John Wick: Chapter Two: reviews

What the critics say

• Roger EbertAngelica Jade Bastien A more audacious film, bolder and more violent than its precessor. It's also surprsingly hilarious, wringing humor from physical pratfalls and dry wit in unexpected moments. Read
• TimeStephanie Zacharek 'John Wick: Chapter 2' has style to burn, and oh! what violence -terrible, bone-crunching, glorious violence, beautifully orchestrated by director Chad Stahelski. Read
• Los Angeles TimesJustin Chang Like 'John Wick', 'The Matrix' straddled two different worlds and cast Reeves as a fighter trying to leave one of them behind. It also told a perfectly self-contained story that was forced, by the usual Hollywood commercial imperatives, to spawn two commercially successful but critically derided sequels. Read
• Rolling StonePeter Travers Remember how the original 'John Wick' snuck up and wowed us in 2014? Now he's back and better than ever. Read
• Chicago Sun-TimesRichard Roeper Just when we thought Keanu Reeves was destined for a career of mostly forgettable films piling up in our straight-to-video cues, the guy is headlining a bona fide, first-class action franchise. Read
• Entertainment WeeklyChris Nashawaty The idea of a secret world of professional killers adhering to a set of civilized conventions may sound absurd, but it's what makes the Wickverse more intriguing and far richer than the usual numbskull orgy of cinematic nihilism. Read