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John Wick Chapter 1 Review

Ok guys... I joked about doing this review for a while... If you've ever read some of my other blogs called "Chart Chats" where I talk about the top 10 movie charts every once and a while there was an action movie I knew NOTHING about that would just stay on the charts for weeks and I would always joke that I was "thrilled" to see them on the charts again... which was very sarcastic because of corse I wasn't. But anyhow flash forward to a few years later, I have a new man in my life that had also never seen John Wick but he informed me that it was kind of about dogs. AND I LOVE DOGS and he does too so when we saw it was on sale on Target for Black Friday... we got all the movies! So I've seen them all now and I will have reviews on all of them!

So if you didn't know the plot of the movie John Wick is a retired assassin who retires to get married but then his wife unfortunately passes away from Cancer. Before she passes away she gets him a puppy so that he doesn't have to grieve alone. Then John Wick goes to a gas station and some guys ask him how much money he wants for his car. He says it's not for sale and drives back home. The guys find out where he lives and they break into his house, kill his dog and steal the car. The guys then goes to his father... who informs him who John Wick is and lets him know he should be afraid. And John Wick goes out of retirement to avenge his dog.

I would compare John Wick to another one of my favorite characters- Jesse Pinkman. Even though both are criminals- they're both people you root for and you want the best for them. Plus... is it really violence if it is against dog killers? It's totally justified.

This was also deeper than most action movies. In just a few scenes you learn more about who John Wick is than you do compared to some characters in several movies. The plot also keeps getting thicker towards the end of the movie and... just a lot happens and it's really really cool.

There are also SO MANY recognizable faces in this movie. Just about every character my boyfriend and I were like "Oh he was on Game of Thrones!" That girl is on Blue Bloods!" "There's the guy from the Mayhem Commercials!" "That's Willem Dafoe!" SO MANY people... and they were all really well cast.

I don't want to say too much more about this movie because I think it would ruin some of the things I love about it... but I will say that the villains of the movie were very dumb- but not so dumb that John Wick has an easy time. He's lost so much already and they've taken more from him and... it's just interesting to see how John Wick handles it.

The world is very interesting. For one John Wick lives in New Jersey and he pumps his own gas! Totally would never happen- it is illegal for us to pump our gas in the Garden State lol. But that's just the first difference- in the second and third movie... you get a lot more about the rest of the world.

Bye!
-Shannon

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