Near the end of “John Wick’s” blood-splattered second act, a Russian reprobate futilely pleads for mercy from the titular assassin played by Keanu Reeves. “It was just a fuck’n …” he spits out in subtitles, his defense cut off midsentence by the full-stop punctuation of a bullet. The message is clear: Neither “John Wick” nor John Wick has much time for the extraneous.
John Wick
John Wick
John Wick
Near the end of “John Wick’s” blood-splattered second act, a Russian reprobate futilely pleads for mercy from the titular assassin played by Keanu Reeves. “It was just a fuck’n …” he spits out in subtitles, his defense cut off midsentence by the full-stop punctuation of a bullet. The message is clear: Neither “John Wick” nor John Wick has much time for the extraneous.