Watched John Wick and John Wick 2 over the past week, and immediately they became two of my favourite movies.
Very reminiscent of The Raid movies, which are two more of my favourites -right down to the first one basically being a 90-minute action scene, and the second one actually being a movie.
I cannot express to you how pitch perfect the entire thing is for me. Beautiful cinematography, and of Keanu Reeves, who has suddenly become one of my biggest celebrity crushes
his hair is shorter in the second one, which is sad. He is, to reference a meme, breathtaking.
And so is the violence. Not quite as truly bone-crunchingly horrendous as the Raid movies for the most part, but balletic and beautiful in the way it is choreographed and shot. None of this hyperactive Westernised editing here, it's all long, slow takes so you get to see just how impressive what everyone is doing is.
The cast! The casts of both! It's got Laurence Fishburne in the second one! Two different people from The Wire! The person who's First Officer in the Orville whose name I don't know and can't be bothered to look up! Ian McShane! Fucking COMMON is in the second one, are you for real???
The movie could do with a few more non-dick-havers in it with actual dialogue. The second one does a lot better with this, at least, although maybe I shouldn't be using the word 'dialogue' in that example.
They're just great, great movies. I'm watching the third one soon, and then buying the goddamn Blu-Rays.