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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  John Wick (2014)
Keanu Reeves was sliding slowly away following the release of final Matrix film Revolutions and into that netherworld of obscurity his career always ended up until some shit hot action film (Point Break, Speed, The Matrix) brought him kicking and screaming back into the public's conscious, and then in 2014 suddenly he's back tearing up the screen in a masterclass of bullet strewn violence once more.
For some reason i'd got it into my head that i didn't rate John Wick and due to this have deliberately avoided the sequels and never bothered to even rewatch this until last night. Eleven f*cking years!
There's not much in the way of plot - Some Russians he used to work for kill his dog, so Wick kills them, and that's it basically, yet somehow it works where the plot heavy Man from U.N.C.L.E., from the same time, for example, didn't.
The film is an assault on the senses from start to finish. Turn up the volume and let the sub woofer throw you from your couch as the bullets scream, cars roar, neon lights tear at your eyeballs and Marilyn Manson's excellent Killing Strangers brutally pounds your eardrums to mush. John Wick isn't a film for sensitive souls, nor for next door neighbours.
And those neighbours are really going to be woken up as i have three new John Wick movies i need to get hold of quick sharp. |
Oh you're in for some entertainment there Dem. Like you I'd watched the first one only the once a number of years ago and didn't think it was anything special. A rewatch last year changed my mind even though my biggest niggle is still there. The sequels and the expanding world mythology are fantastic though, there's no pretense or deep plotting but they still feel more engaging than any number of so called thinking man's action films. The spin-off origin series The Continental is also excellent and I'm really looking forward to Ballerina.
https://youtu.be/0FSwsrFpkbw?si=RP8ZqIx8Lax6UZym