The 7 best movies with the unique Keanu Reeves that you should watch immediately

When Keanu Reeves started his acting career in 1980, he didn't seem like a future superstar and one of America's favorite actors. However, 40 years later, we can confidently say that Reeves has not only succeeded as an actor but has exceeded all the expectations of those who believed in his talent.

According to the Tom's Guide website, Reeves has made excellent use of his deceptively casual appearance and acting style in various genres, playing leading roles in the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. It also helped him that Keanu in real life looks like a nice, enthusiastic guy, with sincere respect for his audience and for each role he plays.

Here are 7 of Keanu Reeves' best films, in our opinion, in which he revealed himself as an actor.

John Wick

It all started with a modest action movie, and as a result, the grim killer John Wick became Reeves' calling card in the later stages of his career. Before the sequels expanded the mythology of the John Wick universe to include a complex underworld with rules and hierarchy, the first film was a simple revenge of a man who wants to get even for his dog and get his car back.

At the beginning of the movie, John is mourning his late wife, whose last gift to him was a cute little hound. He takes up arms after Russian gangsters kill the dog and steal his beloved Mustang.

As the story unfolds, director Chad Stahelski skillfully creates a chain of sequences that push Vic toward his final battle with a brutal criminal mastermind (Michael Nyqvist).

The Matrix

In the sci-fi action movie, Wachowski Reeves plays a humble hacker and potential savior of humanity - Neo. With the help of freedom fighters Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) and Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne), he reveals the secrets of a simulated world, the Matrix, where people play the role of slaves.

Having realized the true nature of the Matrix, Neo tries to bend it to his will, and Reeves conveys this transition - from a meek corporate employee to a powerful warrior - through simple tones of voice and body language.

"The Matrix is a milestone in special effects and action cinema, but it is also a life story about two people who fall in love while trying to save the world.

A Scanner Darkly

Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick influenced the creation of The Matrix, and Reeves returns to this source in the adaptation of one of Dick's most famous novels, directed by writer-director Richard Linklater. Linklater uses rotoscoping and an animation technique that includes drawing images of real characters to convey the triviality of Dick's drug story.

Reeves plays Bob Arctor, an undercover operative who has become completely immersed in the world created by substance D and has ceased to understand what is illusion and what is reality.

Dick's novels often question the nature of his characters' reality, and Linklater does the same in the film, changing visuals that constantly puzzle both Bob and the audience. Bob's identity seems unstable, in part due to the technology he uses to disguise his appearance, and Reeves keeps him tethered to his essence even as everything around him loses meaning and logic.

Speed

It was thanks to this blockbuster that Keanu Reeves cemented his status as the main action star. Screenwriter Graham Yost came up with one of the best conceptual plots in the history of this genre - a psychopathic terrorist bombing a Los Angeles city bus will explode if its speed drops below 50 miles per hour.

In Speed, Reeves plays police officer Jack Traven, who manages to get on the bus while it's moving, calms the passengers, and tries to find a solution to the deadly problem.

In addition, Jack also finds time to start a romantic relationship with Annie Porter (Sandra Bullock), who has to drive because the bus driver is injured.

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Bill and Ted are adorable slackers who dream of becoming rock musicians, but they can't play and are learning the hard way. They are not allowed to take the history exam. The condition for admission is to make a report on what a famous historical figure would see in the modern world. The boys are preparing a research paper, studying the opinions of store visitors when a phone booth falls on their heads.

In the distant future, a man named Rufus is preparing to travel back in time on a machine disguised as a telephone booth. The purpose of his trip is to meet two great musicians. If they fail the history exam, they will be expelled from college and music will cease to exist.

As a result, Bill and Ted embark on a journey through time, during which they meet famous personalities.

It's a simple comedy with a nice message and great acting by Reeves and Winter.

The Devil's Advocate

In this movie, Reeves had to compete with the powerful performance of the "late" Al Pacino, and it was not easy for him. And yet, the pair looks great in a sci-fi thriller where Al Pacino outshines everyone in the role of the real devil, lawyer John Milton, and Reeves balances him out as the ambitious but controversial young lawyer Kevin Lomax.

After winning a seemingly hopeless case, Kevin receives an offer to join Milton's influential firm in New York City, where his clients will be the most horrible people around. While Kevin gets lost in Milton's glamorous world, his wife Mary Ann (Charlize Theron) does her best to keep him from going to the dark side.

How to Marry a Bachelor (Destination Wedding)

Frank had long ago decided that he would not repeat the mistakes of other people, so he was not going to look for a wife, he was quite happy with his bachelor life. Lindsay is a woman who has had many unsuccessful romances and difficult breakups with men.

One day, Frank was invited to his wedding by his half-brother, whom Lindsay had dated in the past but still couldn't forget. They had a quarrel while boarding the plane, and when they were put in adjoining rooms and seated together at the table, they were ready to kill each other. But soon everything changed.

Writer-director Victor Levin focuses the plot on the two main characters, making them practically the only people on the screen and the only ones with any spoken lines.

Reeves and Ryder have a strong, sharp chemistry, and their characters' misanthropy is infectious. In general, the romance of two middle-aged people with negative relationship experiences who have discovered a spark of hope in their lives looks very impressive.