It's hard to think about Keanu Reeves and quickly place him in a very specific actor stereotype. Whether due to his own decisions, driven by work demands or also, of course, by interpretive evolution, good old Keanu has always been reinventing himself at a forced pace.
Nothing remains of that boy whose photo was on the covers of the student folders of the 90s (Sorry, millennials and subsequent generations, you have no fucking idea what I'm talking about). Those days he was along with the ill-fated River Phoenix (yes, the brother of the now enormous Joaquin Phoenix), the right eye of any production company that wanted to succeed with its new movie for teenagers.
Keanu was there for some time thanks to a physiognomy of eternal youth that still blesses him today (Sorry, contemporary Johnny Deep, but the same cannot be said about you). The natural progression led him to blockbusters like Speed ​​and smokeable by anyone as a good entertainment film.
Finally, Keanu is today one of those actors capable of any mimicry exercise, from the hero of matrices that make up our world to the hitman John Wick, passing through characters in horror movies that surely scare more from the paradoxical friendly image of Reeves. …
Top 3 Recommended Keanu Reeves Movies
Matrix
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Any of the 4 installments of this film finds in Neo something more than a starring role. Because Keanu pulls from an innate gift, a hook that starts from his presence with a point of fragility, kindness and even coldness that even exposes him to unforeseeable risks in that world shaped like the matrix of a reality tailored to his alienated population.
And that Keanu may have been the fifth or sixth candidate who finally won the role. It is already known that the discards of others can be the most ill-advised. It feels Brad Pitt o Will Smith, but surely this movie could make you bigger. And thank you because in the end Keanu was perfect. And it is that, as in the matrix itself, nothing happens by chance...
In this duality between the true and the fantastic, Neo points to notions that make programming, metaphysics, and algorithms almost divine dictates. A hesitation that invites us to think of a world made to measure in a programming language. Something like God being a geek at the controls of the largest computer ever imagined and the devil acting as the nemesis of the human with tempting offers.
So Neo is that Jesus Christ in the middle of the desert whom the devil approaches to offer him riches, entire worlds at his feet, power and glory... But of course, Neo is an old-fashioned hero, more than the Neo of a possible current mythology it would be an Odysseus faced with his particular adventure to save the world from its own shadows.
Keanu walks in those over and over again, because each adventure is the most precise reset in search of the final delivery of the world towards the perfect algorithm like a black hole that sends its Smith agents and everything that it takes to devour the world in a Gargantua from where to recompose existence at the whim of the latest and darkest final programming.
replicas
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:In the skin of William Foster we find a Keanu Reeves who perfectly exploits that point of melancholic type necessary for the development of this plot. Because we are talking about unbearable absences, of irreparable losses. And of course, Keanu playing the biotech William Foster may have the key to reverse the fatality that a traffic accident produces in his life with the loss of his entire family...
Cloning with its perspective of judgment between the divine and the moral... William Foster is precisely working on an advanced project to regenerate life. And the occasion they paint her bald. It is either that or die of sadness and guilt. It's a matter of bringing all your latest technology knowledge to his own home. Chance, the spark towards the final discovery will do the rest.
Only in the Frankensteinian process to recover his wife and children is not entirely perfect. There is a missing link. And it is that her little daughter cannot be recovered because her brain damage prevents replacement in that growing tissue that recovers existence as a composition, a mosaic between cells and memories.
Of course, when everything seems to be fine with the minimum loss exceeded, the fringes are discovered. Both for his family in the absence of the young daughter and for the company from which he has extracted technology and tools. The frantic process accelerates with the consequent persecution and confrontation... Meanwhile you can't get up even to go to the bathroom...
John Wick
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:The John Wick universe expands everywhere in the form of new installments and series that take the avenger paradigm in this character to the extreme of an eye for an eye. It is no longer a question of the loss of his wife, which also functions as the essence of his animosity towards the world in general and towards fatality in particular, but also due to the fact that there is no evil that no matter how bad it comes (in the case of the movies and even in life itself), John ends up becoming an avenger, a slaughterer and even a hitman.
There was a time when they wanted to contain gratuitous violence in cinema and even the A-team or Terminator did not kill, but rather wounded their enemies. But nowadays no one denies violence as an argument and John Wick is that hero willing to do anything to avenge the slightest victim he finds.
But of course, John Wick can also suffer from violence made an inescapable reaction. The point is to enjoy blood as if we were vampires to see criminals of all stripes fall before an undaunted John Wick who only does what his body asks of him with the pusillanimous gesture of a runaway Chuck Norris. On this occasion, Keanu Reeves' measured inexpressiveness works perfectly well for a role that, as I say, does not stop bringing us new installments and series...
Other less recommended films by Keanu Reeves…
Speed
AVAILABLE ON ANY OF THESE PLATFORMS:Come on, it's okay to admit it. We've all seen Speed. Either in its premiere or in one of its three hundred and twenty-two reruns on general channels for Saturday siestas. The truth is that the mix of roles between Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves produces a strange effect in this movie.
At times you may think that one is overacting and the other is cold. Because the bus at full speed and without being able to stop or they all go up in the air has its disturbing point without a doubt. It just doesn't seem credible that a neurotic at the helm and a guy with horchata for blood can come out of the mess well. But whatever the mix works.
In the adventure that involves driving tirelessly with a bus that carries a bomb on its underside, everything happens with that frantic feeling that at the slightest thing things could go fatally wrong. And surely Tarantino He would have made sure that this happened in minute 2 of the movie, splattering the streets of Los Angeles with blood. But still you can't help but see those two on board the bus. He is a very clever cop who accesses the bus while it is moving in order to arrest the dangerous criminal with a fondness for bombs. She is the forced driver of the bus… What can go wrong?