In the entire history of American action cinema, there are very, very few movies that take their fight scenes as seriously as John Wick does.
Carefully and patiently, Viggo tells Iosef that he and his associates used to call John Wick, that nobody, baba yaga—the bogeyman.
They’re more likely to make John Wick clones, like Ben Affleck in The Accountant, say, or Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde.
John Wick is, in a lot of ways, a traditional action movie, one that works very much within the rules and structures of the genre.
A year before starring in John Wick, Keanu Reeves went to Hong Kong and China to make his directorial debut.
Keanu Reeves is, quite simply, one of the greatest action stars of all time.
But other than John Wick, my favorite action movie of 2014 was another strange mood piece about an unstoppable killer. »