Intro
I lost count of the people who got shot in this movie. I am
not against glorifying violence (I did'nt mind 'Game of Thrones' for heaven
sake). But this pointless shoot fest, was irritating! IMDB and rottentomatoes
have rated this movie as above average, in their custom scale. Not only is this
poorly directed film- below average, it sucks. Please read my blog if you want
accurate reviews in the future :P
The Good
Some of the...hmmm... a couple of 'shoot them all' sequences
were really cool...
The Bad
...the rest of them were bad. I was rolling my eyes, again
and again, with every other bullet that got fired and with very other rock
music interlude where Keanu
Reeves struts about like a clumsy Rajini Kant. These
sequences passed through my brain like a bullet- this side in and that side
out. The movie is about this ex-hitman, who get enraged cause a bunch of punks
kill his dog. This happens five minutes into the movie. No time for the
audience to feel the love between the puppy and Wick. How is the puppy helping
him grieve his dead wife, no one knows. But
it is dead, five minutes into the film and the killing starts. Dishkum dishkum...
movie over.
The Ugly
My mom used to say- "Why do you watch these hollywood
action movies? they are no better than the Tamil action movies." Either, she
does not understand the sophistication required to make fight sequences
realistic, or she does not care. Either way- John Hick- proves to be a
brilliant case study to illustrate her point. And audiences want something more
these days, bad guys get killed in the end by good guy, after a lot of
violence, just does not cut it. The dog subtext, simply does not matter.
Verdict
I will take a swift death by a John Wick bullet, than watch
that movie again. 3/10 #avoidable.
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