John Weak

Rating: 6/10 (25 June 2017)

As 1st movie, this is a visually good film. Backgrounds, production design , costumes are good. Photography makes everyone look well included in a work of art. Characters are graphic and the whole film wants to be something of a high tolerance James Bond series. It certainly has potential, but where it fails is the emotion. No matter who portrays 007 there is generally a lot of emotion, even if it is anger or dislike. Here everybody seems cold, doing things with cold blood, acting with cold blood. I would be OK with that if action was a bit more realistic.
Keanu is my favorite since the matrix, however in this duology I was expecting a faster choreography. Everyone looks like waiting the next move to reply with his own . A bit like the first Jackie Chang movies but in slower pace. I would prefer Donnie Yen in the leading character despite the good looks of Keanu.
Ruby Rose is an interesting discovery. The innuendos-meeting with Ex-Morpheus is top. Photography is good. But John, despite all the surrounding wanna be myth, is quite Weak