An atypical action film that's Hollywood action cinema at its best!

Rating: 10/10 (27 February 2019)

There's a reason why John Wick works big time as an atypical action film.
The film is dark, brutal and everything an extremely serious action film should be.
The first 30 minutes are enough to prove this.
Then we have some really unconventional action sequences that are both real and stylized at the same time. Keanu Reeves is really one of the greatest action stars, and this role is pretty much tailor-made for him.
While the film might feel slow in the beginning, you can realize it later on that like any other intelligent action movie, it needed a proper setup to get us invested emotionally in the characters and action sequences that follow.
John Wick turns out to be different from other killing-machine actioners in terms of its action and the universe it's set in. Every character has something to offer to the story, and the action sequences are filmed in a natural and realistic style. Honestly, I was expecting another quick-cutting action choreography like in most modern action movies (Don't get me wrong, I am a huge fan of the quick cutting technique), but the long-take action choreography involving mostly guns won me over. This is Hollywood action cinema at its best.