Like what Joe said referring to Cassian, they just had a mutual respect for each other. You could be right also. I just didn't really see much friendship besides knowing each other's drinks.
Dillon Heckenliable joe reminds me of joe rogan a bit with that
Nice first name
by knowing each other favorite drinks, means they're friends. if not why the hell script bring up this scene?
I'm pretty sure even those pigeons at the end were assassins.
can't trust the pigeons bro
I agree
*sees old guy smoking Cuban cigar*
Me: He's the bad guy
*answers old telephone*
Me : Defiantly bad guy
The moment I saw the original trailer for this movie I groaned at the presence of another dog, I thought it was a foregone conclusion that it was going to die. Really pleased that they didn't kill the dog.
Why? It's the same dog that he ended off the first film with.
Chapter 3 might take place an hour after 2 (which was two weeks after JW). Aurelio shows up with a new car near the beginning of the movie (early chase/fights, dog tears shit up), he jumps in the car and looks in the dash.. it's a fucking pencil, sharpened to perfection. John Wick with a pencil vs the world.
Patrick it's perfect
The world is fucked
That's a fair fight.
Apparently 1 out of every 3 people on earth is a professional assassin.
Erok9 yeah....but like Joe said, John is clearly a level 10 assassin, the others are clearly level 1-3, Cassian maybe level 6-8 and Ruby Rose is a level 4.5 but wishes she was a level 10.
nodinitiative I love that Ruby's character act all badass and shit, when in reality she's really not that strong, she mostly relied on her henchmen. Common put up a better fight than her, they should have make him the end boss fight instead of Ruby.
holyflame2 I think Ruby's assassin skill would be like someone you don't expect to kill you. For John was almosnt killed in a tunnel area by a violinist assassin lol. Plus, the movie could have used her small size to her advantage in a gun fight, its not easy trying to shoot a small and slim person. At least the movie didnt overdid it with her. I'm surprise Joe didnt bring up the only BS of the movie, that "silencer" scene.
Erok9 No that part is explained with common sense, John wick was being followed by them all, each waiting for their chance, staying as close as possible.
I say there needs to be 2 more John Wick movies, the third one is the end to this story and the 4th is a prequel. I want to see how this impossible task went down.
Yes and I wanna know how he fell in love with the women that died.
to be honest, we don't need to see the impossible task, its better off to leave it as a mistery/ambiguos way , because it's going to be hard to top the hype from the stories.
Joe, if that Glock is real, please stop playing with it like a toy.
Excalibur01 everything you see are props so relax
and if it is real it most likely isnt loaded so i dont see any problem
The rule of guns: If its not loaded, its still loaded.
Mip Mup h didn't use a gun prop in his doom review that was real
Rule 2 of guns: If you have checked and double checked and know for sure that it is unloaded, it is still very much loaded
Rule 3: STILL LOADED, DON'T AIM UNLESS YOU WANNA KILL.
Rule 4: Aim only at things you are prepared to shoot, like the ground.
angry Joe should become a movie critic instead of a game critic
General Grievous he is both tho
General Grievous why when he is already both?
Lol nice try
General Grievous so? is both and fun, who cares.
General Grievous I agree but he wouldn't treat your movie very nicely.
The solo shotgun reload was my favorite
well John doesn't really go for headshots immediately. he shoots the body to stun them and then shoots them in the head. this is, what i was seeing throughout the first and second movie.
Who else loves the scene where the russian boss explains again the babayaga thing and the killing three men in a bar with a pencil? At first I was scared like the movie would suck and it would stick too much on the original, but then, the boss's henchman interupts like "yeah i already know that" which was like what i was already thinking, and then the boss was like yeah " who the fuck does that!?"... and it was surprisingly hilarious! 😂
Really loved the movie honestly, This is a day one Blu-ray buy from me. I have to say though I'm not sure most people noticed but I really did like the ending I know it's pretty unrealistic but I think that's not the message they were putting out but the message that this organization in a way is something like Illuminati the only thing being Wick is trying to break from that society. So I think it makes you think on that level but still all around amazing action paying homage to previous action films while still knowing that it's a Wick film. Easily John Wick is the some of the best action films in the last years. Also Keanu is definitely a inspiration.
