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John Wick (2014)

★ 7.5 · 20,737 ratings on TMDB

Don't set him off.

John Wick poster★ 7.5

Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.

DirectorChad Stahelski
CastAdrianne Palicki, Alfie Allen, Bridget Moynahan, Daniel Bernhardt, Dean Winters, Keanu Reeves
GenresAction, Thriller
The emergence reading

John Wick keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

Ant-Man (2015)E8/E11Batman Begins (2005)E8/E11Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)E8/E11Fight Club (1999)E8/E11Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)E8/E11Iron Man 3 (2013)E8/E11

Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

World War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Action, ThrillerV for Vendetta (2006)E10/E12 · Action, ThrillerTenet (2020)E0/E14 · Action, ThrillerBlade II (2002)E4/E10 · Action, ThrillerThe Purge: Election Year (2016)E12 · Action, ThrillerBright (2017)E9/E10 · Action, Thriller

Same people

Shared director or cast.

John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)dir. Chad StahelskiJohn Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)dir. Chad StahelskiJohn Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)dir. Chad StahelskiThe Matrix (1999)Keanu ReevesFinding Nemo (2003)Willem DafoeSpider-Man: No Way Home (2021)Willem Dafoe