John Wick's most memorable fights ranked
, battle royale ascents of a Parisian staircase—one comprised of over 200 steps and seemingly that many bad guys that pop out of corners and shadows like mini-bosses in a side-scroll video game.
Reeves sells the painful determination of this sequence by sweating through each stair he climbs or mini victory he earns—which brings the audience to the edge of their seats as he struggles to reach the top and make it to his fate-sealing duel in time. But the sequence takes a “holy shit!” turn with a gut punch of a setback that made the audience at my screening groan in solidarity with our hero: Once John reaches the concrete summit of this bloody incline, a heavy knocks him back down. All.
Panting and sweaty, battered and running low on ammo, Wick seems legit finished. But then his frenemy Caine shows up and inspires the assassin to get up, Rocky Balboa-style, and finish what he started. Everything the franchise embraces and respects in regards to physical, in-camera stunt work, everything its titular hero stands for, is demonstrated in these two impressive, all-timer feats of action movie filmmaking.
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