With much of the marketplace distracted by awards contenders and the seasonal onslaught of horror offerings, "John Wick" may find an opening to start building some seriously sustained momentum with both male and female Reeves fans during its initial rollout. Economically recapping the recent personal loss of retired Russian mob assassin John Wick (Reeves) in nested flashbacks following the untimely death of his wife Helen (Bridget Moynahan), the opening scenes find Wick shuffling around in a fog of grief before latching onto his only remaining connection to her, a beagle puppy named Daisy that Helen arranged as a gift before her passing. First to consider the opportunity is Wick's former colleague Marcus (Willem Dafoe), a crack sniper, as well as Perkins (Adrianne Palicki), a female contract killer who's as deadly as she is gorgeous. With a tendency to favor skillfully framed master shots over quick cuts from multiple angles, he immerses viewers in dynamic onscreen clashes that recall John Woo's classic bullet ballets with an overlay of emotional intensity.
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By JUSTIN LOWE, The Hollywood Reporter, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Movies
Wed, 10/22/2014 - 10:15am
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