A Rain book would just have been ironic and funny, but Shibumi is totally an inside joke for...us!

http://dailycollegian.com/2014/11/06/recent-action-flicks-pale-in-comparison-to-john-wick/
Now we all know who had a hand in choosing the music in the film, don't we?

http://www.thestar.com.my/Lifestyle/Entertainment/Movies/News/2014/11/06/Keanu-Reeves-is-back-in-action-and-were-deliriously-happy/

looking forward to read your opinion about the movie :)

yessss. Keanu's at his best when everything is silent. His weak point tends to be dialogue, but without that - as in those opening scenes - he's awesome.

But what is my favorite thing about John Wick beyond all these other things I love it for: It is pretty much among the cleanest action movie I have seen in a long time, even more than The Raid 2 which is certainly the best action movie of the year so far. See, the world John lives in is certainly depressing and the movie does enough to express that depression in its visual language, a nihilistic fadedness that I feel is almost certainly done in post-production rather than filtering. But it's not grungy or gritty... it's very lavish, it's almost looking like luxury and would trick you into feeling that if Reeves wasn't just always so sobering, so visually lost in his role as a human being. It would be a James Bond film if Reeves didn't give John Wick the character it has as a film (and I would never say Keanu Reeves gives a movie something if he didn't). It's not brutal or banging, but it's still very very intense as an action film. It's sleek. But it's still affrontive.

And there's something especially psychologically off about that sleekness. Like everything is as it should be exactly, except all the violence proves that to be wrong and Wick is still missing a wife and a puppy. But by god, is it all very affrontively elegant in the end.

I'm very very envious. I haven't seen a film capable of holding all of these dissonant parts together since Rian Johnson's Brick but John Wick pretty much is guilty as charged of pulling this. Leitch and Stahelski pull it off and tap into a storytelling style of visual psychology without even acknowledging it and utilize it in a genre that is usually just dismissed as bargain bin cheap thrills. Holy shit, John Wick is not even close to that way at all and I'm glad for it and I suggest anybody who likes comic books should watch it, because John Wick feels like one giant limited series from Vertigo Comics. Like 100 Bullets.

(fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony. While the tv series Constantine is going New 52 DC leagues and whatnot... Keanu is going Vertigo ;) )