John Wick (2014) 🚨SPOILER WARNING🚨Review LIVE w/ LindyRigg | 3.27.25

John Wick (2014) 🚨SPOILER WARNING🚨Review LIVE w/ LindyRigg | 3.27.25

Tonight, we have our friend and fellow beer & movie enthusiast, LindyRigg!!

Keanu Reeves in 2014 had a career on life support.

He desperately needed something to revive what he had worked to build up.

Then along came a little movie named “John Wick”, with Reeves as the titular hero, and as if injected with some career epinephrine, he was back baby!

Now 11 years later, we have a whole John Wick Cinematic Universe and Reeves has another hit franchise, like his Matrix franchise.

However, it all started with the original “John Wick” that I retro review this week.

I remember loving this movie but it never dawned on me that it would spawn a whole line of sequels, a TV show and spin-offs.

I’m glad it did but for this week it’s the OG.

Reeves, of course, plays a former hitman who worked for the Russian mob but left to live out his life with his beloved wife.

However, tragedy strikes and claims his wife’s life and John’s mourning begins.

As fate would have it, he has an encounter with the son of a Russian mob boss, and that son later assaults John to steal his car, and also kills John’s puppy, a gift from his late wife.

This triggers the killer side of John Wick, that he thought he’d buried to be a loving husband to his wife, back into action.

Now John has a singular, laser-focused mission.

Kill those responsible, and anyone that gets in his way, and his former employers know enough about him to know they should be afraid, very afraid.

This is directed by Chad Stahelski, Keanu’s stunt double in the Matrix movies, so the action is choreographed beautifully.

Also, for any gun aficionados, this movie is Candyland, with all the different types of firearms used in this.

It’s got everything to meet your action movie needs and it’s this week’s review.

“John Wick” also stars Michael Nyqvist, Alfie Allen, Willem Dafoe, Dean Winters, Adrianne Palicki, Omer Barnea, Toby Leonard Moore, Daniel Bernhardt, Bridget Moynahan, John Leguizamo, Ian McShane and Lance Reddick.