The Vidiot Reviews...

Rating: 6/10 (3 February 2015)

John Wick
The ideal leisure pursuit for a retired hit-man is assisting retirement communities with their mercy killings.
Mind you, the pensioner in this action movie is too busy with revenge killings.
Following his wife's (Bridget Moynahan) funeral, former mob enforcer John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is accosted by Iosef (Alfie Allen), the son of his former boss Viggo (Michael Nyqvist), who kills his dog and steals his car.
To protect his son from Wick's legendary wrath, Viggo puts a bounty on Wick's head that attracts the hit-man's contemporaries (Adrianne Palicki, Willem Dafoe) to the party.
They, along with Viggo's other cronies, might just come close to matching Wick's lethalness.
From stylized shootouts to choreographed hand-to-hand, this fresh take on the standard vengeance tale is relentless in it's delivery of kinetic violence, snappy dialogue and sad faces from Keanu.
Incidentally, Wick's unwillingness to stay retired is why millennial hit-men can't get a job.
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