This is a very cool action film. There's not a lot of story - bad thing happens to man who turns out to be more than capable of exacting revenge. That's about it.
But there are so many clever details. The hotel which all assassins treat as a neutral zone. The specialist cleaning company that takes care of dead bodies. The payments in gold coins.
All these things have been seen before, but here they are so smoothly slotted together that it creates a wonderfully believable community of killers.
The only thing I didn't like was the "tie up anti-hero on a chair and talk at him for long enough for help to arrive" scene. Yuk. That one scene stands out like a sore thumb! The boss character that has been built to that point would have just shot John Wick in the head at the first opportunity... because he knew how dangerous he was.
One sloppy scene I can forgive, though.
Excellent. So good I watched it twice... on the same night.
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