"There's no rhyme or reason to this life."

Rating: 7/10 (31 August 2015)

From my perspective there's only one reason to watch a picture like this, and that's to simply escape reality altogether and get your vicarious thrills through the impossible escapades of the film's titled hero. That's not meant to be a put down, I enjoy these flicks myself when I'm in the right frame of mind, but I don't pretend they're anything more than over the top, shoot 'em up action as they go for the proverbial gusto. I must have lost track of Keanu Reeves' career there for a while because I never would have considered him to be the kind of action hero the picture calls for here at the age of fifty. The role calls for a fair amount of athleticism and Reeves pulls out all the stops. Sometimes if I'm alert enough I'll start taking a body count when the carnage begins but with this one I got distracted by the waste disposal crew accepting their dinner reservations. Setting the torch to Viggo's (Michael Nyqvist) private stash was the icing on the cake for this viewer, drawing me to the conclusion that the Russian mobster would have been a whole lot better off offering the four million dollars to John Wick to just go away.