15 Best Movie Deaths Of 2017
10. John Wick: Chapter 2 – Death By Pencil
Back in the first John Wick film Russian gangster Viggo
Tarasov (played by the late, great Michael Nyqvist) teased us with an anecdote
in which the titular hitman took out three men using only a pencil. In Chapter
2 we actually got to see John Wick’s deadly pencil skills in action.
In a blistering sequence that sees John come up against assassin after assassin all hellbent on claiming the bounty on his head – including a sharpshooter disguised as a street violinist and a rather formidable opponent in the shape of a sumo wrestler hitman – he takes on a couple of dudes armed only with a couple of trusty HBs, dispatching one guy with a pencil to the neck while the other gets an impromptu pencil lobotomy.
Apparently, we owe this scene to star Keanu Reeves who pushed to have the brutal but funny kill in the sequel after the mention of John’s unique penmanship skills in the first film. For that, Keanu, we salute you.