Movie: John Wick

There was no way that I was passing up this movie. After seeing a slew of Keanu Reeves's movies on HBO, Cinemax and Star Movies a couple of months before the release of this movie, I really, really had to see this. Movie critics pegged it as a good movie. Gun-fu as they called it. Whatever, it's Keanu. That's more than enough reason.

Truthfully, I wasn't digging Keanu's Snape-like do but then he's been criticized for his hobo look in real life so I'll let this one slide. I was miffed at how brief Bridget Moynahan appears in the film. She's beautiful and they could milk the sob story of how she's dying of cancer for all it's worth. But then I remember that this one's an action flick. So Keanu becomes a widower. His sweet wife leaves him a parting gift, a wee beagle pup named Daisy. They spend a lot of time together bonding in the Charger.

Wee beagle pup Daisy

The both of them meet their nemesis at a gas station. This spoiled brat of a boy was leering at the Charger and wanted it for himself, conversing in Russian, assuming that he wouldn't be understood. John Wick replies in fluent Russian surprising the entourage and calmly said that the Charger isn't for sale.

The not-for-sale Charger

We're led to think that all is well until John Wick wakes up in the middle of the night to odd noises. His house got trashed by the Russian posse he met earlier at the gas station. The spoiled brat really had a hard-on for the Charger and just had to have it. They even beat up poor Daisy and John Wick and left them for dead. John woke up to find a dead Daisy who made it to his side. A pissed off John Wick excavates his stash of weapons and calls people he used to work with to help him look for this SOB.

Yes, the same guy who plays a pathetic fool in Game of Thrones. He needs to die in this movie! Since he's still alive in GoT, poetic justice is imperative here.

A very unassuming hotel it seems but this is the shelter for the sinister. John Wick comes here to look for answers and for vengeance. This hotel has neat rules. No getting back at fellow criminals staying here, etc, etc. If you're expecting Keanu to dole out kicks like in the Matrix, it's basically his guns that does the job.

All is well after all, John Wick gets each and every Russian scumbag and he gets a new bad-ass dog in the end. Revenge really is, best served cold.