Zen Razor the ending of the film blew my mind... Winston controls the city and the scene where all the people stop moving and stare at Wick just shows how big the organization is... all the people getting text alerts and John starts running because he has one hour... it gave me chills.
Brandon Yeah same if they do decide to make a 3rd one its going to be epic asf. That ending was epic now John Wick beats everyones ass lol
bf3ram Why DVD first?
+Zen Razor Perhaps he means that Bluray is a dying medium, but IMO I feel that will make them a better addition to collection value wise.
Percival Longbottom Dying? Lmao Blu-Ray is more relevant than DVD.
I see he fired Poor Man's Boogie
LMFAO! And that skinny bearded guy with the bad teeth
I feel bad for laughing because I don't really mind Delrith, but that is comedy gold haha,
Gotta love the internet age.
John Wick killed him.
Story wise & world building, the 2nd one is better but the action scenes in the first were smoother and better. Here on 2, there are a lot of times that people hunting him could've easily killed him. That said, 2 had a much better ending. Both films were really good.
HeyItsMike yeah I noticed too in the second movie he seemed overpowered
Maybe the mark that was given to John at the end of the film is from Common. He did let the guy live.
Joseph Haltom that's exactly what I was thinking too, top level assassin let's you live, you owe them a life/blood debt
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Joseph Haltom the mark is from Winston
Joseph Haltom how is common alive? He said if you pull out the knife you die. He's gonna walk around with a knife in his chest for all eternity?
MrGNugget ever heard of surgery? LMFAO! 😂😂😂😂😂
Rafael Ramirez theres surgeons sitting on trains? A man stabbed through the heart has the energy to run to a hospital? And he said IF YOU PULL THIS OUT YOU DIE. Not a surgeon will save you before you bleed out
They bring back Hugo Weaving (Actor of Agent Smith) as the main villain, that would be sweet.
I'm gonna call it and say the third one is gonna be him destroying the international orders and forming a new order out of the ashes, or dying with the orders.
Ruby Rose kinda died pretty quickly though, i really thought she'd put up a heck of a lot more fight though but 5 seconds into the fight, you kinda like telling yourself "shes really struggling..." 10 seconds in and "oh man, now she really knows she bit off more than she could chew and shes positivelyfucked. But even that, it actually kinda make the movie even more epic somehow even if its not the epic showdown/"last boss" scenario you were expecting.
Thats how well-made the movie is, the scenes are so well though out and they all gel so good...
a deserving 10/10.
One part of me wants the John Wick franchise to stop after the third one so it isn't burnt out , another part of me wants them to continue upon the lore somehow. The creators of John Wick opened up a world with so much potential story , not just with John Wick specifically but the entire John Wick universe. It's going to be hard to close up such an interesting world with just one more two hour movie.
On the one hand it's probably better to leave it unexplained, like a painting relying on negative space. On the other hand I think any spin offs or expansions should still show more of it, but never show everything.
Johns fighting was better this time around too. In the house fight in the beginning of the first movie as soon as he has no gun it takes him longer to take people down and he nearly got destroyed twice by the main bodyguard of reek but this time with ease he is taking people out in hand to hand as well so he felt more rounded. In the first he seemed more deadly with guns but now he seemed deadly with just any situation which felt more like the baba yaga people talk about. I did not get that impression as much in the first one. Also I think the point of mending relationships and calling a peace truce with Vigo's brother in the beginning is the director's way of saying they might be some kind of potential ally in the future for john and a safe haven. Maybe I don't know.
Just think of the first one as him being his first stint right out of retirement. He was rusty. Now, after dealing with all the crap in the first movie, he's a little less rusty and the true Baba Yaga shines through a bit more.
Chapter 3 probably starts off with John rushing to his burned out house to retrieve his weapon stash. From there, it would be a full on war with other assassins.
I think Wick's going to die in the third movie.
Yeah, I get that feeling too. It's like, how do you survive the world going after you? They'd have to kill him off at some point. It'd be poetic in a way. John Wick's only way out of the crime world is death. When he's alive, he will always be known as the boogyman whether he likes it or not.
