John Wick - Master of headshot It's a very enjoyable action flick. Really like how they establish an underworld society where you hire cleaners to take care of corpses and a santuary hotel for nefarious individual. They deals in mysterious gold coin currency. While Keanu provides the badassery of "gun-fu-ing" headshots left and right, there are enough impressive "actors" to drive the story forward.Especially Michael Nyqvist providing a pretty effective mob boss. Wish they can make another movie within this John Wick world. The action sequences are refreshing and efficient where you able to follow clearly who doing what.
i see it as a proficient gun user who is accurate at getting head shot. not gun-fu. try and watch equilibrium the movie gun-fu like dancing... pretty elegant..
Thought equilibrium\ultraviolet uses gun-kata as coined by the director.Gun-fu just over generalization of gunplay and martial arts combine together.It was never specifically defined to any specific style.The term originate from John Woo movies as a homage to HK action films.Again it's my opinion la and also how the movie being marketed!Not a fan of technicalities.
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Keanu's too old for this. Otherwise, he would have been stronger and quicker. Up until Iosef's and Viggo's ending...too weak. USA propaganda movie. Using a dog to insult the Russians. Ukraine-Russia conflict thingy.
The intention is to show he is rusty coming out from retirement and not silky smooth. So I suppose every Russian mob movies is a propaganda for US now. Ukraine/Russian conflict has more to do with the EU rather than US.EU the one who sets sanctions on Russia.
Beside head-shotting anything that moves in the first movie, the most intriguing part for me is the underground world of assassins. The sequel expand that world to basically give an excuse to unleash wanton of body counts. Give me John Wick anytime over any spandex clad cgi duking it out on the screen. Do wonder how many more sequels they are willing to put out given the fact set-up for the third already established in the cliffhanger. Another 3 more within the next 10 years otherwise old man Keanu will be rocking in wheelchair to gun fu his way out. Lionsgate on a roll right now with 4 oscar nominated movies and now this. Guess they manage to move away from making schlocky horror movies for years. They are on the verge of closing shop few years back.
Actually the assassin world felt like those Wuxia movies of yesteryear. Operate with code and honor. Laurence Fishburne's gang just like the beggar clan. The 3rd movie most likely end up high table power struggle with Winston's marker as a wild card. I don't think we see the last of Rome continental manager or even Peter Stormare for that matter.
there is a mention that a member of High Table comes from China....
would it be part 3, John Wick in China vs Donnie Yen?
With Donnie Yen's name, will draw chinese investor hence dumbing down the story to cater China market. Not that it can't be rule of exception, just that I doubt it can be faithful to what we came to love about John Wick. Would rather they use Iko Uwais or someone famous but not a superstar as that will free up the film makers from tip toeing to politically correcting expectation of these superstars. No way Donnie Yen will be portray as someone inferior to Keannu Reeves. Unless there are a really a good story out of it. The china censorship will insist the mandatory ruling that crime will always pay and not to glorify it. That's the reason why action movies from China nowadays very arbitrary.
Lionsgate has won a bidding war to pick up a female-centric spec action script titled Ballerina that will serve as a platform for a possible John Wick spinoff.
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Ballerina has been described as being in the vein of La Femme Nikita, the 1990s female-centric assassin movie that helped launch the career of filmmaker Luc Besson, but with a more pulpy, hyper-stylized bent a la Quentin Tarantino or Matthew Vaughn.
Unsure will Chad Stahelski had anything to do with it.....
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The ever expanding cast of John Wick 3....The Raid's Mad Dog, 90's action star Mark Dacascos, Matrix's stunt extraodinaire Tiger Hu, Angelica Huston, etc....
I wonder where the fountain of youth located in Hollywood. That's a premium 51 year old cougar....lol....
As a sequel, this is a better movie than the second one. This instalment greatly benefited from having actual action stars in it. Mark Dascascos and The Raid Bros ramps up the energy for the last action set-piece. Halle Berry another fine addition to the ever expanding characters of "Wick-niverse". Enjoy her action set-piece the most for me. Another cool bits are the creative kills this time around.
Pretty sure will revisit this over and over again.
Just remembered there was a rumbling about a spin-off JW movie titled "Ballerina" from last year's article. Wondering is it the tattooed dancer when Keanu seek passage from Angelica Huston. The camera linger on her for a considerable amount of time.
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