Tag: Keanu Reeves

Plush Rush For the fourth time, the characters of Toy Story face abandonment. They end up lost, accidentally separated from their kid, and spend the rest of Toy Story …

Life is Suffering Most of John Wick 3 takes place in New York. The story travels of course; as seen here, Casablanca changed since Bogart snuffed out the Nazis. …

Do Not Replicate The opening scene of Replicas sees scientist Keanu Reeves uploading the consciousness of a dead soldier into a robot. That’s Replicas at its most coherent. What …

Choo-choo Choose You The “revolution” of the title is choice. Free will, the thing that separates humans from programs. Set up in the first Matrix when Neo chose between …

Hail to the Geek The Matrix subverted a dull existence suggesting an ordinary, generic office worker is indeed something more. It was a middle American fantasy, rebellious, loud, gun-laced, …

Wick-ed A sluggish first half then blows up into a head-splattering sequel, not all that different than the first, but with plenty more of it. Assassin John Wick (Keanu …

Dog Days It’s far too easy to lose count of how many people John Wick kills in this sequel. Assume the number doubled from the first, possibly higher when …

This Wick is on fire “Get a crew.” “How many?” “How many do you have?” Smart movie audiences know whatever the number is, it will never be enough. John …

The 47 Ronin story is a daring Asian tale of revenge, bravery, and sacrifice, somehow tortured by Westernized Hollywood into this mythical escapism

Man of Tai Chi is a raw, even vintage kung fu escapade.

It is a physical impossibility to have enough liquid in your tear ducts to get through this movie in one sitting.

No one would actually write a movie about bank robbing surfers, would they?