For sure
I think the 3rd will be pre-quel and the 4th will be the continuation. I would like to see how john wick came to be...
fuk that third shoud be continuaton, 4th prequel
They shouldnt do a fourth one.. i dont even think they should do a third one
How cool would it be if the end of chapter 3 has a kingsman style massacre times like 10 with john wick vs literally every assassin
A few quick points for clarification, and please correct me if I'm wrong:
The marker helped Wick to get out, but wasn't the reason he was allowed out. I took it that it allowed him to leverage more resources or perhaps it kept the Italian mob from encroaching on the Russian mob territories which allowed Wick to establish the Russian mob to a point where he could leave.
The rules of the marker state that you have to honor the marker. if you don't, you're killed. If you kill the holder of the marker, you're killed. and if you don't execute the demand against the marker, then you're killed. This is why Wick shot his mark despite her slitting her wrists and then didn't go after the brother until his marker was cleared by Winston. Winston explained this when Wick first went to meet him to talk about the marker (the "stay" scene).
The only part you're incorrect on is the reason the marker exists. The Marker is simply a blood contract, a favor. John needed the mob boss' help to actually execute his impossible task. Manpower, resources, equipment, etc. In return for the help, he had to promise a favor at a later date. BUT. The boss knew that John was trying to retire, so as long as John was retired, he was holding the marker as inactive and ineligible for him to call in the favor. When John annihilated the Tarasovs, from John's perspective he hadn't actually come out of retirement, since that was an entirely personal matter. The boss had a different view, so he blew up John's house for refusing to stay out of retirement long enough to do his job.
He worked for the Tarasovs before, not as a bodyguard with a ward like how Joe assumes, but as an actual cleaner. He wanted to retire and in return he had to do basically do a job that would give him full control over New York's underworld. He needed to put the favor in with the Marker in order to complete that job and retire.
I thought the other guy who was fighting john wick his name was cassian
Dr. Doctor Cassian is the name of the character. The actor's name is Common.
He actually does cover his head with his bullet-proof jacket several times, though. Also, the bullet-proof lining seems to be something of a token gift from the tailor, him being the only one having it.
I think there will be many lower tier assassins after him. but 3 major Assassins after him non-stop like their skill level is like 11/10 And by the end of the movie i think john might figure out a way to fake his own death. Also i think common might help him out in key moment just out of the fact that he let him live. Just like he let the other underground leader live.
Both movies had great soundtracks. I love the expansion of The Continental story. I just love this BOTH movies.
Although I loved 99% of the film,I felt the decision to kill San'tdAntonio in the Continental hotel was kinda contrevesial.He broke the rules and got outcast.He coulda at least wait until he left the hotel or drag him out by his hair and then kill him outside...
I thought that was the perfect way to raise all stakes even higher because he broke the sacred rule and it was the perfect way to set up for the 3rd movie.
Reaver I'm pretty sure dragging him out the hotel is against the rules lol. That guy probably would have stayed there forever if John Wick didn't kill him. Plus i think it's a great setup for another movie. otherwise, why would he still be working?
The thing is that staying in the Continental would probably make it impossible for him to take his seat at the table. So he'd either have to leave sometime and expose himself, or hide and watch his power fade away.
They showed in the movie that the Continental has a safe passage service, which John uses after the bar scene with Cassian and Ruby's character. I doubt they'd refuse someone as high profile as him to use that same service.
Dragging him out would probably count as violence which isn't allowed.
I can already tell 2017 is gonna be a good year for you joe. You have been pretty consistent with you content lately and I appreciate it!
Cant believe Im saying this but I'm starting to like these movie reviews.
Keanu is really underrated actor. After Dracula people started to treat him in a most shitty way possible, like calling him the worse actor and they're still doing that. Lol, look how pathetic some critics are, they can't admit he gives a great performance in some of his movies. Did they ever watch the movies like Gift, River's Edge, My own private Idaho, Point Break, Speed, Constantine, Scanner Darkly, Street Kings and of course John Wick and it's sequel? I'm not talking about the quality of these flicks, I'm talking about his acting. Yes, he's not Robert De Niro, but give him a good director and he can make a role his own.
John Wick is going to die. There's no way he can have a happy ending with his rep. I think he's going to fight tooth and nail though (and he will). Love this movie.
The great tragedy of John Wick is that cancer robbed him of his happy ending at the beginning of the first film. This is post happy ending.
I think my favorite part was when the man in charge of the Italy continental asked John if he was going to assassinate the pope before he allowed him to stay.
