John Wick certainly feels like a video game. Its “gun-fu” action sequences owe a lot to The Matrix‘s blend of Hong Kong cinema styles (gangsters in suits with guns + Yuen Wo-Ping wire work = The Matrix), but the sheer breadth and repetitiveness of both films’ gun scenes recall video games more than anything else: it’s a lot of BANG! BANG! BANGBANGBANGBANG! BANG!, albeit exceptionally well designed as such.
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