Since others have covered the action, this is more an emotions review. For people who say that Keanu Reeves can't act and is The Stoic all the time, just direct them to John Wick so they can see to the contrary.
When John gets the beagle puppy Daisy as a present from his late wife, Helen, as he reads the letter his hands visibly shake and he chokes back tears. The '69 Mustang he could've done with losing, but not Daisy when his past as a Russian hit-man comes back to bite him in the form of Iosef Tarasov. Iosef who wants John's Mustang which he won't give up, leading to Daisy's death after John's place gets ambushed. Charlie the 'waste management' guy was a favourite with me, along with Jimmy the police officer, they were funny.
Charlie, Harry and Perkins are very interesting side characters as is Marcus. It's nice to see how friendly Marcus and Charlie are with John. The scene where Iosef gets beats by his father Viggo Tarasov for stealing John's car and killing his dog, is quite the thing. Especially, as Viggo is explaining that Iosef is doomed, because John's not the boogey man, he's the man you send to kill the boogey man and there is nothing that Iosef can do about it.
Marcus while being a hit-man himself, is a good friend to have to cover your back. Marcus might twist and turn a bit, but his death is meaningful after helping John with Perkins. Perkins the hit-woman who takes on John's contract, nearly winning her and John's fight until she gets knocked out. Many awesome fights later, it's Viggo, John and a few others in a warehouse. John gets angry, screaming about how he'll kill Iosef and Viggo too for what they did. It's very satisfying when Iosef finally dies, proving that no Daisy wasn't, "Just some fucking dog.", she was John's hope after Helen and Iosef killed it.
If only they'd left poor Daisy alone, they would've lived.
All in all it's in my opinion, a very good and emotional movie, while still very much deserving it's action movie status.
Daisy, daisy
Since others have covered the action, this is more an emotions review. For people who say that Keanu Reeves can't act and is The Stoic all the time, just direct them to John Wick so they can see to the contrary.
When John gets the beagle puppy Daisy as a present from his late wife, Helen, as he reads the letter his hands visibly shake and he chokes back tears. The '69 Mustang he could've done with losing, but not Daisy when his past as a Russian hit-man comes back to bite him in the form of Iosef Tarasov. Iosef who wants John's Mustang which he won't give up, leading to Daisy's death after John's place gets ambushed. Charlie the 'waste management' guy was a favourite with me, along with Jimmy the police officer, they were funny.
Charlie, Harry and Perkins are very interesting side characters as is Marcus. It's nice to see how friendly Marcus and Charlie are with John. The scene where Iosef gets beats by his father Viggo Tarasov for stealing John's car and killing his dog, is quite the thing. Especially, as Viggo is explaining that Iosef is doomed, because John's not the boogey man, he's the man you send to kill the boogey man and there is nothing that Iosef can do about it.
Marcus while being a hit-man himself, is a good friend to have to cover your back. Marcus might twist and turn a bit, but his death is meaningful after helping John with Perkins. Perkins the hit-woman who takes on John's contract, nearly winning her and John's fight until she gets knocked out. Many awesome fights later, it's Viggo, John and a few others in a warehouse. John gets angry, screaming about how he'll kill Iosef and Viggo too for what they did. It's very satisfying when Iosef finally dies, proving that no Daisy wasn't, "Just some fucking dog.", she was John's hope after Helen and Iosef killed it.
If only they'd left poor Daisy alone, they would've lived.
All in all it's in my opinion, a very good and emotional movie, while still very much deserving it's action movie status.