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John Wick (2014)

Rate: 5
Viewed: 4/25

JWick
4/25: That's why I stay away from movies made after 2000.

They're crap by and large. Enter John Wick to give Keanu Reeves' Hollywood career another life. While watching it, all I could think was he's way better than this. It's just a lot of choreographed robotic behavior with little to zero impact from being hit by people, cars, and bullets, among other things. When the final fifteen minutes came, I was hoping to see wires coming out of his body, so I could say, "That explains everything."

I like action movies with people behaving and feeling normally. Good examples are Die Hard and Assassins. Some of them even have a sense of humor. It's called personality. Well, John Wick is akin to playing a video game. *boom* *boom* in the chest and *boom* in the head non-stop for over ninety minutes. How boring. Given about the same premise, Eastern Promises had more heart.

All in all, John Wick is a long, unbelievable murder spree.