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  • Best Keanu Reeves Movies

    Keanu Reeves as John Wick in 'John Wick: Chapter 4.'
    Keanu Reeves as John Wick in ‘John Wick: Chapter 4.’ Photo Credit: Murray Close.

    Keanu Reeves is one of the most beloved actors of his generation!

    Reeves’ resume features classic movies like ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure,’ ‘Point Break,’ ‘Speed,’ ‘The Matrix’ series and the ‘John Wick’ franchise.

    His latest, ‘John Wick: Chapter 4,’ which is once again directed by Chad Stahelski, opens in theaters on March 24th.

    In honor of the new ‘Wick’ movie, Moviefone is counting down the 30 greatest Keanu Reeves movies of all time, including ‘John Wick: Chapter 4.’

    Let’s begin!

    30. ‘Knock Knock‘ (2015)

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    Lionsgate Premiere

    When a devoted husband and father (Reeves) is left home alone for the weekend, two stranded young women (Lorenza Izzo and Ana de Armas) unexpectedly knock on his door for help. What starts out as a kind gesture results in a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.

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    29. ‘The Matrix Resurrections‘ (2021)

    Plagued by strange memories, Neo’s (Reeves) life takes an unexpected turn when he finds himself back inside the Matrix.

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    28. ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still‘ (2008)

    A representative of an alien race that went through drastic evolution to survive its own climate change, Klaatu (Reeves) comes to Earth to assess whether humanity can prevent the environmental damage they have inflicted on their own planet. When barred from speaking to the United Nations, he decides humankind shall be exterminated so the planet can survive.

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    27. ‘Much Ado About Nothing‘ (1993)

    In this Shakespearean farce, Hero (Kate Beckinsale) and her groom-to-be, Claudio (Robert Sean Leonard), team up with Claudio’s commanding officer, Don Pedro (Denzel Washington), the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick (Kenneth Branagh) and Beatrice (Emma Thompson) — a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John (Reeves) plots to ruin the wedding.

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    26. ‘River’s Edge‘ (1987)

    A group of high-school friends (Reeves, Crispin Glover and Ione Skye Leitch) must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson (Daniel Roebuck), killed another, Jamie (Danyi Deats). Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to help him escape the consequences of his dreadful deed.

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    25. ‘Always Be My Maybe‘ (2019)

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    Netflix

    Reunited after 15 years, famous chef Sasha (Ali Wong) and hometown musician Marcus (Randall Park) feel the old sparks of attraction but struggle to adapt to each other’s worlds.

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    24. ‘The Matrix Reloaded‘ (2003)

    Six months after the events depicted in The Matrix, Neo (Reeves) has proved to be a good omen for the free humans, as more and more humans are being freed from the matrix and brought to Zion, the one and only stronghold of the Resistance. Neo himself has discovered his superpowers including super speed, ability to see the codes of the things inside the matrix and a certain degree of pre-cognition.

    But a nasty piece of news hits the human resistance: 250,000 machine sentinels are digging to Zion and would reach them in 72 hours. As Zion prepares for the ultimate war, Neo, Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) are advised by the Oracle (Gloria Foster) to find the Keymaker (Randall Duk Kim) who would help them reach the Source. Meanwhile Neo’s recurrent dreams depicting Trinity’s death have got him worried and as if it was not enough, Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) has somehow escaped deletion, has become more powerful than before and has fixed Neo as his next target.

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    23. ‘The Lake House‘ (2006)

    A lonely doctor (Sandra Bullock) who once occupied an unusual lakeside home begins exchanging love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect (Reeves). They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it’s too late.

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    22. ‘Something’s Gotta Give‘ (2003)

    Harry Sanborn (Jack Nicholson) is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin (Amanda Peet), his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin’s mother, Erica (Diane Keaton). Left in the care of Erica and his doctor (Reeves), a love triangle starts to take shape.

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    21. ‘Street Kings‘ (2008)

    Tom Ludlow (Reeves) is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he’s been a part of his entire career, ultimately leading him to question the loyalties of everyone around him.

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    20. ‘John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum‘ (2019)

    Keanu Reeves as John Wick in 'John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.'
    Keanu Reeves as John Wick in ‘John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum.’

