Works its way into John's tamped down heart, and John is soon tooling around town in his vintage 1969 Mustang with Daisy happily perched

Helen, a sweet little beagle puppy she had selected for him to help him with his grieving process. Later, back at home, John receives a posthumous present from Marcus (Willem Dafoe) who seems to share a history of some sort with John. At her burial John meets quickly with a mysterious man named The wife died not from nefarious activities but from an unnamed disease. Since it's already apparent that John has some kind of shadowy past, it's interesting that it takes a while for the film to disclose that On a variety of snippets from his romantic life, and it soon enough becomes apparent that his wife Helen (Bridget Moynahan) has recentlyĭied. The film seems to portend bad news for John Wick (Keanu Reeves), and a quick quasi-montage which follows, while initially a bitĭiscombobulating in terms of figuring out the timeline, gives a brief overview of tragedy having recently visited John's life. Have a name, he also has a history, something that in turn informs this vicious, relentless account of revenge. That the Sergio Leone trilogy informed a lot of John Wick, but it's instructive to note that not only does the lead character in this film Writer Derek Kolstad and co-directors Chad Stahelski and (an uncredited) David Leitch have made no secret The Man With No Name simply acted (no pun intended), divorced from the exigencies of In that regard, the character portrayed by a steely eyed, clench jawed Clint Eastwood was an icon of whatever the Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, January 23, 2015Ī moniker, he was a walking enigma who was laconic to the point of seeming catatonic, with an abhorrence to divulging anything about hisĮqually mysterious past.

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