"3 out of 4 stars"

Aaah men! These ego-maniac, car loving creatures. Good Will Hunting ended by saying "it was all about a girl", this one started by being all about a car...and a cute little puppy to be fair. I think Jerry Seinfeld's notion of men not having any thoughts might be relevant in this case! "We like women, we want women but that's pretty much as far as we've thought!"

"John Wick" makes "Taken" look like a sad excuse for an action movie. Yup. Ol' Neo has still got some tricks left up his sleeve. Gotta love seeing Keanu Reeves kill people. I think movies should be judged in the context of their genre. Me and my friend were pretty pumped to see this movie after hearing the raves about it and an 8.3 score on iMDB. I love seeing movies with my friend "P", 'cause her insights affirm mine. Of course, this movie was very smart and down right entertaining but frankly, we both thought no matter how good this kind of a movie is, you'd never give it 4 stars (of course there are the likes of Roger Ebert who give movies like Spiderman 2, 4 stars but that's Ebert. His words are holy). Actually, I am feeling pretty generous right now with my 3 star ranking of this movie. I considered 3.5 for a brief moment (just because I was biased by hearing all these good reviews) but then I remembered Eastern Promises. Boy, would that have been a mistreatment of one of Cronenberg's masterpieces!

If you want to see a jazzed up version of Eastern Promises, go see this one. I highly recommend it (guys with Mustang obsession more than the others would relate to it) BUT if you are more interested in seeing an A-class movie with A-class acting, then go see the real "Viggo"! But John Wick is not about A's. It's about forgetting the world for 2 hours and watching Keanu get the revenge you want from the world and freeing your anger and saying bye bye to $11! But seriously, again, in its genre, THIS is considered a masterpiece. For now, though. It can definitely be outranked by other action movies (and newer technology!) and it will definitely won't prompt you to watch it again. But if you want to be able to watch an action movie more than twice, this might be it. This doesn't go out to the die hard fans of Die Hard. Be faithful. There's a reason it's a classic.