A Marker is a blood oath made by one killer to another, promising that in exchange for a favor at present, the holder of the Marker can call in repayment on that favor at any time, without question, under threat of death and/or “excommunicado” from the assassins’ order.
That is, of course, until Wick has a favor called in by way of a Marker, a sacred oath of the High Table (the council governing all assassins around the world).
John Wick: Chapter 2 picks up where that film left off, with the legendary assassin John Wick ( Keanu Reeves) settling into his newly re-earned retirement after taking out the entire Russian mob in New York City. For a film as brutally violent as it is, and with such a campy premise on its face (man is left dog by dying wife, dog is killed by Russian gang members, man exacts bloody vengeance for 90-odd minutes), the first Wick felt like an old-style actioner in the best possible ways: the choreography was breathless, the violence hard-hitting in a way that’s largely been replaced by bloodless piles of bodies in the post-9/11 era, and the leading man carried himself with the kind of onscreen presence that so many glowering Bourne clones have tried and failed to match in recent years.
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The beauty of 2014’s John Wick, and a likely driver of the cult following it’s grown in the time since its release, is how effortlessly it revived the visual intelligence and sly humor of the ‘90s star-centric action vehicle.