History Awesome / JohnWickChapter2

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--> '''Winston:''' You stabbed the Devil in the back... You incinerated the priests' temple... Now he's free of the Marker... What do you think he'll do?

* John and Cassian's second fight in the train station has a truly memorable scene about halfway through. Making liberal use of HollywoodSilencer, the two blend into the crowds and shoot at eachother from different levels, without any of the civilians all around them noticing. Definitely ''not'' your average shootout.

* Winston making it ''very'' clear in the end scene that being the Manager of one of the Continentals gives one far more power than is ever really let on; even John himself gets properly unnerved by it.

** The icing on the cake is Winston apparently fully believing that John is capable of killing anyone who comes after him. [[Spoiler: When the third film rolls around, we see that John was not, in any way, exaggerating.]]

** The icing on the cake is Winston apparently fully believing that John is capable of killing anyone who comes after him.

* John continues his tradition of doling out [[BoomHeadshot headshots]] like candy. This is best seen in the opening of the Museum shootout, with John taking down seven guards with headshots in roughly a second.

** A meta example: Creator/KeanuReeves put himself through intensive firearms and close-quarters combat training in order to top his stunt performance from the first film. During the lead-up to the film's release, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpr8oqyjKIc this footage]] was released of him running through a Taran Tactical 3-gun course using live ammunition, displaying Wick-like speed and efficiency.
* On a meta level, Keanu Reeves and the film's crew managed to not only top the action of the first film, but also expand the lore and universe of the movies, once again making it more than just a brainless action flick.
** The movie also has the balls to open with skits from Creator/BusterKeaton (the grandfather and gold standard of film stuntwork), as if to say to other action movies "We are the true successors to this lineage. Let us show you how this shit is ''done''." And then goes on to prove their claim.

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[[caption-width-right:301:[[CallBack “With a fuckin’ ]] [[ImprobableWeaponUser pencil”]]]]

* After Santino's betrayal of John after his sister's death]], Winston comes to collect the finished marker and warn Santino about what he's done.

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[[caption-width-right:301:”[[With a fuckin’ CallBack]] [[pencil ImprobableWeaponUser]]”]]

[[caption-width-right:301:”With a fuckin’ pencil”]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Just another day for the Baba Yaga.]]

* The conclusion of John's second fight with Cassian is particularly impressive. Cassian has an impressive showing, for sure. But John still manages to win handily with a [[CherryTapping non-lethal KO]] in a ''knife-fight'', managing to show he's not a BoringInvincibleHero, but still making his skills damn impressive.

* The sheer degree of GunPorn on display when John is selecting his weapons early in the film. Weapons are given the respect and reverence of fine wines. Its not even GunPorn, its more like Gun Romance.

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** A meta example: Keanu Reeves put himself through intensive firearms and close-quarters combat training in order to top his stunt performance from the first film. During the lead-up to the film's release, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpr8oqyjKIc this footage]] was released of him running through a Taran Tactical 3-gun course using live ammunition, displaying Wick-like speed and efficiency.

* Winston making it ''very'' clear [[spoiler: in the end scene]] that being the Manager of one of the Continentals gives one far more power than is ever really let on; even [[spoiler: John himself get properly unnerved by it.]]

** On the subject of the [[spoiler: ending, a lot of respect has to be given to John. Rather than calmly accepting his fate in light of this impossible odd, John instead tells Winston that he'll kill anyone who comes after him. He's basically declaring war on ''the entire criminal underworld'' all by himself. Remember, the man is clearly exhausted and broken after all the crap he's been through throughout two movies, and yet he's still willing to fight on for his life even if it is, in Winston's words, already forfeit.]]
** The icing on the cake is [[spoiler: Winston apparently fully believing that John is capable of killing anyone who comes after him.]]
* After Santino's [[spoiler: betrayal of John after his sister's death]], Winston comes to collect the finished marker and warn Santino about what he's done.

* The sheer talent of John's weapon handling throughout the film, such as doing a brass-check on his Kimber with a single-hand during a beat in a firefight, or his finesse in reloading the Benelli. The film goes out of its way to avert many notorious action thriller tropes like BottomlessMagazines and looks awesome doing so.

* A subdued one but Santino's one job that only Wick is qualified enough for it is shown to be ''trivial'' for John. He reaches and kill his target before anyone noticed him and only had to fight his way out during the extraction (and most of the troubles came from being betrayed not even the assignment itself).
** Keep in mind if not for being spotted by Cassian John never would have had to shoot his way out of that concert. And in turn John probably would have been able to get through the catacombs fast enough to avoid Ares and her strike team. Then if John could have avoided that strike team in the catacombs he would have gotten to the Continental Hotel in time to avoid being ambushed by Cassian. Basically John's skills as an assassin are so great that it took one of the best body guards in the criminal underworld remembering his face, AND being betrayed by Santino just to mildly road block him.

* John and Cadsian's second fight in the train station has a truly memorable scene about halfway through. Making liberal use of HollywoodSilencer, the two blend into the crowds and shoot at eachother from different levels, without any of the civilians all around them noticing. Definitely ''not'' your average shootout.

** As he speaks, the camera pans up and reveals a statue of a multi-armed deity behind Winston. Who is it? The Hindu god Shiva. Shiva ''"The Destroyer"''.

** The movie also has the balls to open with skits from Creator/BusterKeaton (the grandfather and gold standard of film stuntwork, as if to say to other action movies "''We'' are the true successors to this lineage. Let us show you how this shit is ''done''." And then goes on to prove their claim.

** The movie also has the balls to open with skits from Creator/BusterKeaton, as if to say to other action movies "This is how stuntwork is ''done''." And then goes on to prove their claim.