A worthy escalation of its predecessor’s sleek charm, John Wick: Chapter 2 is the finest action film since Mad Max: Fury Road.
The film remarkably balances its predecessor’s spartan characterizations and plotting with an expansion of scale.
The film Vallée has created out of Strayed’s beloved 2012 memoir never quite matches the blunt audacity of its simple title.
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