John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) - Catacombs Shootout Scene (4/10) | Movieclips

Gaz: remember, switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading

Tactical reload. Competition reload. Emergency reload.

"Stealth is optional for this mission."

Having extra weapons stashed along your escape route is one of the smartest decisions in any action movie. This is why John Wick is so beloved.

when you have played the same mission over 200 times

Which idiot hires the world's most dangerous assassin, and then betrays him...

This scene is a testament to why action movies need to focus on reloads more. They add so much to this scene, being super consistent with the ammo count.

2:24 Man, I never get tired of this moment. He's mid-reload, the smoothness and quickness he switches to his pistol, along with the matching camera movement, is just so slick and satisfying. I love it.

Legends say hey killed 14 people with one bullet....then he loaded it and shot.

this is actually the first action movie I've ever seen were the main character actually gets shot a couple times instead of miraculously dodging every single bullet

John is unlike most people. He uses a secondary weapon as a primary, but he uses a primary weapon as a secondary.

Its interesting seeing him switch from the AR to the Benelli. The first few kills, he fires 3-4 shots at every baddy even though with 12 gauge buck shot he really only needs one round. Probably because he's been used to double and triple tapping everyone he's been shooting at so far with the Glock and AR so his muscle memory is still following that, then after 2:48 or so it clicks that he's using his Benelli and he uses exclusively 1 or 2 shots per target for the rest of the fight. Very cool attention to detail.

As a guy in the military, we all watched this movie for his gun drills and transitions. And it was cool watching

Like how he pins the guy with the gun, then reloads then shoot

One of the things that makes this sequence so beautiful is the continuity throughout the scene. There are very few cuts and when they do cut, it's only to focus on a particular action. When it cuts back out, there's no jarring change of angle, you take up where you left off and continue the sequence. At no point do you get confused about where he is and how he got there. The lighting is consistent throughout the shot so when you look up the passage where the lighting is more blue after he's gone into an area where the lighting is more yellow, you still see the blueish light. It's never boring watching John Wick action sequences. The cinematography in these movies is true art

I love the subtle detail in this scene that the longer the fight goes, he gets more and more tired from rolling around, grapling guys and reloading, aswell as stunned from the continuous gunfire that must be deafening inside the catacombs, his reaction time becomes slower towards the end.

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I don’t think there’s anything more satisfying then watching this man reload

I love how shes so focused on killing john she accidentally shoots one of hers to try hit john.

2:18 "Remember, switching to your pistol is always faster than reloading"