John Wick

Watched the first John Wick movie a couple of years ago. Came across it on Netflix while searching for Keanu Reaves. I hadn’t heard about it at the time but of course today it has become a well known franchise. This weekend chapter 4 came out in the cinema here and I decided to catch up on the first 3 films first. As it had been a long time since I had seen the first John Wick I decided to watch it again. The role fits Keanu Reaves well as the emotionless, almost robotic killer. In the first movie we get introduced to John Wick shortly after his wife has died. He has left his past as a killer behind him but when Russian gangsters break into his house to steal his Mustang, kill his dog and beat him up he is out for revenge as the dog was his last connection to his deceased wife. The rest of the movie is a merciless manhunt with John Wick fighting and killing everyone that gets in his way. The fight scenes are well choreographed but quite brutal and the number of gangsters that get a bullet in the head from close and not so close range is too large to keep track of. It reminds me of the movie called bullet to the head. Willem Dafoe plays a nice role as the old partner/mentor of John. A real super villain movie. Allowed to root for the killer because it is one villain killing other villains.