    Super-assassin John Wick (Reeves) returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin’s guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world’s most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.

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    19. ‘DC League of Super-Pets‘ (2022)

    In “DC League of Super-Pets,” Krypto the Super-Dog (Dwayne Johnson) and Superman (John Krasinski) are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime in Metropolis side by side. When Superman, Batman (Reeves) and the rest of the Justice League are kidnapped, Krypto must convince a rag-tag shelter pack—Ace the hound (Kevin Hart), PB the potbellied pig (Vanessa Bayer), Merton the turtle (Natasha Lyonne) and Chip the squirrel (Diego Luna) to master their own newfound powers and help him rescue the superheroes.

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    18. ‘The Gift‘ (2000)

    Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett), young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others’ futures⁠—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client’s (Hilary Swank) violent husband (Reeves) and plagued by visions of a missing local woman (Katie Holmes), Annie finds herself pulled into a thicket of lies and deception in which her extraordinary gift may ultimately get her killed.

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    17. ‘Dangerous Liaisons‘ (1989)

    In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovich) to seduce the future wife (Michelle Pfeiffer) of another ex-lover (Reeves) of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as planned.

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    16. ‘The Matrix Revolutions‘ (2003)

    The human city of Zion defends itself against the massive invasion of the machines as Neo (Reeves) fights to end the war at another front while also opposing the rogue Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving).

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    15. ‘The Replacements‘ (2000)

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    Warner Bros. Pictures

    Maverick old-guard coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) is hired in the wake of a players’ strike to help the Washington Sentinels advance to the playoffs. But that impossible dream hinges on whether his replacements can hunker down and do the job. So, McGinty dusts off his secret dossier of ex-players who never got a chance (or screwed up the one they were given) and knits together a bad-dream team of guys who just may give the Sentinels their title shot.

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    14. ‘John Wick: Chapter 2‘ (2017)

    John Wick (Reeves) is forced out of retirement by a former associate looking to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to aid him, Wick travels to Rome and does battle against some of the world’s most dangerous killers.

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    13. ‘Parenthood‘ (1989)

    The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the ‘black sheep’ of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.

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    12. ‘The Devil’s Advocate‘ (1997)

    Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax (Reeves) accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss (Al Pacino) has something far more evil planned.

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    11. ‘The Neon Demon‘ (2016)

    When aspiring model Jesse (Elle Fanning) moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

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    10. ‘Toy Story 4‘ (2019)

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    Walt Disney Pictures

    Woody (Tom Hanks) has always been confident about his place in the world and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that’s Andy or Bonnie. But when Bonnie adds a reluctant new toy called “Forky” (Tony Hale) to her room, a road trip adventure alongside old and new friends will show Woody how big the world can be for a toy.

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    9. ‘My Own Private Idaho‘ (1991)

    In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” Mike Waters (River Phoenix) is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor (Reeves) is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike’s estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

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    8. ‘Man of Tai Chi‘ (2013)

    Directed by Reeves, in Beijing, a young martial artist’s (Tiger Chen) skill places him in position to experience opportunities and sacrifices.

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    7. ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure‘ (1989)

    Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Reeves) are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus (George Carlin), a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus’ time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.

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    6. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4‘ (2023)

    John Wick (Reeves) uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.

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    5. ‘Constantine‘ (2005)

    Keanu Reeves as John Constantine in 2005's 'Constantine.'
    Keanu Reeves as John Constantine in 2005’s ‘Constantine.’

    John Constantine (Reeves) has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman (Rachel Weisz) to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.

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    4. ‘Speed‘ (1994)

    Los Angeles SWAT cop Jack Traven (Reeves) is up against bomb expert Howard Payne (Dennis Hopper), who’s after major ransom money. First it’s a rigged elevator in a very tall building. Then it’s a rigged bus–if it slows, it will blow, bad enough any day, but a nightmare in LA traffic. And that’s still not the end.

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    3. ‘Point Break‘ (1991)

    In Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers who call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. Believing that the members of the gang could be surfers, the F.B.I. sends young agent Johnny Utah (Reeves) to the beach undercover to mix with the surfers and gather information.

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    2. ‘John Wick‘ (2014)

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

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    1. ‘The Matrix‘ (1999)

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    Warner Bros.

    Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.

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  • Akiva Goldsman Talks ‘Constantine’ and ‘I Am Legend’ Sequels

    Keanu Reeves as John Constantine in 2005's 'Constantine.'
    Keanu Reeves as John Constantine in 2005’s ‘Constantine.’

    Business-heavy stories about producers renewing the deals with studios don’t usually offer up too many interesting nuggets of news. But when that filmmaker is Akiva Goldsman, and he’s involved with two big franchises in ‘Constantine’ and ‘I Am Legend’––and is happy to talk about them––that’s a different situation.

    So with Goldsman’s Weed Road company returning to Warner Bros. (which is almost news in itself given the company’s recent round of cost-cutting and tax write-offs), there is an update on both the comic book adaptation starring Keanu Reeves and the post-apocalyptic thriller that, seemingly against the odds given how the first movie ended, appears set to return Will Smith to screens.

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    Related Article: Keanu Reeves Back For a ‘Constantine’ Sequel

    What’s the latest on ‘Constantine’s sequel?

    2005’s ‘Constantine’ brought the character first created by Alan Moore, Stephen R. Bissette, Rick Veitch, and John Totleben (and developed by Garth Ennis and Jamie Delano’s ‘Hellblazer’ comics) to screens.

    He’s as supernatural exorcist and demonologist, and something of a detective, though his personal life is a mess and his personal grooming leaves something to be desired.

    In the movie, Reeves’ Constantine is approached by Detective Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz) who needs his help to prove that her twin sister Isabel’s (also Weisz) death was not a suicide. As he looks into Isabel’s death, he realizes demons are trying to break through to the human world, and his battles lead him into the middle of a conflict between the Angel Gabriel (Tilda Swinton) and Satan (Peter Stomare).

    The sequel, which Goldsman is writing and producing (alongside J.J. Abrams), has Reeves back to star and Francis Lawrence once again directing. It was announced last year.

    Says Goldman to Deadline about the project,

    “This is a credit to Keanu, who endlessly has said, ‘this is the character I want to return to.’ Finally, he said it enough times that it stuck. The character is very much Keanu and the way he and Francis saw the world of good and evil, and the wonderful and authentic noir where there is a world behind the world of good and evil coexist with our world right up close. Beyond that, we are still discovering it as I am writing the script.”

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    What’s new with the ‘I Am Legend’ sequel?

    ‘I Am Legend,’ meanwhile, was a 2007 horror action thriller, coincidentally also directed by Lawrence. It adapted Richard Matheson’s much-praised 1954 novel, which posited a world where a devastating virus had wiped out almost all of humanity and turned the rest into vampire-like mutants who roam the world looking for victims.

    Robert Neville, the focus of the story, goes on a mission to find the scientific basis for the pandemic that caused all this, and chronicles his increasingly stressed encounters with his fellow former humans.

    In the movie, Smith plays Neville, who is an army virologist surviving in a ruined New York and looking to find a cure for the virus that caused all the trouble––which was originally a mutated measles strain intended to cure cancer. His wife and daughter died in a helicopter crash as they attempted to flee a quarantine of Manhattan and Neville has company in the shape of his German Shepherd dog Sam.

    We learned about a potential sequel nearly a year ago, but at that point speculated that it seemed unlikely to star Smith since (spoiler alert) his character appeared to die at the end, heroically sacrificing his life after finally finding a cure so other survivors (Alice Braga’s Anna and her son, Ethan, played by Charlie Tahan) may live.

    Yet that was in the cinematic cut––a later home entertainment release has an alternate where In the ending that wasn’t included in the theatrical cut, the zombies leave Smith’s Neville alone once he returns the body he was testing the cure on back to them. Smith, Anna and Ethan travel to Vermont to spread the cure.

    Goldsman, who is also writing that movie (Lawrence is not attached to direct, at least not yet), didn’t specify exactly how Smith’s character story would continue, nor did he offer up any details as to how fellow attached star Michael B. Jordan might fit in.

