Having been blessed with Mad Max: Fury Road last year, we certainly can’t expect another action film on that level in 2016 — but even when putting aside George Miller’s film, this year’s genre entries left much to be desired. With perhaps only Johnnie To’s little-seen Three delivering truly excellent directorial vision — and when it comes to sheer visceral action spectacle, Hacksaw Ridge — in between lackluster, plasticky superhero showdowns, we’re hoping 2017 brings something more impressive.
Thankfully we won’t have to wait too long for a film with great potential. John Wick: Chapter Two, which reunites director Chad Stahelski (co-helmer David Leitch only returns as a producer), scribe Derek Kolstad, and, of course, Keanu Reeves, is arriving in February, and today a new trailer has been unleashed. It reveals a bigger scope and more vibrant cinematography than its predecessor, and we absolutely can’t wait to see this one.
Check it out below (along with a poster, via Collider) for the film also starring Laurence Fishburne, Common, Ian McShane, and Peter Stormare:
In this next chapter following the 2014 hit, legendary hitman John Wick [Keanu Reeves] is forced back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world’s deadliest killers.
John Wick: Chapter Two opens on February 10.