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| Nelson_Mandela 05/22/19 12:15:38 PM #125: | #214. John Wick https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/98/John_Wick_TeaserPoster.jpg Dir: Chad Stahelski Genre: Action Year: 2014 John Wick represents the culmination of the action genre's trajectory since the late 90s. After the Schwarzenegger era ended, there was a huge vacuum of power in the genre. Eventually, instead of big hulky heroes carrying machine guns, what began to emerge was a new kind of action movie: quick hand-to-hand combat and gunplay featuring ostensibly "regular" men who have a hidden skill. This new subgenre rose to prominence in the Bourne trilogy and later the Taken movies, but came to a natural apex in 2014's John Wick. Having seen all three films in the series now, I can safely say that the original holds up as the best. The choreography and cleverness of the fight scenes may be better in its sequels, but the original movie has this wonderful simplicity that the others haven't been able to capture. John loves dog. Man kills dog. John kills everyone. As much as I enjoy the ridiculous world-building after this, the motivations can sometimes be hard to follow and the lore only adds a layer of complexity that the original John Wick doesn't have. Even now as studios are endlessly attempting to copy its formula, there's still nothing quite like it. --- "A more mature answer than I expected."~ Jakyl25 "Sephy's point is right."~ Inviso ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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