You've seen this movie a thousand times.

Rating: 5/10 (17 January 2017)

Films like John Wick always have me thinking, "How does a movie like this ever get made and what better films are now still sitting on the shelf"? It's a big bundle of action movie clichés strung together and it doesn't take long to guess where this all will end. You watch and you think, "I've seen this all before". I wondered at some points if the movie was trying to spoof the genre because many of the action vignettes were trying so hard to be 'stylized' with long, choreographed fight sequences and bad music. I find it hard to understand what entertainment this movie would hold for an audience unless you enjoy watching bullets enter and exit heads with great regularity. Why are movie bad guys so stupid? Surely they've learned from watching James Bond films that you kill the protagonist when you have your chance instead of interrogating him first because we all know what happens then. And why are the baddies such poor marksmen? Perhaps they need to join John Wick's target range. Wick must take some powerful sedatives each night. I don't know how he'd sleep otherwise. Maybe Keanu has the same trouble after making this movie.