One of the best action movies of the decade

Rating: 8/10 (12 February 2017)

The bloody action movie added a new style to action and reignited the long career of Keanu Reeves as an action star. John Wick (Reeves0 is a retired assassin who has moved on to a simple life with his wife when she dies of cancer. Overcome with grief, Wick is only able to have a semblance of hope from the gift his wife left him, a small puppy. Wick encounters Russian gangster Iosef Tarasov (Alfie Allen) and seemingly insults him by not selling Wick's awesome car, Iosef retaliates by coming to Wick's house, beating him up and killing his dog. This action sparks a series of bloody gun battles as Wick pursues Iosef through gangsters on a violent path for revenge.
Iosef's father, Viggo (Michael Nyqvist) is the head of the Russian mob and seeks to protect his son from the Boogeyman that is John Wick. He hires a former colleague of Wick's Marcus (Willem Dafoe) to take him out. Wick's path leads him to an exclusive assassin hotel where there are rules to not do business inside the walls and hints at a greater world of assassins.
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