John Wick the Dog

Rating: Null/10 (1 November 2014)

I just saw the movie and liked it. I do not judge the script though. Great acting of most of the players, good handling of action scenes, and I think very good directors. But why the dog? Why did anyone think the dog could made sense and serve the purpose in the film? I mean, a former hit-man, a cold blooded killer, a guy who is supposed to have little empathy with life in general, decides to decimate his former employer's underground empire because the death of, after all, just a dog? I got the meaning of the dog, okay? But the significance attached to it is so complex, it is about an emotional transfer from dead wife to his peace of mind and soul, tantamount to philosophical levels of understanding! This in my view throws the very premise of the movie into sheer uncertainty to the viewers. Why couldn't be much simpler, such as in for instance In order of disappearance, where the guy's son is murdered. Let's imagine the following premise: wife shows up at the outset, is kind, beautiful, gets more substance, borrows the sports car for shopping, the same scene at the gas station and, suddenly, after she gets back home, a bunch of drunk Russians kill her accidentally with a baseball bat just to steal the car who they so very much liked, and all this with John not being at home. Even more, Viggo' s sun was supposed to know who John was, since he is the son of the boss right, but, and this would have gone just fine along the lines of the movie, he was stupid and drunk enough to forget about his name (which the wife had mentioned at the gas station while refusing to tag a price) - even after 5 years of John retirement, the son would still have been a dead man and provoked the kind of anger and disaster etc etc. what do you think?