Lightly dipping his toes into the crime world he left behind has garnered some unintended attention, particularly a blood-oath promise made to D'Antonio called a Marker. We just want to arrive at the point of this follow-up, which director Chad Stahelski and writer Derek Kolstad are more than happy to provide when Italian crime boss Santino D'Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio) appears at John's house. It's an amusing pause for summarizing everything that preceded it, but anyone coming into this sequel already knows this and the infamous tale of the pencil killing, allowing said henchman to interrupt like some kind of audience surrogate. The whole sequence, full of ear-piercing, crunching metal mixed with the dull thumps of fists, unfolds with knowing intentions, as Tarasov puffs on his cigar while dramatically narrating the legend of John Wick to his tattooed henchman. This time, he is in pursuit of his cherished '69 Ford Mustang, kept at a chop shop owned by Abram Tarasov (Peter Stormare), Viggo's brother and Iosef's uncle. Our titular antihero John Wick (Keanu Reeves) even appears on screen, coming out the shadows like a ghostly nightmare, with a far more focused determination as he once again leaves a trail of chaos and death. These are the repercussions of the preceding mayhem. Staying true to the title's connotation, John Wick: Chapter 2 picks up soon after the events of the first movie.
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