John Wick

Name: John Wick
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: 2014-10-16
Duration: 101 min

Don't set him off.

20141h 41mcritics 7.5/10

Action Thriller

Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.

starring Keanu Reeves, Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe

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Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.

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Read from 113 comments (67 from Reddit, 31 from Metacritic, 15 from TMDB reviews) — 28 of them described how it moves.

➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Warm most of the way through. Early on it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved. Very little of it ever resolves. Marked above the line: 1 that landed as a blow, 1 that got a real laugh.

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height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
marks: single moments — a jump, a blow, chills, a laugh
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit44 read

“from the first 20 minutes of the movie I could tell it was unique.”
LiteraryBoner▲ 469about 0–15% inread it ↗
“an hour and thirty minutes of non-stop action and thrills.”
hsk0328▲ 346about 0–100% inread it ↗
“I loved the pacing at the start of this movie. There was no BS explanations done by some hidden narrator. No drawn out dialogue (till later) to try to explain the story. Everything just flows along naturally.”
▲ 278about 0–33% inread it ↗
“another part I cracked up at was when Wick jumps on top of the SUV with that kickass shotgun, destroys the driver, points the gun at Viggo, and Viggo screams "COOL IT COOL IT COOL IT COOL IT COOL IT!!!!"”
ViperVoltage▲ 158about 60–70% inread it ↗

Metacritic8 read

“it's refreshing to just dispense with all the stereotypical origin trappings and get right into the firefights”
drqshadowabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“At first, I thought this film was nothing but pretty colors and empty noise. The washed blue palette *really* wanted to get across how sad this guy is. The sound mix seemed turned up too high. The funeral rained harder than Noah's flood. A collection of tropes and blunt filmmaking that even a cute dog couldn't overcome.”
BigYeedusabout 0–50% inread it ↗
“Then, slowly, as the movie lets you into its world, things start to pick up. Familiar faces start to appear. The intriguing mythology begins to grab your attention.”
BigYeedusabout 50–100% inread it ↗
“And *then*, John Wick tells his captor and former boss, Viggo, that yes, he is actually back. Keanu's voice snarls in way I've never heard before and it immediately straightened my back. All in from that point forward.”
BigYeedusabout 60–70% inread it ↗

TMDB8 read

“It’s end-to-end stuff, this, with loads of brutal action right from the start.”
CinemaSerfabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“Wick's wife dies of illness in the opening minutes.”
Harry_Gillabout 0–10% inread it ↗
“when three thugs break into his home, beat him, and kill the puppy to steal his car”
Harry_Gillabout 10–20% inread it ↗
“This is very much my kind of movie. Straightforward, lots of good action, our hero never waivers from his path and no social or emotional nonsense. Those who have watched the movie might wonder why I claim that there is not emotional nonsense since the entire plot is driven by John Wick’s very emotional response to his wife’s death and the subsequent killing of the dog that he received as a last present from her. What I mean with “no emotional nonsense” is that John Wick is never second guessing”
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