Keanu Reeves has been making movies since 1985. That's a back catalogue of nearly 70 film roles, including several now-iconic performances which he has reprised on multiple occasions, like Neo, John Wick, and of course, Ted. But say you'd been living under a rock for the last three and a half decades, and were completely unfamiliar with Keanu's oeuvre. Where is the best place to start?
Luckily, the man himself came up with a "Keanu primer" during a recent profile in Esquire, prompted by journalist Ryan D'Agostino, and listed three movies which he believes work as a good introduction to him as an actor. (Surprisingly, he makes no mention of John Wick, the revenge movie which launched a new action franchise and showed the world he is still very much the stoic, soulful leading man he has always been.)
Firstly, Keanu chooses 1999's The Matrix, although he immediately cheats slightly here, clarifying that he is counting the entire trilogy as one piece, including The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions. The Matrix is definitely up there as one of his most famous movies: it set a standard for sci-fi and action cinema and spawned a million imitators over the following decade. In the interview, timed to promote the upcoming sequel The Matrix Resurrections, Keanu speaks about reading the script for the first Matrix movie, and what drew him to it.
"I just mainlined it," he says. "I thought"—Jimmy Cagney voice—"Well, this is up my alley! I’d had some of that thought training, reading about multi personality universes and perspectives. So when I came across the script, thinking about this reality and this matrix, and then anime agents and the idea of thought control or what’s reality, and virtual reality—yeah, I felt pretty at home in those."
He selects the 1997 horror film The Devil's Advocate as his next pick: a Faustian tale of good vs evil and nature vs nurture, it starred Keanu as Kevin Lomax, a wunderkind attorney with a flawless record of winning cases, who is invited to join a New York law firm owned by John Milton (Al Pacino), who may or not be Satan himself. As well as cementing Keanu's reputation as a serious actor, it also featured a breakout performance by Charlize Theron.
Finally, as a nod to his work in the action genre, Keanu chooses one of his earliest successes, 1991's Point Break, in which he starred opposite Patrick Swayze. That story of a group of bank-robbing, thrill-seeking surfers and the undercover FBI agent sent to apprehend them got rebooted in 2015, but somewhat predictably, the newer version was unable to recapture any of the magic that made the original such a hit.
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