{"id":12790,"date":"2018-10-21T20:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T01:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12790"},"modified":"2018-10-20T20:18:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T01:18:07","slug":"john-wick-2015-chad-stahelski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12790","title":{"rendered":"John Wick (2015, Chad Stahelski)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not trying to brag or nothin&#8217;, but I kept telling myself this movie felt like <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12231\">Atomic Blonde<\/a><\/em>, only to find out later that it was secretly codirected by that movie&#8217;s David Leitch, so I guess I know my Russian secret-agent hit-man action thriller directors.  I skipped this Keanu Reeves revenge flick when it came out, but I keep hearing good things about it and the sequel, so finally checked it out in between viewings of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12785\">American Made<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The late Michael Nyqvist with Dennis Duffy:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image18\/johnwick.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Keanu is sad after his girl&#8217;s death from illness, left only with the dog she left him, an awesome car, a weapons arsenal, and intense murder skills, so when the local crime lord&#8217;s son kills the dog and steals the car, Keanu will not be persuaded to stop killing people (this one is more revenge-driven than the previous movie I watched, which was simply called <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12788\">Revenge<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Fun movie, with some interesting comic-booky elements (a hitman society with a safe-zone hotel headquarters), with appearances by Willem Dafoe, John Leguizamo, <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12274\">Jerry Horne<\/a>, <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6555\">Lester Freamon and Cedric Daniels<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not trying to brag or nothin&#8217;, but I kept telling myself this movie felt like Atomic Blonde, only to find out later that it was secretly codirected by that movie&#8217;s David Leitch, so I guess I know my Russian secret-agent hit-man action thriller directors. I skipped this Keanu Reeves revenge flick when it came out, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,2484,2320,2485,45,183],"class_list":["post-12790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-chad-stahelski","tag-david-leitch","tag-keanu-reeves","tag-russia","tag-willem-dafoe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12833,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12790\/revisions\/12833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}