John Wick (2014)
starring Keanu Reeves

Utterly boring first 10 minutes — highly skippable. To say this movie is slow to get going would be an understatement.

By half way in the action has become interesting. But by half way through it’s clear that the movie is still quite hollow — lacking depth of characters or plot. Endless plain combat scenes laced with disco lights and death metal music, and monotonous discussions between action scenes, doesn’t really constitute a good movie in my view — for this reason I give it a Below Average rating, contrary to all the marketing hype around this movie series. It’s like a messy version of Hitman, without the atmosphere, without the attractive woman, and pretty much without anything whatsoever.

Sequels

If you love this movie, you’re in luck because there are many sequels.

The first three movies are all on a similar level — that’s John Wick (2014) and John Wick Chapter 2 (2017) and John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum (2019).

Then the fourth movie — John Wick Chapter 4 (2023) — and the spinoff that followed — Ballerina (2025) — were both slightly better — I rated them Bang Average.