This movie has such awesome style, such an awesome world

Rating: 9/10 (24 July 2015)

I'd like to spend this review addressing the complaints people have put up.
1- John Wick gets knocked out by a bunch of thugs even though he's an unbelievable badass.
He has been retired for 4 years, in the same house, preoccupied by his new dog, after being waken up from sleep, in the absolute dark. Whatever level of skill you have, that's absolutely acceptable. In fact, it would've not made sense if he actually was able to stop them - then maybe those giving negative reviews would've pointed out how THAT was absurd. He even admits, after being questioned by the guy at the club saying he was "rusty", and throughout the film, we see mentions of him getting back to form, getting back to his previous life.
2- John Wick goes after them "just for a dog" OK, aside from the fact that a dog lover can get pretty attached to a dog, especially at the stage of the dog still being a helpless puppy, and aside from the fact that the act of killing that puppy to "shut him the dog up" is pretty freaken disgusting, aside from the fact that John Wick even addresses it in the film saying that this dog was the last gift from his late wife and it made him feel like he wasn't alone in the world, aside from all that, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT A FREAKEN CRAZY BADASS MAFIA Hit-man/ASSASSIN. DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN WALK UP TO A GUY LIKE THAT, KILL HIS DOG, AND EXPECT HIM TO JUST LEAVE IT ALONE?! Do you see the context here! I mean for God's sake! 3- John Wick never misses a shot, but when it comes to killing that son, he misses 5 shots in a row.
Would you give that a rest. Yeah, it's a stretch, but the movie would've ended right there, and honestly, I think I was too busy with the awesome action, incredible music, and sleek style of everything, things like that can easily be forgiven.
4- How has the kid of Viggo not heard of John Wick when seemingly everybody has heard of John Wick? Did you see the kid? He doesn't seem like the guy who likes to think too much of anything, and given the way his father distanced himself from him, along with the fact that the kid looks pretty young (so 4 years before, he would've not been completely aware of the exact business going on with his father) as well as how there is a WHOLE WORLD OF PEOPLE IN THIS, it seems fair.
5- Bad acting The only scene I really noticed the acting dropped was at the very end, with the admittedly cheesy "No more bullets." Is that the only thing you're referring to? If so, then bloody hell, there's a whole 90+ minutes to the film, most of which was action, so why are you even mentioning the acting as if this was some romantic drama where the acting is the main aspect of the film.
6- Bad dialogue Yeah, this I just don't get. There were some pretty nice dialogue sections, and so much of the film was world-building, I mean, how often do you see this in a film done at this level? 7- Action was just a rip-off of other films Yeah, shooting a gun is totally a rip-off. Sure. Let's go with that.
8- Lack of character development I severely have to disagree on that. Through the great world-building, we see these characters coming in and they all fit very nicely in this universe, that with that alone, you get the needed characterization. Furthermore, on John Wick himself, through his interaction with other characters, his past, his amazing skill, you get plenty of characterization, and thinking about it, what scene would you have taken out of the film to replace with 'character development'? Cuz anything added to the film and it would've felt longer than it needed to be.
9- Not much of a story here.
This movie does hit a lot of clichés in, and there isn't some big moral lesson to take home or commentary on the life of gangsters and mobsters, but really, who was walking into this expecting a great story? And for those who did, this isn't that kind of film where the story takes primary presence in the film. In my mind, there are action films that are meant for awesome stylistic action, and there are those that are meant to tell a great story told through some thrilling action here and there. Very rarely do you 'hit two birds with one stone' in these kinds of films, and the films that try that end up not being able to balance the two and ultimately fail story-wise. So it's a good thing that this film didn't try for too much of a story, because that would've detracted from what the film was actually good at. And really, the story made up for itself with the world-building.
10- HOW SO EVER CAN I TRUST IMDb AGAIN?! OH MY! Really? Really? This is the film that made you distrust IMDb ratings? REALLY?!