Such a pure action movie

Rating: 9/10 (25 May 2016)

The filmmakers of John Wick looked at action movies and figured out a way to make them better. What if you cut everything that the movie didn't need - the love interest, the convoluted plot, and the moralizing? What's left is a pure action movie without anything it doesn't need. They knew people liked choreographed action sequences and they filled the movie with plenty of them. In subtle ways, it makes advances in the genre. For example, notice how characters react when they hear the name - "John Wick." They're instantly terrified. The one thing that I wanted that the film didn't give me was something truly original. Unlike The Matrix or Inception which really changed action movies, this movie doesn't. But man, if it doesn't change the game, it plays the game like a true master.