Chad Stahelski was Keanu Reeves's stunt double on The Matrix. He learned action filmmaking from people who learned it from John Woo. John Wick's gun-fu — the balletic combination of firearms and martial arts — is Woo's heroic bloodshed aesthetic applied to American action cinema. The melancholy assassin with a code is The Killer transplanted to New York. The original is one of the great action films ever made.
Films That Influenced John Wick
