JOHN WICK (2014) | MOVIE REACTION | FIRST TIME WATCHING 

Yes! After I watched this I read up on him. He had so many tragedies in his life. He seems so generous and respectful. Anyone who worked with him before just loves and respects him so much it seems

@@PopcornInBed Yes so many tragedies in his life. So sad. It's one on my bucket list to work with him one day. There's a video of him you'll be able to find on RU-vid, he's riding a subway and he gives up his seat to fellow passenger.

@@PopcornInBed Please please please watch the Matrix. ♥️♥️♥️

I remember a "The Truth About Celebrities" videos was deflating the "nice" public image of many famous people, and when it got to Keanu Reeves, it said "He's actually even nicer!"

@87godzilla That is a great movie as well. Please tell me what you think of my list for her and maybe we can both suggest them.

hahah exactly what I thought at that statement!

I don't think my eyebrows could have gone up any higher when she said this LOL

Having watched her Band of Brothers reactions, when the title popped up, I was like "Really?" Haven't even started the video.

More like a long trilogy. lol

it's not just fighting, it's art

Reminds me of the line in Wick 3 where he says "you didn't have to kill him" and she says "he killed my dog" and then wick says "I get it" The dog and his car were the whole setup for first 2 movies then the repercussions of his actions in those to the 3rd and 4th. Still a great series. Hoping the 4th delivers without going too "wire fu"

Fun Fact: That actor who killed the puppy felt so terrible doing that scene he's been playing with him for hours

🤣🤣👊

People are very attached to their dogs, loving them as much as would a child. There's a number of movies in which the the death of a dog spurs the hero to finally abandon all restraint and punish the villain. In building up the evilness of a villain in a story, it's terrible that they do horrible, illegal crimes, but the final straw that really condemns them to their fate is harming an innocent. Even among the roughest of bad guys, there's still an understood idea that you don't harm defenseless innocents like the old, the frail, women, children, and especially dogs who in their good natured innocence would be friendly to anyone. Any criminal who shows himself willing to harm defenseless innocents as marked himself deserving of death. In the movie "Open Range" the character played by Robert Duvall is an old, stoic, tough cowboy who has probably seen and endured near everything imaginable. When he's reciting all of the evil acts the villain has committed, it's not until the end of the list, when he says the villain "killed our dog" that his voice cracks, he gets choked up, and is struggling to hold his emotions in check and not cry.

I don't think any of us did.

MY WIFE WILL NEVER WATCH JW1 EVER AGAIN 😮

@@Kazpper88Heck I was a guy in his 30s who grew up on movies like this and ended up gasping and crying. It took me 30 minutes to recover to even contemplate playing some more. Puppy love forever. Now I have to go hug mine to get over that damn scene again.

@El Vato I mean. It is a pretty highly regarded series.... not like its anywhere near bottom of the barrel.

@El Vato There are absolutely NOT a lot of better action movies. If she don't want to watch action, then don't. Also she said "her husband" lol, not "people" thought she'd like it.

Great comment. So tired of the mindless vi o le nce. Lowest common denominator entertainment!

@El Vato John Wick is one of *THE BEST* action movies out there. And that's not an opinion. It's a *FACT. * In truth, I wasnt interested in the movie at first. But then it *IT WON ME OVER!*

@El Vato Agreed! One thing in a BOB, mini series. An entirely different ballgame in John Wick. You will lose most women as soon as an animal is hurt. I don’t blame them either! What would you like her to see? For me: Inside Man, The Illusionist & Unbroken.

I laughed at that too. "Uh..."

was thinking the same exact thing

After she said that, I thought to myself, "this is gonna be a loooong movie" LOL

Hahaha I was like “oh dear...”

Yep... wrong movie.

Imagine her reaction if she watched John Wick 2. I wonder what she'd say about the house then.

Came here to say the exact same thing lol!!!!

I was literally about to say the same thing lol

John Wick is a person, who you would send to kill a Hitman

@@Je1imanek Which still makes him a hitman; but really THE hitman, since the Table have to send every other hitman (or woman) collectively to take him out. There's no singular hitman who can wipe out John Wick.

@@maxnorton1209 and even then, they _still_ can’t kill him!

No…he’s the Boogeyman.

Lmao

LOL. This reminds me of a skit of "The Sopranos on PAX TV". Taking out everything not deemed acceptable to PAX TV, the whole episode was whittled down to 30 seconds! LOL!

Meanwhile a russian guy is really angry for no specific reason.

