Don't believe the hype!

Rating: 4/10 (19 January 2015)

OK, many are attempting to show this as the return of Keanu Reeves, I'm sorry to say this is not true. Keanu Reeves never went anywhere and if you want to see a recent film with him that you would enjoy a lot more watch "Man of Tai Chi".
This film is weak, story wise as well as direction. It seems the director has watched many Michael Mann movies, but still failed on many levels. It seems there were Russian's involved in the film, but were incapable of finding proper Russian actors!?! This film is a average 4/5 stars out of 10, I'm just annoyed that it was all hype/fluff but no substance, this is pissing me off. Looking at the IMDb reviews it seems there is a campaign to make this film look better then it actually is.
The storyline is full of holes. John Wick is the man they call when you want to get rid of the bogeyman, I mean that is how much of a bad ass he is. Assassins/Mafia Dons..etc are supposedly afraid due to his amazing killing skills, so when 3 incompetent masked "russian" gangsters break into his house, kill his puppy and beat the crap out of him... wait for it... to nick(steal) his car, you wonder what sort of super hit-man is this who doesn't even have a decent alarm system or the capabilities to defend himself? Later on in the same house 10+ well armed (supposedly less incompetent) gangsters break into his house again and he kills them all without too much hassle.. so what gives? You are either a bad-ass or a pussy... not sure what the story writers were thinking off. There are other scenes(bath house), where he could have easily killed off the guy who nicked his car and the film would have finished within the first hour... but for some reason misses this guy, but everyone else in the bathhouse is dead.
Anyway, if you have to watch this, do it with very low expectations, you might enjoy it then. This is one of Keanus weaker movies, I would rate the "Bill & Teds" adventures above this one.