The Best Keanu Reeves Movies Of All Time, Ranked

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Keanu Reeves has been a star for one thing like 30 years now. In that point, he’s appeared in lots of, many motion pictures. He’s been in motion motion pictures and comedies and dramas. He’s traveled by means of time and thru planes of actuality and thru Los Angeles on a dashing bus. He’s killed Russian mobsters and infiltrated surf-based prison organizations and battled demons from hell who’re often performed by Al Pacino. The man has had a full profession to date and, with the ascendance of the John Wick franchise, it reveals no signal of slowing down any time quickly.

What we’ve completed right here is have a look again at this profession of his. Three of our Keanu-loving staffers — Brian Grubb, Josh Kurp, and Kimberly Ricci — dug by means of his filmography to establish his 15 finest movies after which tried to rank these choices. It bought ugly. No one killed a canine, although. Thank God. We all know the way that ends.

15. The Replacements

The Replacements is a kind of motion pictures that I by no means thought-about seeing within the theater for even one second however have now one way or the other seen over 10 instances on cable anyway. It’s an virtually good “Saturday afternoon on TBS movie,” which was a vital style earlier than Netflix existed and remains to be surprisingly resilient in 2019. Keanu performs Shane Falco, a former star school quarterback whose skilled prospects went within the tank after a disastrous efficiency in a bowl recreation however will get a second probability when a piece stoppage opens up some roster spots. For these conserving rating, that is the second film wherein Keanu performs a former star school quarterback, with the opposite being Johnny Utah in Point Break. Both performed at Ohio State. This is fascinating to me on quite a few ranges. It’s enjoyable to fake all of his characters performed quarterback for Ohio State. Do it whilst you’re studying this listing.

Anyway, The Replacements is completely fantastic and really rewatchable and you may do worse on a boring Saturday afternoon. — Brian Grubb

14. A Scanner Darkly

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The creative visuals of this movie launched the general public at massive to the magic of rotoscoping. Yet that controversial gimmick — er, make that Richard Linklater’s experimental methods whereas adapting the Philip Okay. Dick novel — is barely a part of the attraction. There’s that fascinating “vague blur” on the heart of this existentially obsessed story, the place identities morph and take Keanu into the void. As an actor, he’s recreation as hell to take the dive into drug dependancy and misplaced identification, and the surreal and paranoid vibe of this movie is additional fed by Keanu’s voice pulsating by means of painted animation that feels virtually like a masks over actuality. The total impact fuels a way of paranoia that’s bolstered by an unbeatable supporting forged (Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., and Woody Harrelson), all of which ends up in presumably probably the most devoted adaptation of a Philip Okay. Dick novel in cinematic historical past. It’s simply plain trippy, man, and this film’s a great one to revisit if one must be reminded that Keanu’s not merely a dude or a big-budget motion star, though he’s positively each these issues, too. — Kimberly Ricci

13. Parenthood

Parenthood might be higher identified at this level for the TV collection that ran on NBC for six seasons. But don’t sleep on the film: it’s a captivating ensemble comedy starring Steve Martin, Mary Steenburgen, Rick Moranis, Tom Hulce, Dianne Wiest, Martha Plimpton, Jason Robards, a younger Joaquin Phoenix… the forged is so loaded that Keanu Reeves (who was coming off Dangerous Liaisons and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure) is billed fifth on the poster. Fifth! He had an uphill climb to face out within the Ron Howard-directed film, however he succeeded by wanting like each dad or mum’s worst nightmare — I might be uneasy if my daughter or son dated somebody with that haircut — whereas showcasing beneath-the-surface depth. As Julie’s racecar-driving husband Tod, he tells Mrs. Buchman that you may purchase a license…