Excellent action movie

Rating: 10/10 (22 January 2015)

First off, in Keanu's personal life he has suffered quite horrific tragedy with his ex girlf and sister dying, so I felt that watching his wife in this circumstance dying would be quite horrible for him to go through. It is an interesting choice to say the least, as surely you would want to act out the opposite to real life? Maybe it was cathartic.
Secondly, this is an action movie with sprinklings of black humour throughout. Little real life moments where it comes up for air and then swiftly ducks it head back down into the crime world. I really appreciated that! The whole "did he really just get away with that?" kind of moment.
The storyline isn't award winning, or the Russian accents spot on, but as an action movie, how many of them have you felt the accents weren't right? Or the storyline wasn't so cripplingly in depth? I can think of many whose entire story plot could be written in a paragraph. Enjoy it for what it is and stop looking for a super elite snobby art-house film that isn't there. It is an ACTION movie.
I like the premise that the powerful crime people have access to a world with their own currency that separates them from the civilians, why couldn't that be a possibility? The hotel and club scene in the basement reminded me of Constantine a bit.
Sometimes you need a bit of simplicity in your life and a direct approach to things, and this film has you rooting for the good-bad guy (John), and that means some emotional investment, which works for me.