For the first few minutes of this film, it’s the touching story of John (Keanu Reeves), a recently widowed man who finds joy and a reason to keep living in the form of a dog that his late wife left for him to take care of.
Then a wannabe Russian gangster, Iosef Tarasov (Alfie Allen), makes the monumental error of murdering John’s dog, stealing his car and leaving John for dead. That’s when this movie becomes John Wick, the riveting revenge action thriller that revitalized the genre. Everyone on the criminal underworld knows John by his reputation for killing, and they’re about to learn why it doesn’t pay to anger him.
John Wick is streaming on Hulu.
