The Killed His Dog

Rating: 9/10 (19 May 2017)

All I can say is woah, absolutely brilliant. I never expected a hit man movie to be this awesome. In fact I am surprised that I completely missed this movie and the only reason that I decided to watch it was because the poster for the sequel was just awesome. Okay, maybe one shouldn't judge a movie by its poster, but unfortunately I happen to be one of those people that get completely suckered in by a really cool poster. However after watching this film I'm not really all that convinced that the sequel is going to be anywhere near as awesome as this film I have to admit that I have always been attracted to 'Hitman movies' though as it turns out pretty much every hit-man movie that I have watched has ended up being little more than rubbish. That is until I saw this movie which left me absolutely gobsmacked. Almost every aspect of this movie was brilliant that it pretty much grabbed me right from the beginning and dragged me in right until the end. That is one amazing thing about this film, and that was that it ended really, really well, and even had quite a number of interesting twists in it that left me breathless.
John Wick is a hit-man, though he has since got out of the game. However his wife dies of cancer but her parting gift is a little puppy dog. One day, a couple of days after her funeral, this guy decides he wants his car so he breaks into his house, kills his dog, and steals the car. Well, it turns out to be a really big mistake. Mind you, this kid happens to be the son of the head of the Russian mafia, but that doesn't phase John Wick one bit because he used to work for the Russian mafia, and he was really, really good at what he did. This is why the Russian mafia attempts, and fails abysmally, and getting rid of him first.
One of the really cool things about this film is that within a short space of time it creates this world in which John Wick inhabits, and it is a world where things don't always go according to plan. It is a world of shifting alliances, and friendships that allow people to control their destiny. Even though Wick is the protagonist, he doesn't kill all of the antagonists because this world that has been created actually does a really, really good job of dealing with these problems in a realistic manner. Further, not everybody dies, which also adds to the awesomeness of the film.
This is an action movie, pure and simply. Honestly, I really don't know why anybody would have expected anything along the lines of The Godfather – it was never meant to be as such. It is its own film set in its own world with its own laws. It is a film where you can walk through the streets of New York with a machine gun, and a world where the police, who know who you are, will turn a blind eye to what is in effect a mass murder. In the end it is one awesome wild wide and if you love a good old fashioned action film then you will simply not be disappointed – especially since it comes down to the fact that they killed his dog.