Integrity Score 975
No Records Found
No Records Found
I agree! What a beautiful movie! 😱
One of the biggest and most acclaimed action films, the John Wick series stands as a prime example for other action directors to emulate in how to get their action sequences just right, especially those driven by martial arts.
Not that we haven’t seen this in other movies before, but in recent times John Wick has elevated that standard immensely. What makes the series so different from your standard punch and shoot ‘em up formulaic movies is the choreography.
The choreography of the martial arts sequences in John Wick is so smooth, stable, elegant and badass that it just leaves any of that standard comic book drivel in the trash, especially MCU and its more recent garbage. That is primarily due to the film’s focus on practical effects instead of the massive overuse of CGI, and stable camera.
Keanu Reeves does his own stunt-work while under the guidance of stunt man and director Chad Stahelski, the movies have a unique angle where they remain tightly focused on being grounded in reality while still maintaining a great balance of theatricality and flashiness just making the whole affair a massive adrenaline boost.
Fluidity in fights is an essential component as the series combines a number of martial arts disciplines ranging from Tae Kwon Do, Jujitsu and Kung Fu with gunfighting.
The whole aesthetic of a tightly choreographed fight scene with no shaky cams makes the whole scene just that much more engaging, because not only is the scene not rooted in realism but it also has a level of emotional weight.
Every punch, kick and shot to the face is delivered with such ferocity that you can feel both the quick predator instincts of a legendary assassin who is all shoot first and ask questions later, and the sharpness behind that shot. The gun shot actually tears the flesh, the kick is really sharp and the punch is gut wrenchingly painful and everybody is bound to be a corpse sooner or later.