Would’ve saved her a lot of anguish. But a very good quick review.

@@guittadabe5214 I lived in Pakistan as a kid and the cable was highly censored. BBC had some news story about beach baseball and since there were women in bikinis it was 30 minutes of the Shaheen TV logo.

Yup. 0 remorse for the kill count in this film 🤣.

@@EL-Steve i´m sorry for marcus dying...

It totally destroyed me when you saw the blood trail indicating how his puppy dragged its injured self over just to be with John as it died.

Biggest mistake they can make!

Oh

I'd generally consider Marcus an anti-hero as well, just not the main protagonist of this story. Might be others, but few were on-screen enough in this first installment to make the call...and I don't want to risk spoiling the later movies for anyone. Not that I give a shit about spoilers at all, let alone years later, but I can't stand whiny bastards who complain about spoilers.

Only the pupper is pure.

When I first saw this I said as much in a tweet @ some of the cast. John Leguizamo (Aurelio) replied, saying he was glad I enjoyed the film. Made my week lol

John Wick is not an anti-hero at all, he's a vilain, plain and simple. He's killing bad people but he's worst than them. We just like him because we see the movie from his perspective.

@@phellips10 You literally just defined "anti-hero". An antihero (sometimes spelled as anti-hero) or antiheroine is a main character in a story who lacks conventional heroic qualities and attributes, such as idealism, courage, and morality. Although antiheroes may sometimes perform actions that are morally correct, it is not always for the right reasons, often acting primarily out of self-interest or in ways that defy conventional ethical codes.

"Olympic level ballet of death" sounds like the classiest badass term. I love it and you are a genius!

@MidnightSt

Glad you made it through!! 😁❤ #2 and #3 are really good too :) Dont worry John has lots of friends ;)

@@michaelriddick7116 She should watch if she can handle the violence, the second where he killed150& third cranks it where he kills 199 people I counted them

And that, my friend, is excellent acting. That's all he needed to say, was "Oh."

That "Oh" was also an excellent way to show much he respected John skills. No flashbacks, talking about much people he killed, who trained him etc. - it does not matter. John is like a force of nature and that "oh" was one of ways to show this.

Not to worry, John knows a good clean-up crew. :-)

"Oooh! That on'es gonna leave a stain! ... Pew, pew!"

John likes dogs but really shouldn't own one

To be fair, none of the other characters did either. Outside of headwounds.

:)

"Im not going to get over that dog" (JWick 3) J. wick ; "I get it"

Beagles are special

At least she didn’t die alone 😢

Man, now both comments are making me cry 😢 😭

Im a 50 year old Marine, Biker, Welder, burly dude.... it's hard for me to watch this film because of this very detail... shit makes me cry everytime.

I'm pretty sure they snapped the dog's neck. I think they dragged it's dead body over to in front of his face so when he woke up, it would be the first thing he saw.

@@LordSevarg I think they kicked the dog. I don't think they would have dragged a 4 pound puppy lol

@@ramonjimenez5451 They definitely did.

It's a bagel puppy They would carry Not drag They didn't kill it out right

"...Oh." is one that always gets me.

@@Acorn_Anomaly 'nough said. This is the moment you knew....

Nah. The most spine chilling line in that movie is: "Oh"

RIP Micheal Nyqvist

Just like Dexter is a serial killer who kills serial killers, John Wick is a hitman who kills hitmen.

Her husband recommended it so blame it him

It was gonna be named something else but Keanu kept referring to it as John Wick in all of his interviews promoting the film and the guys in charge were like “free advertising” and changed the name of the film.

Yeah..LOL

Ballet is how Arnold Schwarzenegger set himself apart in the Mister Universe contest. It's now considered required training because of Arnold's standard.

Anyone can learn, given the proper access to knowledge, gear, and the will to train...nonstop.

No, he got programmed with kung fu and all that killing shit way back in the 90s.

@Krister L there’s a reason he was a millionaire before he was famous

MLP time! xD

friends are over rated

No, but close. In my opinion, the funniest was when Vigo's hit men forced their way into John Wick's house and the fighting started: "Oh no! It's his house! He's going to make a mess!"

She’s not wrong.

Mine is 6:39 when seeing Alfie Allen. “He has a very punchable face.”

And haha in another Chapter he shows us how to use a pencil to kill people...

To be honest, that line isn't that original. And something like that was shown earlier in movies ("The Dark Knight", anyone?). Don't get me wrong, I still like "John Wick" very much. But I don't get why the fans recite this line so often. It's not that great.

