One Q: is it opening in other countries before it opens in the U.S. on the 10th?

this release policy is definitely aggravating.

it premieres here on the 17th, but I hope there'll be previews on the 15th and 16th...

it's delicious. it's insane. in spite of its humor, it's darker than the first one. and yeah, at least fifty blades sharper...

I love where it's going. I also hope they stop after the third.

http://www.slashfilm.com/john-wick-chapter-2-analysis/

Luckily he keeps making them indie movies, even if most articles fail to mention them.

And that article is still a great analysis of both movies, horsepoop aside.

In today's show business? if the success of this franchise enables KR to tell more stories he wants to tell, and we'll get to see them on screens (theater, computer, tv, phone screen, whatever ), I can live with such articles. Even if I mutter under my breath when reading them.

The film's director, Chad Stahelski, originally hooked up with Reeves while working as a stuntman on The Matrix. He explains: "When we first talked to Keanu about doing a second (John Wick), he said 'I don't know what else is going to happen but they've got to take my house away, take everything away, by the end of the movie, I'm going to have nothing'. And that was the first basic concept we had - in the first film, John was a force of nature going after people, and in this one, he's fighting them off."

Reeves nods in agreement. "I thought what was cool about the first one," he says, "was it started in such a quiet place, you know, where his wife was passing away and the first thing you learn about him is his grief and the depth of his feeling, and his aloneness. And so for me that was the integrity of the guy, and that's why I liked him. I really responded to his suffering, and the fact that he just wants to retire - he just wants to be left alone."

[...]

As ever, his enemies come off worst, but Reeves insists his killer has a soul. "There's this lovely moment where John Wick is in the bank, and he's remembering his wife and he's about to be forced to kill again and he's alone and he screams. That's just a weird moment, it's private, it's who he really is. So I love that private/public aspect of the character, and the duality that there's John the grieving husband, and John the assassin."

(that's one of my favorite scenes in the movie...)