Walter Chaw reviewed John Wick for Film Freak Central and gave it 3.5/4 stars. You can read the review here.
Mark Saldana reviewed John Wick for True View Review and gave the film 3.5/4 stars. The review is here.
James Marsh reviewed John Wick for Screen Daily.
Leitch and Stahelski are in their element when staging car chases, shootouts or fistfights, and the film is riddled with stylish set pieces that feel real and pulsate with an energy that makes the film’s relatively lowbrow ambitions impossible to dismiss. Jonathan Sela’s steely cinematography and a throbbing score from Tyler Bates and Joel J. Richard all add to an incredibly polished and entertaining package.
…John Wick is the very definition of a guilty pleasure, gleefully embracing the hard-boiled and absurdist idyoscrancies of its genre trappings and just oozes franchise potential. Whether that particular fate comes to fruition remains to be seen, but John Wick deserves to be Reeves’ most successful role since The Matrix, and every bit as synonymous with the increasingly adventurous performer.