John Wick movie review- by What The Flick?!

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Them up. You like it, huh? Everybody, what the flick, Alonzo Bibbs, Matt, Keanu Reeves is back with something he hasn’t had in a while, a movie that critics like a good movie.

It’s true.

All right. John Wick is a story about a bad man doing bad things to bad people. Let’s watch the trailer for.

Jonathan, you got out once you give so much as a pinky back into this pond, you may find something reaching out to pull you back and it’s personal.

Would you get that car? What does it matter? It’s not what you did, son, it’s who did it to nobody, but nobody.

Is John Mark.

Sorry to hear you’re working again, just sorting some stuff out, your crew, how many? As many as you have.

Hey, John, I thought I let myself in. People keep asking me if I’m back. Yeah, I’m thinking on back.

This movie is awesome. I had so much fun with this movie. Yeah, this movie takes a lot of ask, doesn’t it?

It’s just it’s an unapologetically straightforward, gloriously shot action movie. Like the action is very cool. Doesn’t call attention to itself. I don’t think I don’t think I saw a single shot of slow motion, the entire movie. It it’s just well choreographed, well shot. It’s the face shooting best movie I’ve ever seen in my life. I’ve never seen this many people shot in the face in one movie before.

I thought there’s a couple of places where they’re doing the like tight handheld cameras, fight scenes, which I’m never a big fan of. I’ve talked about that here before, but I did like this movie. I like that it starts out, you know, it starts out pretty grim and it takes a minute to get started. And then when it comes out, what Alfie Allen’s character, who we know it’s theater, great joy has messed with John Wick. And everyone around him is like, oh, no.

Oh oh. It’s this whole attitude of like, oh, that’s the wrong. Oh. Oh, no. And and.

And his actions live up to that kind of selling. And so it’s yeah. I like this a lot. There’s a surprising amount of laughs in this.

It’s got a sense of humor. And I think it’s because the world that they’ve created in it is very playful. There’s lots of details that are fun. There’s a hotel for hitmen and there’s like rules, you know, like no one killed anyone. Yeah, exactly. But like, you know, there’s there’s like a playful element to a lot of the characters. But I love what a character with reputation can be. Such a gift for an actor. But the movie has to play it right. Know something like the third man. You hear Harry Lime over and over again that when he finally shows up in the third damn act, you’re like, yeah, here, you know, there’s this bit where it’s like, you know. You know, who cares if I shot this guy? It was John Wick, you idiot, you know? And everyone’s just like, who? Yeah. And the other thing I like is, you know, it’s a it’s a cheap shot the way that they get John Wick into action. His wife died. She leaves him a dog.

So I have something to love and the dog gets killed. And it’s brutal. Yeah, it’s absolutely brutal. This is not a spoiler. It’s on the first fifteen minutes. But like, every single person is just like you killed his dog, right? Kill his son. Don’t kill his dog. The dog is messed up. You can’t do that like we don’t blame you. It’s a puppy. It’s a very cute beagle populist puppy.

This is a good year for tough criminals bonding with puppies. The drop. Yeah. This is a movie in which the first part is all Keanu Reeves playing with a puppy. The drop is all Tom Hardy playing with a puppy trying to protect the puppy from a bad man. That’s a good device. I want to see more of it. If we can somehow find a way to edit that into Mad Max Fury Road, I would love that. I’m kidding. So to makes a good year. I’m just I’m just good. But I like this movie a lot. It feels like a Parker novel.

Yeah, it definitely does. It did make me think of point blank. Oh yeah. Right. I mean, this is you know, again, this is a character that might be a bad guy. You know, it’s almost you know, he at times I was thinking of Leon from the professional. Yeah, this is a bad man and he he’s not nice. And, you know, you don’t necessarily get a sense that he really cares about the innocence. I mean, he’s not using people as shields, but, you know, he leaves a serious trail of bodies in his wake. It’s ridiculous. Get to one guy. And it’s not that he’s you know, we would see other heroes disable, you know, the guard type characters. He doesn’t care. He just shoots him in the head.

Well, he knows where he is, just like, oh, hey, Steve, just go. I’m not. But yeah, I mean, there is a little bit of like the professional courtesy happening.

That’s that’s kind of nice and kind of fun. You know, it’s you get the sense that this is a small community of killers and they kind of all know each other. Yeah, but I did like this. I don’t know that I loved it as much as you. I think that it does drop the ball in a couple of places. The ball.

I think that the I didn’t totally feel like the car and the dog and all of it like it was a little too much of a build up.

Sometimes I think a little I guess partly towards the end, like and I know it’s hard to say without spoiling it, but towards the end there’s a scene the way the movie ends. Felt a little too neat for me.

Yeah. That’s a little tiny. And that was that’s where it bothered. It raises it raises a question that I think like if John was it, we could ask this question earlier that we wouldn’t have had a movie. Yeah, I’ll give you that. That’s that’s a problem.

I feel like, you know, there’s two different versions of of payback, the point blank remake. Right. And one of those has the neater ending and one of those has the messier ending. And John Wick flirts with doing one of them and pivots and goes in the other. And that’s where it bothered me, I thought that it would have been a lot easier to go with the messier ending and it doesn’t.

I’ll give you that. I think that’s fair. I still think a tidy ending isn’t the worst thing in the world, especially in a film that’s so straightforward. This is a story about a man who goes on a mission to do something because of the principle of the thing. And it’s just a gunshot. It’s just him plowing through the movie to get to the end.

And then it ends in a way that I was like, OK, cool. Yeah, but it’s so much fun.

I really I think the action sequences in this movie are some of the best we’ve seen in a while. It’s just a great way of shooting action without calling too much attention to it. You choreograph it well, you make it entertaining, you make it broad. And it was great. It’s so much fun. I love old. I totally want to go see this numbers, please.

Eight and a half or eight. Eight. I’d given it a nine. I really liked it a lot. So that’s an eight and a half from us. It is at ninety three on the tomato meter, which is the three for Keanu Reeves action. Yeah. Yeah. Well who’d have thunk anyway. Check it out. Thanks you guys.