Starring: Keanu Reeves, Willem Dafoe, Adrianne Palicki
Directed by: David Leitch

Today, I’ve just seen the newest action movie, “John Wick” and here is my review:

Plot/synopsis: John Wick is a mob hit man who upon falling in love with a woman would quit. 5 years later, his wife dies and to make sure he’s not alone she arranges for a dog to be brought to him after her death. One day some punks break into his home and they want Wick’s car so they beat him up and they kill the dog. Wick sets out to find them and learns the leader is the son of his former employer, Viggo. Viggo then sends some to take care of Wick but he’s too good. He then sets out to find Viggo’s son. Viggo puts a price on Wick’s head.

Well, this movie was quite a surprise. I was expecting this movie to be a typical popcorn action flick like the rest of ’em but surprisingly enough… this film wasn’t exactly that. Hollywood over the years haven’t been making great action movies. When was the last great action movie you saw? You’ve probably haven’t seen too many great action movies at all, right? This film here is the true action movie that we’ve all been wanting. It has the gritty violence and all kinds of entertaining as hell fight scenes.

Keanu’s character, John Wick, is a freakin’ badass. I thought this was his best role and I was impressed with Keanu’s acting in this film. Most of Keanu’s acting in movies over the years haven’t been that great and finally he have chosen a great role. I can see John Wick becoming an iconic hero kind of character along the same lines as Rambo, Rocky, The Terminator, etc. John Wick is gonna be the hero that everybody is gonna look up to. This character is very enjoyable.

I thought the entire cast did a phenomenal job. Willem Dafoe kills it like usual as he is a great actor. The main villain of the film is very cool too. Everybody did a great job even former, “Friday Night Lights” star Adrianne Palicki was badass too. She was one of the villain characters.

Best of all, this is an action movie that actually has a plot!!! The story and script was well-written too. The dialogue was well-spoken.

Finally, Hollywood made a great action movie. This is HOW good action movies are supposed to be. I thought this was an excellent film and definitely one of the best films of this year. Definitely check it out before it stops playing. I’ll be buying this movie on BluRay when it comes out. Bring on the sequel please!!!! This is Keanu’s best film since the first, “Matrix” movie.

I’ll give this film a score of 5 out of 5 as in “excellent”.

Kev