All that changed with the release of a little movie called "John Wick," one that brought some much-needed spark to its genre. Named after Reeves' taciturn lead, the original 2014 "John Wick" was on paper a relatively straightforward revenge story,

In the third film in the action franchise, Wick is on the run, having been declared “excommunicado” for breaking the High Table’s strict code of ethics. With no allies and no safe haven, he must fight his way to stay alive from the army of assassins quickly closing in.

Any action movie fans with a Netflix subscription who have not given the platform’s collection of Bollywood movies a try do not know what they are missing. Indian cinema is home to some of the genre’s most thrilling, but criminally overlooked in the U.S., releases, such as the Hindi-language 2025 movie, Deva.