John Wick Chapter 2, you can't be back without consequences...

So I wanted to watch all the John Wick stuff before I saw Ballerina, but like, time happened in between, so... I technically only reached halfway through John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum, right up to the point where John goes to the Ruska Roma and the

Director is watching a ballerina do a ballet.

So... you know, the ballerina part of ballerina made sense to me... especially when we saw the "all this for what? A puppy?" line from a different angle.

But that is for later, this movie takes the premise of the first movie and continues it into John going after a facility run by Abram Tarasov to get back his car, which was the only thing that still remained stolen at the end of the previous movie.

After getting the car back and making arrangements to get the damage done to it fixed, John Believes it all to be over, except, he had asked a now aspiring crime boss a favor previously in order to save his now dead wife Helen.

This Crime boss is from the Camorra Family and is named Santino D'Antonio, he has John's marker and that marks John as bound by a Blood oath.

John tries to refuse, but that only leads to an escalation where his house is blown up by Santino.

And now while John's dog is still alive, this... housewarming gift, pisses him off enough to go see the manager of the continental, who tells him that rules are rules, and that a marker binds him to Santino until he completes a request.

The request being, the murder of his own sister, so he can have her seat and rule all of New York.

Having no other choice John decides to go after Gianna D'Antonio and get his marker removed.

Gianna and John were old friends once, and John acknowledges that Gianna is better than Santino, but he has no choice, so Gianna ends her own life, wanting to go out on her own terms than give herself up.

This sets of Cassian another one affiliated with the Continental after John as Gianna was his ward.

The only reason either of them survives is because their battle carries them to continental grounds, and no business shall be conducted on continental grounds.

So they have a drink instead...

This is by far one of the best scenes ever written and no one can argue against me, I mean where else will you have two trained assassins who respect each other and understand each other actions, still can't help hating each other but are forced to have a drink and a conversation about it instead...

Nowhere, nowhere is the answer.

This movie introduced something in this franchise that went on to continue for every other remaining film in this franchise all the way up to 4, John wick is being hunted by every member of the continental....

In this chapter it is because Santino decided to double cross him in order to "avenge" his sister's death.

Not understanding that in doing so he had written his own death warrant...

Checking out of the continental and having every single assassin that once would have helped him chasing after him, we get a stage for the most amazing kills ever seen in this franchise.

In this situation he goes over to the one person who can help him... Morpheus from the matrix...

No seriously, there is this beggar that John talks to and he has mysterious secret bodyguards that take away the bodies that he killed with the gun he had concealed and then he takes an almost unconscious John to Lawrence Fishburne, who plays the Bowery King, the prime messenger tied to the continental who uses pigeons to send messages.

It is from here that he gets a gun that he will then use to kill Santino.

The relationship between Bowery King and John is much different from the one between Morpheus and Neo, The King and John had previously met, and John had let him live, just like he let Cassian live, with a wound in a place that would have made him die had he tried to attack John.

Yet the King helps him, and John decides to kill Santino, even though he was on continental grounds.

This leads to John getting one hour to escape due to his history with Winston before being declared Excomunicado, meaning there is a large bounty on his head and all Continental services are forfeit from him.

I told you he will always be hunted now the poor bastard...

This is also exactly what happened to Perkins after she chose to attack John on continental grounds while he was in one of the hotels, although in that case she did not get much chance on survival, thankfully John did, so we can have at least two other movies now... Great.