Brilliant fight sequences mixed with some painfully bad scenes

Rating: 6/10 (21 January 2015)

I am a big Keanu Reeves fan. I was looking forward to this movie and for the most part I was watching it with a huge smile on my face.
The action is brilliant. Reeves does some original stuff in his fight sequences and makes them look believable.
But there were several scenes which took the movie down a few pegs in my opinion. Keanu's super tough character John Wick struggling to take down a girl who looks more like she should be selling perfume than she would be capable of fighting and killing? Sorry, this is not remotely believable.
John Wick getting caught and needing to be saved time and again throughout the film? How amateurish. Watch the Bourne trilogy instead. Bourne never made the mistake of letting anyone know where he was, which is why he was always a step ahead of his pursuers. If he ever got picked up he'd planned it in advance so as to attain information. By contrast John Wick continually blundered into situations that would have seen his end in an even half way real world.
But the fight scenes were original and awesome. Oh yeah, and regarding Keanu's acting being terrible, which is what I've read from others here on the discussion board and in reviews: he cries when he reads his wife's letter and he makes it look more believable than most actors I've seen dealing with similar emotional scenes. His acting was great.
So, will you walk away from this film considering it a masterpiece? Not if you like a decent amount of believability and logic in your story lines.
But is John Wick worth watching? Yes, if only for the fight scenes...I may even buy it on Blu Ray just for those moments.