Review of John Wick (2014) by Thewaffle — 04 Mar 2017

All style, no substance. After your star dispatches 12 baddies without breaking a sweat in his first action sequence, there's no tension. It's like watching a game of whack-a-mole as Keanu points his prop gun at the stunt doubles and they fall over while missing him with every shot.

Unlike Rambo/Die Hard/The Raid/Dredd or any other worthwhile action flick, John Wick has no motivation and its sense of humor is merely passable. It sports a completely unnecessary 20 minute code on the end that just rehashes the 20 minutes that came before that.

The director could at least have set up action scenes where it was plausible that the character would win through strategy or planning, but instead he literally walks into the middle of a room and then starts shooting.

This is just a mediocre thoughtless action movie.