SPOTLIGHT: Keanu Reeves essential movies
Keanu Reeves left a permanent mark not only on movie culture throughout the years, but he did it in general popular culture of today as well, and we hope, not only today but many years to come. Humble, smart and a gentle man, this loveable actor had a lot of roles over the years, these are the ones he will be most remembered for and an essential watch for anyone wanting to get more Keanu Reeves in their lives.
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- DirectorLana WachowskiLilly WachowskiStarsKeanu ReevesLaurence FishburneCarrie-Anne MossWhen a beautiful stranger leads computer hacker Neo to a forbidding underworld, he discovers the shocking truth--the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.Movie that changed film industry in a lot of ways, starting with VFX, but there's so much more to it.
- DirectorStephen HerekStarsKeanu ReevesAlex WinterGeorge CarlinTwo rock-'n-rolling teens, on the verge of failing their class, set out on a quest to make the ultimate school history report after being presented with a time machine.To this day, one of the most fun time travel movies. It has it's flaws but plot and actors are making this work.
- DirectorKathryn BigelowStarsPatrick SwayzeKeanu ReevesGary BuseyAn F.B.I. Agent goes undercover to catch a gang of surfers who may be bank robbers.Patrick Swayze, already a legendary actor at the time as a villain to a newcomer Reeves. Cool movie.
- DirectorPeter HewittStarsKeanu ReevesAlex WinterWilliam SadlerA tyrant from the future creates evil android doubles of Bill and Ted and sends them back to eliminate the originals.Same as the first movie but somehow more. I know some people don't like this movie for some reason, but they come as a package deal for me.
- DirectorJan de BontStarsKeanu ReevesDennis HopperSandra BullockA young police officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.Peak youth Keanu Reeves movie. It doesn't stop, action, explosion, Sandra Bullock, freaking Billy Idol. They don't make movies like these anymore.
- DirectorRichard LinklaterStarsKeanu ReevesWinona RyderRobert Downey Jr.An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.A more somber and artistically engaging soft sci-fi movie from a pen of Phillip K. Dick.
- DirectorChad StahelskiStarsKeanu ReevesMichael NyqvistAlfie AllenAn ex-hitman comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters who killed his dog and stole his car.Movie that threw Keanu back into the spotlight these last few years by being a powerful, kinetic revenge movie. One of the best of it's kind in modern times that birthed a new subgenre of John Wick clones, sometimes made by the same people that made this movie.
- DirectorGus Van SantStarsRiver PhoenixKeanu ReevesJames RussoTwo best friends living on the streets of Portland as hustlers embark on a journey of self discovery and find their relationship stumbling along the way.One of those slice of life in this moment of time movies, with late River Phoenix. Didn't age well in some aspects but it holds up pretty good in others.
- DirectorRobert LongoStarsKeanu ReevesDolph LundgrenDina MeyerA data courier, literally carrying a data package inside his head, must deliver it before he dies from the burden or is killed by the Yakuza.While a kinda failed movie in it's own right and at that time, Johnny Mnemonic kinda holds up even today. It has a strong source material and a lot of today's cyberpunk classic elements.
- DirectorThom EberhardtStarsKeanu ReevesLori LoughlinTheresa SaldanaA popular beauty surprisingly asks a nerd to take her to the prom. He wakes up hours later in a sleazy alley. She's missing but he remembers nothing about it.Young Keanu, fun 80s movie about when you go into the wrong part of town.
- DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsGary OldmanWinona RyderAnthony HopkinsThe centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.For better or for worse, Dracula from F.F. Coppola will be remembered as one of those great movies that most people like them but kinda have some major flaws. One of them being Keanu Reeves being grossly miscast. But it's a modern classic.
- DirectorFrancis LawrenceStarsKeanu ReevesRachel WeiszDjimon HounsouSupernatural exorcist and demonologist John Constantine helps a policewoman prove her sister's death was not a suicide, but something more.While we can agree that Keanu Reeves looks and acts nothing like Constantine, and is probably one of those movies that was made exclusively by producers that know nothing or care about source material, we can mostly agree that Keanu just being in it made this movie somehow work.
- DirectorTaylor HackfordStarsKeanu ReevesAl PacinoCharlize TheronAn exceptionally-adept Florida lawyer is offered a job at a high-end New York City law firm with a high-end boss--the biggest opportunity of his career to date.Not the most memorable movie these days, still an interesting change of pace for Reeves and in company of all time great Al Pacino and up and coming Charlize Theron.
- DirectorAlejandro AgrestiStarsKeanu ReevesSandra BullockChristopher PlummerA lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside house begins to exchange love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect. They must try to unravel the mystery behind their extraordinary romance before it's too late.I get, it's a romantic movie, but it has twist and Sandra Bullock and it's important to see Keanu Reeves in a movie like this.
- DirectorDavid AyerStarsKeanu ReevesForest WhitakerHugh LaurieAn undercover cop, disillusioned by the death of his wife, is implicated in the murder of an officer and must struggle to clear himself.David Ayer is known for making one kind of movie over and over. This might be one of the better versions of that movie. Also has some great star power.