Brainless shooter

Rating: 3/10 (19 January 2015)

The start of this movie was a promising one. Stylish shots and images, nice art direction. Fine storytelling to, providing a decent background for the main character, while at the same time introducing some cool players (and great actors, like Willem Dafoe and Michael Nyqvist). In just a few images we feel for John Wick and we really want to know how he's going to live the rest of his live. And then the shooting begins. And continues. And continues. And continues until every logic or possibility to feel any empathy at all has vanished completely. The movie has turned itself into a brainless shooting game with no story whatsoever, no plausible motives, not one character that we can relate to and hardly any reason for the cinema loving public to want to make it till the end of the story.