So, I went to see John Wick on Saturday night. It’s really, really good – think Taken meets Grosse Point Blank meets how the hell is Keanu Reeves 50 years old? Excellent action sequences, excellent cast and at just 96 minutes a refreshingly short run-time, so it never outstays its welcome.
I would heartily commend the film to anyone who recognises that a henchman should never really be considered dead until they’ve been shot in the face.
However, perhaps more importantly, it also made excellent and unexpected use of a recent earworm: “Think” by Kaleida.
Having given this track heavy rotation over the last few weeks, it would never have crossed my mind that it might be successfully deployed as the backing music for a spectacularly violent nightclub slaughter, perpetrated by a vengeful Ted Theodore Logan. Nonetheless, there it was, and it fairly made the scene in my book.
If I can finally work out how to post links properly, I’ll include a youtube clip of said nightclub sequence. Obviously, it contains spoilers, although query whether anyone is going to go see this film without knowing that Reeves is playing a mad bastard killing machine who gets a bit » Continue Reading.