John Wick Review
Get Wicked off.. In all honesty, it's been a while since Keanu Reeves has really stared in a full-frontal film. Sure, you do have films like 47 Ronin and the Man of Tai Chi that he's stared in, but let's be honest, they're not really films that to me anyway, really appealed despite them being visually appealing. In the case of John Wick , you most certainly see the old Keanu; very bold and dark whilst having this stoic aurora which all play a great part in his grieving and aggressive character who can 'get the job done' if I can put it that way with his stunts and fatalities that he performs. While the film allows Reeves to rekindle his older self; channelling his inner-Neo from The Matrix into John Wick and stylistically appeals with it's chosen shot's and colour gradient and put's together the fighting choreography poetically hinting at Woo's 'Heroic Bloodshed' films of the late 80's and 90's, the narrative inconsist