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John Wick (2014)
Comedy/Parody in the vain of Scary Movie, Meet the Spartans, etc
TV labeled this as "suspense", so I thought this would be serious action movie like Die Hard, or an "over-the-top" Seagal movie from 90's where the good guy wipes the floor with everyone. Even Arnold's movies had good plots (Total Recall), made sense (Terminator), or were lighthearted swashbuckling action, like True Lies. Instead this was a comedy scene after scene, I couldn't believe it, I thought may be it's supposed to be a parody of the 80's and 90's movies:
1. It starts out nice, but then, he drives around the airport like it's supposed to be a challenge driving fast in wide-open spaces.
2. He got no alarm or any safety on his house, and gets ambushed like a complete amateur by guys wearing hard soled shoes. His excuse was that he was rusty, but only a day later, he is not rusty any more, but, without any practice he kills 12 people, which brings me to:
3. This rusty guy has an aim-bot in his brain and hand, and kills everyone with head-shot despite incredible speeds at which action must be moving when a dozen people attack you at the same time.
4. Everyone in New York knows him, everyone is afraid of him, even cops, people at "hotel", garage owners, and Russian mafia, but only the son doesn't know him. In the end, I was expecting the mafia guy to contact corrupt army general, who sends drones to attack, but when the radar recognizes John Wick, the computer sets and locks the autopilot to fly back home.
5. When he attacks the son, and the Vigo, his aim goes bad due to signal jamming.
6. This war machine foolishly leaves curtains open so any two-bit sniper can take him out from 100 meters....
7. He lets the woman sneak up to him (again while sleeping) without, again, setting some kind of personal alarm
8. Bad guys shoot him 3 times in the club, instead of unloading 20-30 bullets in the guy that just killed half the club. He shrugs 3 shots easily. Carries no armor.
9. He is in wide open space, only 2 guys manage to hit him, when someone is about to shoot from behind, he "feels" the aim and turns and instantly shoots the bad guy.
10. He does all this for a dog, but before the film is over, and the bones haven't even decomposed, he find another dog like he has already forgotten about the old one....that's how much he loved him.
This is only what I can remember right now, I'm sure there is more. This movie, full of fantasy scenes, strange motivations, inconsistent characters, and old plots (vigo and his bad son ), strange assassin operation (I bet they tried to get Morgan Freeman to play the black guy at the reception desk), etc, doesn't deserve anything but criticism, or these idiots will continue to put out movies like this. I gave it 2/10, official 7 rating is hilarious, obviously fixed with fake accounts and what not. I don't know why Reeves accepted this job, the second movie that is coming out will tank badly.
Shot Through the Heart (1998)
accurate
I was in Sarajevo at the time (7 years old) and the movie is pretty accurate.
Uniforms and bad accents don't matter, its a good story, especially the trench type of warfare that was fought. A bit different from the blitzkrieg style campaigns that we see now days over the TV in Iraq and Afghanistan.
There are a lot of small details that make it very realistic, like the wood for burning during the winter stockpiled in the appartments, the way people die, living conditions in general, no water, no electricity, barelly enough food, etc
Somethimes that period of my life seems like it was only a dream...