A rip roaring thriller spoiled by the death of a dog.

Rating: 10/10 (13 March 2015)

I hate movies which include dogs, because somewhere along the line that dog is going to get killed.
I guess I'm a sensitive man, but at the beginning of this movie when our hero receives a present of a little spaniel dog from his wife who had died of cancer, this film took on heart, but it was all short lived, because the dog got killed by thugs who beat up our hero John Wick and then you hear the dog yelp and then you see the dog from it's back, lying dead by John Wick when he wakes up from his beating.
John Wick the character has heart, he cries at his wife's grave side, I lost my own wife to cancer in September last year 2014, so I could empathize with the character.
All in all this was a very good movie with excellently rehearsed fight scenes, very cleverly directed. But getting passed the doggy being killed, kind of spoiled it for me.