There was no way to know it when the film arrived 11 years ago, but Keanu Reeves' comeback vehicle John Wick changed the course of action movies forever. While Reeves met with huge success during the 2000s thanks to The Matrix franchise and Something's Gotta Give , his star began to decline toward the end of the decade.

Action movies in the 2010s started on a bad note, too. The genre had largely stagnated with PG-13 actioners that used the Bourne movies or Taken for inspiration. There were some exceptions (like The Raid ), but action cinema was in dire need of a kickstart when John Wick debuted on October 24, 2014 .

The film's simple setup casts Reeves as a borderline supernatural assassin, who unretires when a Russian gangster robs him and kills his dog. The trail

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