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Film · Film · 2014

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John Wick

40Leave it.

Grief and craft. The code is real and it is still a code for killers. Do not move in.

Take controlThis scores 40. John Wick cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

A man loses his wife, then the last living gift she gave him, and the film is canny enough to start there. Grief is not mocked. What follows is a ballet of revenge so clean it starts to feel like a moral system. It is not. It is a closed world where everyone is already guilty enough to be a target, which is how the conscience is put to sleep.

Respect the craft the way you respect a dangerous tool. Do not respect the retirement plan. A man who can only express love by emptying a building was failed long before the last reel. If you need a picture of mourning that does not recruit you into a guild of killers, you already have a better one on this shelf.

Journal

Keep John Wick in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Spider-Man: No Way Home

51 instead of 40

Spider-Man: No Way Home is still a action film, and it scores 51 instead of 40. What you gain is stewardship: He leaves no girlfriend, no aunt, and no credit.

The eight

7
Industry
The craft of the work is undeniable. It is the craft of ending people.
4
Household
Love and a mourning are the spark. There is no house left, on purpose.
3
Piety
Ritual among assassins. A counterfeit church with gold coins.
6
Courage
He will walk through a building. The cause is a wound, then a habit.
2
Republic
A private underworld replaces the law and calls it honor.
3
Temperance
Revenge is a clean aesthetic. That cleanliness is the seduction.
5
Truth
Within the underworld, a word and a marker bind.
2
Stewardship
The future is more bodies. The dog was the last innocent thing.

Where to watch

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Armageddon

40Leave it.

A father and a crew. The world-ending is a fireworks show. The sacrifice is asserted, not earned.

Take controlThis scores 40. Armageddon cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Rough men who can do a physical thing are sent to do it in space because the polished men cannot. That is a populist feeling the film is not wrong to have. A father who has been absent tries to bless a marriage before he dies. Those are human scraps.

The scraps are tied to a firework. You will be told when to cry. You do not have to. If the house wants a film about a crew and a real cost, Private Ryan is the adult one and Apollo stories exist. This is a cheer. Leave it.

Journal

Keep Armageddon in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Doctor Strange

50 instead of 40

Doctor Strange is still a action film, and it scores 50 instead of 40. What you gain is temperance: His ego is the subject.