@@gabe6550 it’s mostly the delivery, and it cements the uniqueness of this movie building the protagonist instead of the antagonist. When he tells his son about the pencil fight he also is telling us

She's not wrong....

@@3Rayfire Yeah. Theon kinda does...

Also he has had a ton of tragedy in his life and he’s really inspirational.

He made some poor choices earlier on in terms of choosing movie roles that don't really play up to his strengths and accentuated his weakness (like trying to play super emotional characters or different accents), but eventually I think he started being very particular about what roles he played and we started seeing him accentuate his strengths because of that.

Agree.people will never put him as one the greatest actors but,I do to think more of the fans but even the critics have come to appreciate him & maybe daresay career.

That "woah dude" Johnathan next to Gary Oldman in Dracula wasn't really helping that perception lol...

don't forget the sheer effin' commitment ;)

Im guessing the rest of the film was VERY cathartic for you.

There is even a video from Taran Tactical that shows Keanu at the gun range with Halle Barry.

i was missing the "...completely understandable.." part

You forgot the 'he stole John Wick's car', but Vigo's reaction is beautiful once you have seen the movie once. You fully understand that Vigo is saying: 'Oh... Fuuuuuck we're soooo deeeaaaad. Why did I ever get my wife pregnant?' The emotion in that single 'Oh' is fully understandable with John Wick being who he is.

And did extensive firearms training. He’s a competition level shooter.

Don't forget he also killed everyone himself too

He's a retiree who has a puppy.

@@thedoneeye *had

A grieving widower with a set of special skills...

@Necramonium He's not really the boogeyman, He's the one you send to *Kill* the fookin Boogeyman!

@@3Rayfire Killer-killer

He's like the serene version of Nicolas Cage. Amazing in some Films and way too overly chill in others. (Both share amazing comic timing, tho') Dracula, however, is an unforgivably bad performance. But sweet Keanu is far from "average".

@@Cyborganna Bram Stoker's Dracula is the best Dracula movie ever, even with Keanu's horrible acting in it.

@@charminbaer2323 As a lover of the original unabridged Bram Stoker classic, it's the most hyperbolic sham ever committed to Film. So much is exaggerated for dramatic effect, often in a hypersexualized nature, while other parts are so wholly made up that it's laughable. But a visual feast, nonetheless. It is to the Bram/Drac' Legacy what the Hot Shots! Films are to the 'First Blood' action-thriller novel by David Morrell.

@@Cyborganna ah Hot Shots, classic masterpieces too!

@@Cyborganna to me it's just that bad directing can ruin good actors. They're both clearly good, if not great, but a bad director, or even a bad script, can really make any actor put on a horrible performance.

I’d like to imagine he told her it was the feel good comedy hit of the year it was released. 🤣

“It’s about a man and his dog”

My wife love trying to push bloody movies on her mom, who hates blood and gore.

i suspect many men's thinking behind this, in the case of this specific movie is "hey, this emotionally hit me. maybe she'll like it too, since she's always so emotional"

@@LordHoth_09 Hey! that's an old cult movie she could watch, "A Boy and HIs Dog"

ROTFL

He uses a pencil on occasion 🙂

What would you say….ya do here?

@@ps5392 Arrange for...dinner reservations...

He has a few haters purely because some people need to hate the nice people. But in terms of actually doing things to earn haters, yes he has done nothing to truly earn haters. The absolutely most beautiful soul of a man!!!

I hate that I can not shake his hand

Zach Braff hates him because he takes all the roles he'd want

I worry about his association with peta. I wish he knew better. Couldn't hate him though. He's still a wonderful person.

@@teslainvestah5003 Your username sounds like you invest in Tesla. Aren't you worried about their horribly polluting and environmentally unfriendly production? (Not to mention how they treat their workers which is stone-age compared to the proper car companies)

Keanu's weapons handling skills are amazing. He's now a serious 3 gun competitor in real life. His shooting style is more competition than combat, but the guy uses guns like he was born holding one.

Ff

and Gracie brothers for teaching him jujitsu

@@Mortablunt truth...

How did he know it was being put down? I heard the Family lost him and they were coming to pick him up the next day...

@@tapoemt3995 i mean pet stores would probably label the cages of animals that's gonna be put down, or something of the sort. It's not like they are just gonna keep such things in their mind and risk killing the wrong animal.

@@tapoemt3995 it was on the clipboard next to his cage. The dog was going to be euthanized.

@Jay Ryan but he can sure as shit shoot like that in real life.....