I think the guy fixing his car will help him out until his car is fixed. After that, he's on his own since he also got the contract to kill Wick.
I think the people that knew wick, like john leguizamo will not kill him. I believe he will have people that save him, just like the first...
Hollowpoints & certain other rounds tend to not over penetrate people, so less collateral damage
That aside, I'd love a crossover with the payday gang in movie 3, but only if it was 1 scene. It opens with him running from the assassins, comes across some guys in masks in a van, they give him a ride, then cut to him getting dropped off & giving them back a mask and then we get our movie
movie got better the longer it went. That ending was epic. You can feel the dread and magnitude of what hes up against via facial expression, the extras, and camera. I thought it was for sure better then the first.
i love that continental manager hes perfect for the role.
Pencil scene better than dark knight
Joker kills one guy with it, John kills three.
The opening scene was amazing. Keanu can handle a weapon perfectly. Such a dedicated actor.
3:01 "Winston," eh? Was he, by chance, an armor-wearing gorilla who likes peanut butter?
Storm fuckin hell
What?
Dude the ending actually kind of scared me. Just imagine your walking in the middle of like thousands of assassins after your head
John Wick 2 was better than the original in my opinion.
Can we talk about that audio tho, I mean seriously, those GUNSHOTS.
7:25. the crowd did get shot, we just don't care
The first professional courtesy was him paying for the drinks I thought. Then later on when they fight on the subway, Wick had stuck a knife into him and said the knife is in his aurora, he could either take it out and fight Wick and bleed out and die, or leave it in there and get help. That was his professional courtesy, the same thing he did to Laurence Fishburne's character where he gave him an option to hold the wound on his neck and get help, or let it go and bleed out trying to kill Wick...
John wick hurt his leg? all he needs is some herb and a chemical bag and he carries on.!
The way Johns gun skills could be explained is that he has "Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat" meaning "Fortune Favors The Bold" tattooed on his back, which I believe is the motto of 3rd Battalion Marines.
The Best scene of The movie îs The Last one, like u understand The shit got real
John Wick gets head shots only after he immobilizes his targets. Just review all his kills, he either hits them in the body or legs first and then hits them in the head.
I only like the series because it has Keanu Reeves in it. The man deserves some screen time from all the horrible things that have happened to him. But to be really honest, Reeves can/should get better roles... Action movies are awesome, but I feel the need for innovation. Hollywood has become stale and predictable.
Yep, when you look up Reeves, the first movie seems like if Reeves wrote his biopic as a revenge fantasy.
Wick kills 133 people in that movie. 132 if you discount him putting a bullet in the sisters head only after she slit her wrists. He only killed 77 people in the last movie. Amazing action for an amazing movie.
John Wick Chronicles is pretty tragic. Franchise needs a classy top-down stealth game like Filth Lucre.
Steven G That shitty VR game?
John Wick runs to Orlando and seeks refuge in Disney World's Magic Kingdom. Plot Twist: Chip N' Dale have cell phones and they are level 10 assassins.
John Wick will be the next chuck noris.
@AngryJoeShow did you know the scene the sisters kills her self is how Romans used to kill themselves in the past, with both wrist slit, naked and their body positioned like that in a tub, dont forget where they were when this happened. pretty cool little thing alot of people will miss.
How awsome would be an open world game like GTA with this universe and rules?
you guys was right, movie was soooooooooo good, but i noticed he does the same, thing he flips someone over, break a arm or what not and shoot them in the head, he does this alot in every fight scene.
What did you think of the house of mirror scene?
It was awesome, paying homage to Bruce Lee's Enter the Dragon.
I was just going to say that, it was Bruce Lee's Enter the dragon! it was a awesome mirror scene!
Domingo J wow I feel dumb I didn't realize it was tribute. I was thinking it has been so over done everywhere but that makes so much more sense now.
Domingo J the music in that scene was freaky dude
Alberto Mercado It's cool, its little details like that, that makes the movie even better.
Missile launcher? That's clearly a grenade launcher...
The way to explain why he doesn't get shot in head is because people are trained to shoot centermass, it's most likely to hit and most likely to kill(head is hard to hit even if stationary, especially with pistols).