    Goldsman had this to say about the movie,

    “This will start a few decades later than the first. “I’m obsessed with ‘The Last of Us,’ where we see the world just post-apocalypse but also after a 20-30-year lapse. You see how the earth reclaims the world, and there’s something beautiful in the question of, as man steps away from being the primary tenant, what happens? That will be especially visual in New York. I don’t know if they’ll climb up to the empire state building, but the possibilities are endless. We trace back to the original Matheson book, and the alternate ending as opposed to the released ending in the original film. What Matheson was talking about was that man’s time on the planet as the dominant species had come to an end. That’s a really interesting thing we’re going to get to explore. There will be a little more fidelity to the original text.”

    It’s perhaps no surprise that the huge HBO Max hit video game adaptation would be a touchstone, even though the new ‘Legend’ has been in development long before it infected the pop cultural consciousness.

    We’ll have to wait and see what exactly happens with the ‘Legend’ follow-up. Given how busy Goldsman is (he also juggles time spent working on ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ series for Paramount+ and a wealth of other projects in development), it could be a while before either movie is ready to go before cameras. We’d predict that the ‘Constantine’ follow-up would be first.

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    Will Smith in 2007’s ‘I Am Legend.’

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  • Keanu Reeves Back For a ‘Constantine’ Sequel

    Keanu Reeves as John Constantine in 2005's 'Constantine.'
    Keanu Reeves as John Constantine in 2005’s ‘Constantine.’

    Warner Bros. Discovery might still be trying to figure out its DC Comics future, with recent disappointments including the shelving of ‘Batgirl’ and the difficulty in finding a guiding hand who could conceivably generate the same level of success as Marvel’s Kevin Feige has for Disney.

    Yet in terms of pleasing fans, the company certainly took a positive step forward today, with word via Deadline that it is developing a sequel to 2005 Keanu Reeves-starring movie ‘Constantine’.

    Comic book history briefing time! The character of chain-smoking (and cancer-ridden) Liverpool native John Constantine first appeared in ‘Swamp Thing #37’, published in June 1985, created by Alan Moore, Stephen R. Bissette, Rick Veitch, and John Totleben, and came to prominence in Garth Ennis and Jamie Delano’s ‘Hellblazer’ comics.

    He’s as supernatural exorcist and demonologist, and something of a detective, though his personal life is a mess and his personal grooming leaves something to be desired.

    In the movie, Reeves’ Constantine is approached by Detective Angela Dodson (Rachel Weisz) who needs his help to prove that her twin sister Isabel’s (also Weisz) death was not a suicide.

    The dead woman was a devout Catholic and Angela refuses to accept she would have taken her own life. John takes the case partly because he’s looking to make amends – having been to hell, he knows what awaits him when he dies, and thanks to his habits and health issues, he knows that’s coming sooner than he’d like.

    Keanu Reeves as John Constantine in 2005's 'Constantine.'
    Keanu Reeves as John Constantine in 2005’s ‘Constantine.’

    As he looks into Isabel’s death, he realizes demons are trying to break through to the human world, and his battles lead him into the middle of a conflict between the Angel Gabriel (Tilda Swinton) and Satan (Peter Stomare).

    Though the movie wasn’t the biggest hit with critics, it did make more than $200 million at the box office and fans have hoped for a return ever since.

    Now Reeves is officially back, and Francis Lawrence, who made his directorial debut with the previous film, is back to call the shots again.

    Different this time around is the writer, as Akiva Goldsman is on for script duty this time – and while he’s been doing solid work with the ‘Star Trek’ franchise, there will be concern that not every movie screenplay has been involved with has worked (yes, ‘Jonah Hex’, we’re looking at you).

    The story this time is a mystery, but we can expect Constantine to be dealing with supernatural threats in his own particular way, with J.J. Abrams producing via his Bad Robot company.

    Outside of that movie adaptation, Constantine the character has appeared in different forms, including a version played by Matt Ryan, who first appeared in his own short-lived show and has then popped up on various series on the CW network.

    Then there’s Johanna Constantine (Jenna Coleman), taken from Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ comics, who appears in the Netflix adaptation (while rights issues mean John didn’t show up).

    Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death and Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine in Netflix's 'The Sandman.'
    (L to R) Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Death and Jenna Coleman as Johanna Constantine in Netflix’s ‘The Sandman.’

    It’s still early days for the new movie, so no release date is in place yet.

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