Review of John Wick (2014) by 007Player — 11 Jun 2015

There is no plot. There is no story. There is a lot of action but it's directed at people in a conflated way that attempts to combine the death of the protagonists wife by cancer with the killing of his dog, which were two separate events that have very little to do with each other. Again although the killing of his dog was brutal, the protagonist wrongly conflates the two issues together. There is no background on his character at all which makes me wonder if there was a comic book I was supposed to read beforehand. There is plenty of death and action scenes that serve no point at all but then to just be brutal. The movie draws regular allusions to Keanu Reeves previous movies like "The Matrix" , "Matrix Reloaded", and "Matrix Revolutions" with a keymaker type character (was it even the same actor?) and the ending scene being in the rain between him and one person colliding to name a couple. However this movie is nothing like what it alludes to at all. Not in action or in plot substance.

Now for some speculation. This movie was so bad, I almost wonder if the entire thing was thought up by Eva Longoria (no joke that's one of the producers) to try and make men with dogs seem intimidating. There is trend going around where many single men adopt dogs instead of girlfriends so it really makes you wonder. This should give you an idea of the possibly terrible hipster thinking behind this movie.

1 out of 10. Get laid again instead of adopting dogs to fill your void, and don't conflate issues.