Do you call it this generation's Die Hard or Hard Boiled?

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Disregarding what the "copied Collateral" poster says, comparing John Wick to those movies is hard because it is so different. Even Hard Boiled's praised shooting scenes feel less stylish and gritty compared to John Wick's. But you mean in terms of how good it is, right? Well, I hold JW in high regard so... sure. I mean other than The Raid 2 (which definitely belongs in this conversation), no other straight up action movie in this decade (so far) has packed a punch quite like John Wick.


You want something corny? You got it!

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Ah yes Hard Boiled what a classic!!!

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2 r-rated adult action classics like Hard Boiled and Die Hard?

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”

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I thought it felt a lot like a classic Hong Kong film... from the classic revenge plot to the weird af ending...

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No. This movie was entertaining but there was nothing groundbreaking about it.

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