Can you not swing your glock around. Ty
Metric Moto same thing my teacher said
I think that the marker he was given will somehow be instrumental in lifting his excommunication while teaming up with another assassin to finally retire.
people who spot plot holes are haters?
Where is the beard guy? You cant talk about movies without beardman stroking his beard
A. FUCKING. PENCIL.
Theory for John Wick 3's plot: As an underworld outlaw (as in the original definition of "The protections of the law no longer apply to this person"), John Wick will be a major chess piece in the implied upcoming war between The Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne) and the High Table (the council of crime lords in charge of this underworld) with Winston and the Continental playing a key part.
Not only does it add an extra layer of intrigue with John not knowing who he can trust and where the next threat or assistance will come from, John Wick's skills will be put to use furthering the plots/story of one or both sides of this underworld war.
Disliking because dude on the left said "clips."
For the question of the Continental Hotels and their owners and how they pertain to the Assassin's Council, I think they're treated more like sovereign kingdoms within that world. Each Continental Hotel proprietor, be it Winston or Julius, run their Hotels adhering to certain principles, but as a separate entity within the assassin world, they don't answer to the council directly.
Dude on the left, your beard looks absolutely terrible
Tim Remington lol who cares
Dude on the left his name is Jacob. He has not been in an Angry Joe video since early 2013
Tim Remington looks fine to me
The scene where John buys his guns was NOT gun porn. It was gun romance.
One scene that bothered me is when John and Cassian, I think it was, were shooting eachother in a subway, and everyone else was absolutely blind and deaf. Come on, yeah they used supressors, but that doesnt make the guns silent, or the bullets hitting the walls.
Other than that, yes I enjoyed the hell out of the movie. Movies like Rambo defined action of the 80s, John Wick defines action of the 2010s.
Dr. Deltality I'll give a simple explanation. it's John wicks world. the police know about the assassin's. the citizens also know about them. reason they aren't bothered by it is because they know the assassin's have a code of honor and respect. they will try not to get innocent people involve. normal people have nothing to worry about since assassin's have a specific target.
You missed the subtext that weapons scene slightly. That man was referred to as a "sommelier", which means a wine master. So when he asked for a firearm to PAIR with dinner and desert and such, the back and forth discussion sounded like talk about wine, while discussing handguns, assault rifles, shotguns, and combat knives. Amusing bit of cultural injection into a scene about gearing up to kill people, especially paired with the suit fitting scenes it was interspersed with.
The Continental is a self governing body. A league of assassins so to speak or a workers union with rules. The crime syndicates use the services provided by The Continental. The heads of the criminal organizations who have exclusive membership are given a unique identifier number to use whenever they call for a hit. Once issued and accepted, the conditions are binding. Upon successful completion of the contract, the issuer must abide by the contract and pay the assassin the stipulated amount. In addition, blood markers are used if the assassin approaches a neutral crime organization for aid (eg. Information needed to make the hit on another organization), and the crime lord deems that it is a debt that must be repaid. The Continental records and actively keeps track of such debts, but remains completely neutral in such matters.
just finished the movie that ending was so emotional him running it hit me in the heart alone with just his pet one man running from the world.....
I bet the black guy at the Hotel (the one with the cool voice who watched his dog) is some John Wick level assassin too. He successfully retired though. It would explain all of the obvious respect. It'd be cool to find out that his nickname was "The Reaper" or something like that. Possibly, just possibly, his nickname was also "The Boogey man" and John was tasked with taking him down. The impossible task? Notice, in the first movie, he was described as "No, not really the boogey man. He's the one you send to /kill/ the boogey man.".
BUT THAT'S JUST A THEORY.
A FILM THEORY.
Funny that you say the reaper, since his name is actually Charon. The boatman of the River Styx, who the Grim Reaper is based on.
15:28 I think the Laurence Fishburne character is a foreshadowing of where Common's character will end up
I think the third film s going to focus on "old friends" (such as Aurelio) trying to cover him (despite the rules), but what I would love is to have a villain in the same level of John Wick, make him have his own sequence against Fishburne's men, that would be awesome.
The black dude plays a character from the wire which is awesome and I was so hyped because he's awesome. Also played one of bad guys in Quantum break that I just played so seeing him straight away in John wick is like ahh nice to see you gettting work brother.