A movie that has grown on me overtime

Rating: 8/10 (23 February 2017)

Plot: An ex-hit-man comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
This film has grown on me overtime, I at first didn't like it but I realized that it was because when I went to see it at a free screening, I was seated up close to the screen not letting me enjoy the experience throughout. Since then in order to get ready for the sequel, I re watched this and was generally surprised.
This film has a feel of an old school 80-90's action flick using wide shots instead of shaky cam for the action and I love it, every action scene works to its advantage and showed how capable these directors are. Keanu Reeves is in my opinion an underrated actor that should get more respect, and I'm glad that he got a lot of praise for this film cause he deserves it. I don't want to shortchange the rest of the cast because they are also really good including Ian McShane, John Leguizamo, Alfie Allen, Michael Nyquist, Adrianne Palicki, Willem Dafoe and etc. Palicki and Nyquist are the biggest surprises to me especially since I wasn't a big fan of either of them, but they both surprised me in the end.
In Conclusion, John Wick is of the best revenge films that I've seen in a while, this film and its sequel should be lessons to producers of Hollywood in how to make an action film and how they should make them from now on.