Shawn Van Horn has been a Senior Features Writer for Collider since 2022 with a focus on horror, and 90s TV and movies.
The Big Picture In 2015, Keanu Reeves' career was on a big upswing. There had been a period of time in the 2000s when his career had sputtered a bit with a series of underwhelming films. The public's love for Reeves hadn't ceased at all, but his star power looked to be on the decline. Then came John Wick in 2014, a film that at first looked to be a case of another aging star in a shoot 'em up action movie, but turned out to be so much more.
Then there's Ana de Armas, an actress who has become one of the biggest stars in the world thanks to a string of hits from a lead role in Knives Out, a small but unforgettable appearance again with Daniel Craig in No Time to Die, and an Academy Award nomination worthy performance in Blonde. Her upward trajectory looks to continue as the lead in Ballerina, a film set in the John Wick universe. De Armas hasn't been in a John Wick film before, but the character she will play has.
The John Wick Star Gave Us a Different Kind of Character in 'Knock Knock' In Knock Knock, Reeves still played the hero, but one who wasn't so morally good. The premise of the film is effective in its simpleness. A remake of the 1978 film Death Game, Roth not only directed but wrote this new adaptation, which sees Reeves play a man named Evan Webber. Webber is a successful architect living in a rather big house with large windows looking out onto his equally impressive yard.
It's not as if Reeves hadn't played the villain before. He was a killer in both 2000s The Gift and The Watcher. Those movies, however, came out long before he became an actor idolized on the level of Betty White. Can you imagine Keanu Reeves playing an evil serial killer now? It's probably not something audiences would feel comfortable with. Knock Knock puts him in an intereresting in between spot. Evan is not evil, but he's no saint either.
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