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I like how Charon, the hotel concierge, is just like Charon of mythology, who carries souls from the world of the living into the underworld after accepting a coin. Then of course at the end of this movie, he appears again, dressed in black, to transport Wick to Winston, where he will be excommunicated, a fate that may as well be death in this universe.
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I was happy that the movie had a mute assassin because it meant that we got more of those cool stylized subtitles. Those are one of my favorite little touches to these movies.
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AlternateAccount posted:I enjoyed this but it definitely suffered from the "mooks don't exist until they come into frame" problem. No one just takes a shot at decent range. The first one used the layout of the nightclub to accomplish this, etc, but this just pretends their AI doesn't kick on til they're on camera. Yeah, I was a little disappointed by how loose the action was compared to the first movie. There were just a few too many moments where Wick really should have been shot. He was out in the open often enough for the mooks to have a chance to do so, and then they just...wouldn't. They would just wait too long for their turn to get shot, or they would just run at him and get judo tossed and/or shot. The action in 2 was still far better than just about any other movie out there, but nothing matched the nightclub scene in 1. It's pretty much perfect.
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Feb 26, 2017 10:15
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Mr Shiny Pants posted:This is what I also thought, so the mob after him already makes it hard enough, why also get yourself kicked out of that club? Wick knew that he would probably be killed for breaking Continental rules, and just didn't care at that point. He was committed to retiring, but Santino was never going to let Wick live, and on top of that, was taunting him by sitting right in front of him at the Continental and showing that he could just wait Wick out. If there's no way out of the situation, why not take out Santino when he's sitting right in front of John and being an rear end in a top hat?
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Mar 6, 2017 11:11
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DrunkPanda posted:I liked this movie a lot more than the first one, but one thing that annoyed me was how John Wick's reputation seemed to change from one minute to the next. The difference between a sanctioned fight against Fedor and trying to assassinate someone is that any punk with a gun potentially COULD take out John Wick. As badass as he is, when he's engaging in gunfights with other people, he's still a human being and he drat well could have died at any moment. Of course he's the main character, so that's not going to happen, but in this movie's universe I can buy that there's plenty of assassins who would want to take him out. Anyone with a gun has a chance, however small. Whoever managed to kill Wick would gain so much fame, power and respect in the underworld.
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That being said, I wish there had been just one or two moments where someone chose not to get into a fight with Wick. I always grin a bit at that scene in JW1 where Francis the doorman takes the night off and allows Wick into the Red Circle without a fuss. Smartest man in the movie.
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