Best Fight Choregraphy in a Long Time

Rating: 9/10 (2 September 2019)

In an age of comic book movies and seemingly endless reboots, along comes "John Wick": an original film with an aging Keanu Reeves as a retired super-assassin brought back in to world he tried to leave for the best of action film reasons... REVENGE.
What sets this film apart are the incredible fight scenes that are wide-shot, uninterrupted gun play extraordinaire... there's nothing else in Hollywood that comes close to this kind of combat choreography. This is close-range, brutally effective, 'tier one operator'-level stuff. You can tell Reeves dedicated himself to this role with vigor and the results are spectacular.
The story is lean and slightly cliche as are the one-note Russian villains, but when the gun play and stunts are is this good, who cares. I could never buy Keanu Reeves in the role of a bad ass (the Matrix) but his his performance in John Wick is very satisfying and really sells the idea that this guy could kill everyone in the room with a pencil if need be.
If you love action, do yourself a favor and watch this film. Thank me later.