A hitman on whose head a bounty is placed
Following the 2014 film ‘John Wick’, latest ‘John Wick 2nd Chapter’ a story abouthitman John Wick, who goes on the run after a bounty is placed on his head, is now being screened at Majestic Cineplex, Empire Arcade and other centres around Colombo.
Starring Keanu Reeves as John Wick, the film features Laurence Fishburne, Riccardo Scamarcio, Ruby Rose, John Leguizamo and Ian McShane film is directed by Chad Stahelski and written by Derek Kolstad.
The movie opens with John Wick, former hitman John Wick (Keanu Reeves) finding that his stolen Mustang at a chop shop owned by Abram Tarasov (Peter Stormare), brother of Viggo and uncle of Iosef from the first film. After dispatching Abram’s men, John spares him under the auspices of “peace” and returns home with his now-heavily damaged car.
Later, John is visited by Italian crime lord Santino D’Antonio (Riccardo Scamarcio), who has come to enlist John to assassinate his sister Gianna (Claudia Gerini) so he can take her seat on the “High Table,” a council of high-level crime lords. John is obligated to accept after returning from retirement because D’Antonio holds a “marker,” signifying a blood oath John took for help in his “impossible task” to leave the criminal world and marry his late wife Helen. After John refuses, D’Antonio destroys his home with a grenade launcher. Winston (Ian McShane), the owner of the Continental hotel in New York City, warns John that if he refuses to accept the marker, his life will be forfeited. John reluctantly accepts the mission.
