Who Won the Movie?
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- Who won the movie cannot really be run because it is obviously Keanu, so the wrinkle is who won the movie that was not Keanu.
- Common is the non-Keanu winner: a big look and a big win, because he made Cassian seem like a cool, important character to the series, an iconic foe almost up to John's standards even though nothing is learned about him.
- An unexpected consequence: the speaker's father saw Common introduced as a rapper, maybe at a basketball game, and asked whether his son knew Common was a rapper. — Bill Simmons
- The father needs a copy of Like Water for Chocolate and The Sixth Sense produced by DJ Premier, having thought Common was a movie assassin or an AI spokesman; his Sonos played Coldplay for three years, and a 300-song 1998-2005 rap playlist would leave him super confused.
- Whether Cassian is dead is uncertain since he was never seen dying, so he could return in John Wick 3 or appear in the Starz show as a flashback set a couple of years before Chapter 2, rolling around the Continental.
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- Keanu Reeves