2014 · action · thriller
John Wick
Directed by Chad Stahelski, David Leitch1h 41m2014
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
Our read: John Wick (2014) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
John Wick counts for a challenge
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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