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John Wick (2014)
A gift from the his dead wife reawakens the monstrous killing beast in John. As he goes out to hunt down his wife's killers one after the other.
31 January 1965
29 September 1942, Blackburn, Lancashire, England, UK
15 October 1964, Miami, Florida, USA
31 October 1975, Butte, Montana, USA
6 May 1983, Toledo, Ohio, USA
June 21, 2016
John Wick has a more identifiable ancestry: the chic, sleek and widely imitated South Korean gangster film. The copy is not as effective as the original, but at 101 minutes, it's at least efficient.October 24, 2014
John Wick feels like action manna for its cleanly designed gun-fu sequences... but the revenge plotting is deeply dopey and we shouldn't have to choose one or the other.November 10, 2014
Stylishly violent and not much else.July 14, 2016
John Wick is the platonic ideal of a disposable action movie. It gives you everything you want, nothing you don't, and gets you in and out of the theater.February 24, 2017
It is a wildly entertaining film, from the action scenes, to the sets, to the soundtrack, and in addition, it will likely be known as the comeback role for Keanu Reeves.February 28, 2017
John Wick is a slick gangster flick simmering in a suppurating green light, featuring Reeves as a kung-fu assassin pursuing... well, the plot's not really important. What is important is the fact that Reeves is still doing this at 50.January 05, 2015
Stahelski and Leitch, both former stunt men, unsurprisingly tackle action sequences with glee... but the quieter scenes are more sophisticated, incorporating a sense of fantasy and visual splendor that almost makes the wafer-thin plot feel fresh.February 08, 2017
...depicts a man who unleashes his mourning on the world.January 05, 2015
Yet, for all the film's stylishness and a body count worthy of a small civil war, there's no getting around the fact that stiff, stoic Reeves -- who is capable of a few funny, deadpan lines -- isn't a particularly compelling lead action figure.October 27, 2014
Action movies are about movement, and John Wick pursues that goal with remorseless verve.January 05, 2015
It's not perfect. But it is special, especially for a mid-budget Hollywood action drama, and it has stuck firmly in my mind since that late-night screening last Friday.April 03, 2017
It's a rare screenplay that can introduce a compelling action character, create an entire world just beneath our own, and entertainingly destroy it from the inside out all in a hundred minutes.