A Chick Flick for Guys

Rating: 10/10 (17 February 2017)

This is a love letter to the fans who love action movies done right. Your prayers have been answered. Both John Wick1&2 is equivalent to a chick flick for guys. Beautiful scenery,locations, great action scenes that you can follow along and are not all shaky camera and choppy. The world of John Wick is breathtaking and amazing. You're dragged right back in the opening shot of the first scene. I love the fact that he actually takes time to reload the gun and he gets his butt kicks a lot and still fights. He's not a superhuman like Tom Cruise in MI movies or the Fast and Furious franchise. I really enjoyed this movie from beginning to end. The climax of course was seeing Morpheus and Neo reuniting on screen for the first time in nearly 20 years on the rooftop scene. I feel so bad for John wanting a simple life and being forced back into this world. There's one scene in the movie where John shouts that you wanted be back and now I'm back. And I wondered was that John talking to the antagonist or 50 something year old Keanu breaking the fourth wall and talking to us, the audience, for wanting this sequel so bad. And my goodness, Keanu, the writers, the directors, and the studio heard our prayers and created a movie that lived up to the hype of the original and complemented it perfectly. It wasn't too big or too small. It was just right and I think that a lot of times that successful movies sometimes forget the magic formula that made the original so special and overdo it in the second movie.The directors of JW2 did it exactly right. Can't wait until John Wick Chapter 3 is released so that we can give this man some peace. Definitely recommend.