In an age of comic book movies and seemingly endless reboots, along comes "John Wick": an original film with an aging Keanu Reeves as a retired super-assassin brought back into a world he tried to leave for the best of action film reasons... REVENGE.
What sets this film apart are the incredible fight scenes that are wide-shot, uninterrupted gun play extraordinaire... there's nothing else in Hollywood that comes close to this kind of combat choreography. This is close-range, brutally effective, 'tier one operator'-level stuff. You can tell Reeves dedicated himself to this role with vigor and the results are spectacular.
The story is lean and slightly cliche as are the one-note Russian villains, but when the gun play and stunts are is this good, who cares. I could never buy Keanu Reeves in the role of a bad ass (the Matrix) but his his performance in John Wick is very satisfying and really sells the idea that this guy could kill everyone in the room with a pencil if need be.
If you love action, do yourself a favor and watch this film. Thank me later.
What sets this film apart are the incredible fight scenes that are wide-shot, uninterrupted gun play extraordinaire... there's nothing else in Hollywood that comes close to this kind of combat choreography. This is close-range, brutally effective, 'tier one operator'-level stuff. You can tell Reeves dedicated himself to this role with vigor and the results are spectacular.
The story is lean and slightly cliche as are the one-note Russian villains, but when the gun play and stunts are is this good, who cares. I could never buy Keanu Reeves in the role of a bad ass (the Matrix) but his his performance in John Wick is very satisfying and really sells the idea that this guy could kill everyone in the room with a pencil if need be.
If you love action, do yourself a favor and watch this film. Thank me later.