Fast chase: this movie saved Keanu Reeves

Janelle 2021-10-13 13:06:55

Keanu Reeves, a personality actor with a quarter of Chinese descent, is familiar with "The Matrix", and because of his black hair and blood, he makes Chinese audiences feel particularly close. It feels like he is still very young, but he was born in 1964 and unknowingly he has reached the year of knowing his destiny. As an actor, Reeves has been in bad fortune since 2008's "The Day the Earth Stood". He hadn't seen any action for a few years. In 2013, he rose up and made two films. One was the starring "Four "Seventeen Ronin", a film of "Tai Chi Man" as the director, still failed miserably, whether it was word of mouth or box office, it was a mess. But I don't want to be less than a year later. In 2014, this small production of "Quick Chase" was unexpectedly successful. It can be said that Reeves was directly pulled out of the quagmire and saved his precarious acting career.

At first glance, "Quick Chase" still looks like an old-school action movie. The story is not new, but it is Keanu Reeves's interpretation and exquisite editing that make the old tree develop new The flowers are dazzling. Moreover, the surprise it brings to people is the feeling of encountering "A History of Violence" at first.

When it comes to the story of "Quick Hunting", it is simply "a murder caused by a dog". A puppy was killed, and the crazy owner chased it all the way to New York, killing a whole family serially. According to statistics, this guy killed 95 people in the film, and most of them were headshots. form. From this look, you can roughly know that this film should be a bloody B-level film. Keanu Reeves is the crazy murderer among them. He either uses capable and concise means or uses rough and wild. The posture killed one after another gangsters who were able to use their tricks. People who like action movies, of course, can't miss such movies.

To be more specific, John Wick played by Keanu Reeves is a top killer. Now he has retired and is living a post-retirement life with his wife. This seems to be a reprint of "A History of Violence", and it's all about the story of a retired killer coming out of the rivers and lakes. In "Quick Hunting", it is said that John Wick and his wife have lived in a stable life for less than three years, and his wife passed away due to illness. In pain, Wick buried his wife, and could only depend on the dog left by his wife in order to comfort him. But in the midst of bad luck, bad luck can always find you. When Wick was driving his classic car on an outing, unfortunately, he was attracted by a gang of gangsters and planned to buy his car like a robbery at a low price. Wick refused the deal without hesitation, but the boys who refused to give up also held their own worth and refused to give up easily. They easily got Wick's address and attacked Wick at night. The bad boys not only robbed Wick’s car and wounded Wick, but also killed the dog left by his wife to Wick.

The mourning for his wife's death has not yet left, and the only memorial left by his wife was killed. This is equivalent to depriving Wick of his only nostalgia and concern for life. So he rose up to resist, knowing that he is a killer killer, and he has completed a series of impossible killer missions. Although he retired, the methods are still top-notch. Who made him retired for less than three years. We must know that the retired killer in "A History of Violence" has lived in seclusion for more than ten years, and can still do well.

When a top-notch killer wields the knife again, who else can withstand his sharp edge? However, the bad boy he encountered this time is also strong enough, because this kid is a black second-generation, his father is the boss of the New York gang, and he has a huge gang force. Only the second generation of Hei is so arrogant, daring to attack anyone casually. If you want to grab the car, you can grab the car, or the dog you want to kill. However, he ran into John Wick. With a heart of revenge, Wick doesn't care about the second generation of black, nor the boss of the black generation. When you meet the gods, kill the gods, and kill the Buddhas, you will kill whoever stands in the way.

Of course, there are still friendship entanglements in this process. William Dafoe also plays a killer, he is a friend of John Wick. When Wick started to go violently and hunt down the black second generation who caused trouble, the black generation hired the same master "William Dafoe", hoping that he could kill Wick. However, Dafoe helped his old friend Wick at a critical moment, which is equivalent to not only failing to complete the task, but also letting him go, and even assisting the assassination of the target to kill the employer. This is naturally intolerable for gang employers. Therefore, "Dafu" will inevitably die. However, for Wick, "Dafo" is his friend, and his death is also because of himself, so the task of revenge has also been upgraded, not only for his wife, not only for the memorial left by his wife, but also for himself friend. His path of chasing and killing is getting wider and wider, not only for the black second generation, but even the big brothers of the black generation will be killed. In a hundred, John Wick dealt with the power of the gang. This was another impossible task, but Wick still won in the end.

When someone asked if John Wick had come back again and started a killer business again. Wick didn't know how to answer, did he really make a comeback? It seemed that he was indeed killing people for a certain task, but the person who issued the task was himself. He followed his inner dignity and love before starting to kill. So, in essence, this is a war of black eating black dogs biting dogs, a fierce battle between a cold-blooded killer and the assassinated target. But because of love and righteousness, we feel that John Wick is doing what is right, and his murder is justified. And, even though Wick is a murderer, we still think of him as a hero. The killing of the hero is naturally painful and pleasant. Besides, it makes Keanu Reeves taller again.

"Quick Pursuit" thus constitutes a thrilling killing work, which seems effortless and extraordinarily delightful. This kind of work does not seem to require much acting skills, and Keanu Reeves's expression has not changed much, but all his actions seem very reasonable, and I think it should be like this. It seems that John Wick is Keanu Reeves, the two are perfectly combined, just right to save Keanu Reeves as an actor, leaving behind a classic.

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John Wick quotes

  • Harry: Do I know you?

    John Wick: I'm thinking so.

    Harry: Hey, John.

    John Wick: Hey, Harry.

    Harry: Everything all right?

    John Wick: Yeah. Everything's fine.

    Harry: I'll leave you to it, then.

    John Wick: Hey, Harry? You keen on earning a coin? Babysitting the sleeping one?

    Harry: Catch and release?

    John Wick: Catch and release.

  • Iosef Tarasov: Nice ride. Mustang, Boss 429. She a 70?

    John Wick: 69.

    Iosef Tarasov: Beautiful car.

    John Wick: Thanks.

    Iosef Tarasov: How much?

    John Wick: Excuse me?

    Iosef Tarasov: How much for the car?

    John Wick: She's not for sale.

    [John gets in the car; Iosef comes to the window and starts petting John's dog]

    Iosef Tarasov: Oh, I love dogs.

    [in Russian]

    Iosef Tarasov: Everything's got a price, bitch.

    John Wick: [also in Russian] Not this bitch.