Review of John Wick (2014) by Bradysmith — 18 Jul 2016
John Wick is fun and exciting to be sure but it's not without its flaws. As an action movie it delivers with astonishingly choreographed fight scenes, stylish visuals, and a cool main character. If that was everything a movie needed it would be close to perfect but John Wick also has a strange breed of stupidity running through its veins.
This manifests itself in cartoonish characters, a last act that goes a little too far over the top and an overplayed song ("killin strangers"). Luckily though the movie knows very well that it's just a fun, well put together B movie.
It never takes itself too seriously and this helps it make it past some of its more clichéd and dimwitted aspects. Keanu isn't what any respectable film buff would call a truly good actor but he fits perfectly into this role and even on occasion gets a scarily focused look in his eyes when he's taking out the trash.
On a side note, if the last act of the movie would have stayed closer in tone and style to the incredible club scenes it would probably have fared even better. As is it's fun and I'm looking forward to the sequel.
This review of John Wick (2014) was written by Bradysmith on 18 Jul 2016.
John Wick has generally received very positive reviews.
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