"are you ready for your lesson?"
jason bourne gulps...
a shiver runs down ethan hunt's spine...
john wick breaks into a sweat...
"yes, black dynamite," they all said at once.
went in with pretty low expectations only for ana de armas to dunk the ball and shatter the backboard. maintains the video-gamey-ness of john wick 4 while elaborating on the lore of 3 without feeling like pointless connective tissue, and the action is as divine as always. part of me wants to see what len wiseman's original cut looked like for this, but stahelski going in and reshooting this elevates what could've been two stars into the 3.5-4 range. half of…
i hate the overuse of the word "vibes" but i dont think there's another way to succinctly describe the effect this movie has on the human brain. endless cityscapes and infinite skyscrapers, coupled with a score far too ambient for a film of this stature. tailor-made to be viewed at three in the morning between a haze of being simultaneously sleepy and stoned to all hell. could be ~50 minutes long were it not paced so slowly, but i wouldn't have it any other way. shoulder-carrying an anti-aircraft gun is too clean.