The subtitles got on my wick.

Rating: 5/10 (8 July 2017)

John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is a bad-ass: an ex-hit-man who comes out of retirement after the son of a Russian mafia boss steals his car and kills his dog (a parting gift from his dead wife). Busting out his weaponry, Wick cuts a bloody swathe through countless bad guys en route to his target, always finishing with a shot to the head.
The problem is that Wick is TOO much of a bad-ass. At no point did I feel like he was in real danger. Even after receiving a gash to the stomach the size of my fist and taking a severe beating, Wick makes Liam Neeson in Taken look like a pussy, escaping every situation with a flurry of fists and feet and umpteen carefully aimed rounds. It's as though he doesn't feel pain. It's hard to feel a genuine sense of excitement knowing that our hero (if a ruthless killer can be called a hero) is virtually indestructible.
The action is well staged, and the level of violence is high enough to please many fans of the action genre, but I was left feeling more than a little empty. In fact, I was hoping that Wick would die at the end to finally be reunited with his wife (and his dog), but seeing as there is already a John Wick 2, the chances of that happening seemed quite low.
5.5/10, rounded down for the novelty subtitles. Really, ordinary subtitles would have sufficed.