@Jay Ryan he can certainly shoot like in the movie. There are videos on RU-vid of him training. Real guns, live rounds.

Indeed, and I thought he was terrific in Ghost Protocol as well.

Yeah, he was also great in the swedish "Millennium"-trilogy (which first part is the original "Girl With The Dragon Tattoo"). That was his international breakthrough performance. It's strange though, that in almost all american movies that he was in, he portrayed villains, whereas in "Millennium" he was the hero. But I have to say, as a villain he was definitely better. In "John Wick" he was truly scary.

Shit I didn't even know he died. He was always good in everything. He knocked the role out of park here.

@@gabe6550 I adored him as Blomkvist. He and Noomi were leaps and bounds above Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara.

@@kissmy_butt1302 Lung cancer :( So I hope that Keanu will someday quit too.

RU-vid męskie granie

on Matrix Reloaded I think

There is an unspoken rule in Hollywood, don’t harm kids or animals. It tends to bum audiences out.

@@Psilocybin77 Sadness and then rage.

Another fantastic movie. Walken delivered that line perfectly.

I understood that refrence 😂😂

"He's an artist who only paints in red..."

Wait till she watch the sequels.

Between this and it's sequels, Mad Max: Fury Road and both The Raid movies, the 2010s were amazing for action fans. I couldn't pick which one of those I like best. And even some action movies that don't quite reach that level like Dredd, Mission Impossible Fallout or Kingsman: The Secret Service are really damn good.

Even funnier, the actor who played Iosef spent a lot of time spoiling Daisy because he felt so bad having to kill her. Sounds like a nice guy who does a good job playing a scudzball.

Cause he told him how many guys were in there (the pounds was the armed guy count)

@@mickeymacrae1589 When converted to kg from lbs, yes. But I think so long as Francis wasn't a dick about it, John probably would've let him go. He probably does his job well, but that's like a level 5 city guard/thug versus a level 20 assassin. You just nod and wave and walk the fuck away.

@@DoremiFasolatido1979 Francis, and Jimmy the cop are the smartest people in the movie.

Love that movie. More modern movie, Hitman's Bodyguard I also really enjoy.

That's a BRILLIANT suggestion.

Or "I love your work"...

Iv’e been trying to recommend John Cusack movies to other reactors. Grosse Point Blank. Better Off Dead and One Crazy Summer to set up Hot Tub Time Machine. Also 1408 for a thriller!!

"In Bruges" is... light... like a ton of steel vs a ton of feathers. Probably lots of heart too.

And dont think that the opponent is Off just only bec he is on the ground (so headshot him to be sure.)

Or as John Reacher says, get your retribution in first.

Yeah and everyone's coins arent worth the same tho

@@xerxeszero586 The coins aren't about monetary worth. They're a token that says "I'm in the club. I know the rules. I'm entitled to services." That's why you can spend a single coin on a drink, or to have a body disposed of. Like they say in JW3. It's a social contract.

I like to think that if a prequel is ever made, itll show a really young John Wick being taken under the wing of a not that much older Marcus, at the ballet school

@@chipdirk9278 ohhhhhh but they'd never do that tho sadly

If the people who have no issue with violence, murder, etc, respect/fear him...

I always find it amusing that most of the guys who are the best competitive shooters, and teach Special Forces and other elite forces shooting, and are peak athletes in their sports, all have either massive dad bod physiques, or look like a random grandpa.

Actual combat training before each movie shoot helps a lot.

@@rwxstudio7173 Keanu puts the work in for sure. He has been a practicing martial artist since training for the Matrix, so the firearms training is just another layer. I almost think he takes roles to get paid to learn new skills.

Nope. He was programmed way back in the 90s with all sorts of killing shit.

@@MandoWookie And he usually takes a pay cut as well so the money (and love) gets spread throughout the rest of the crew.

Hello Mrs Lisa how are you doing today.how is the weather going over there..

I have it ...I watch it every time I need to think more about my lil g

Was man on fire based on true events?

Also recommend Collateral.

@@shawnwallis7665 Based on a novel by the same name by AJ Quinnell

RIP Micke Nyqvist

No matter. Globalization allows for this in real life too so my suspension of disbelief isn't broken. [That's a bunch of words for "a Swedish man can know Russian and belong to a Russian family"]

The same way Deadpool was also a date movie with love and revenge.

This guy gets it.

Immediately

That was the point of killing the puppy. Would you have supported Wick if they didn’t kill the puppy??