John Wick the action and emotionally packed movie that doesn't shift away from violence

Rating: 8/10 (24 January 2020)

This movie is such an overwhelming film filled with so many exceptional action packed scenes that have insanely great choreography to match it. But at the same time the movie has spectacular dialog to help us understand why John Wick does what he does in this movie. Another fantastic thing in this movie is all the acting in this movie is just so perfect and acted out amazingly by every actor.
John Wick is about a legendary ex-assassin named John Wick (Keanu Reeves) who is brought back into the fold out of retirement from his violent career because some ruthless mobsters take away John's favorite car and kill the last present his wife gives him after she dies which is a puppy. But John releases the unforgiving killing machine inside himself and is out to get retribution for their actions. While at the same time the leader of the Russian mob named Virgo Tarasov (Michael Nyqvist) puts out a giant reward for John's head because he is trying to kill his son Losef Tarasov (Alfie Allen).
Directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch did a great job with this movie showing how they can make a really slick looking movie with superb action scenes but also create amazing dialog scenes to go with the movie. Both Stahelski and Leitch are veteran stuntman and in John Wick they really show how well they can direct a movie. Unlike Victor Armstrong who is also a veteran stuntman, he was great at being a stuntman but when it came to directing a movie it didn't go as great. Also I love how the directors are able to understand the whole action packed parts of the movie and just how wonderful they are to showing it. One of the only problems I have with the movie is the beginning and the ending to John Wick, it just seems so tacked on and could have been done better.
I would personally say that John Wick is one of Keanu Reeves best movie performances he's ever had to do, well all of the John Wick movies so far. But this is probably one of his best yet. John Wick requires so much out of Keanu Reeves from all of the stunt work he does to all of the emotional scenes. On a side note I would like to add that Keanu Reeves does almost all of his stunt work in John Wick so to get prepared for this movie he had to do a lot of extra training to get physically prepared for the movie. But I would personally say that it really paid off for Keanu Reeves to do the extra work.
In the trailer for this movie you see that some Russian mobsters kill his puppy and take his car and then he goes to seek revenge. I would say that in the movie it explains more into the reason why he goes seeking for vengeance and at first when you watch the trailer you're probably telling yourself how stupid of a reason that is to go on the bloody trail that he does in order for vengeance. But when you watch the movie from start to finish you start putting yourself into John's shoes and you are more understanding into why he does what he does.
Also when you watch the movie, you start to see how the writer (Derek kolstad) is kind of building the world that John Wick is in and how it helps set up for more John Wick sequels to be made and not seem forced on us. The writer creates this whole underground secret organisation of criminals. Unlike the movie series called The Maze Runner where at the end of the movie it just says and there's gonna be more movie. In John Wick it just builds the universe for more sequels to happen and it also shows the immense potential in the franchise.
John Wick is such a wonderful piece of work and I would recommend every action movie lover to see it. But also I believe that this movie would be great for almost anyone above the age of fifteen only because it is rated R. Also if you are a Keanu Reeves fan then I definitely believe you should see it due to his performance. But whatever you do when you see this movie don't view it for just the action. Take the whole movie all together.