After being forced out of retirement to repay old favours and breaking an ancient code in the process, legendary hitman John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is excommunicated from the shadowy assassin’s guild. He must now fight his way out of New York City, as the underworld’s most powerful organisation has put out a $14 million contract on his life, making him the target of the world’s top assassins and bounty hunters.

This is the third film in a series that has seen each subsequent entry outmatch the last in box office takings and body counts. The magnificent Reeves returns, with stuntman-turned-director Chad Stahelski at the helm, offering up yet another brutally beautiful cacophony of action, car chases and hand-to-hand combat.

In the year 2084, Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is bored of his ordinary life as a construction worker. Dreaming of visiting the colonised planet of Mars, he employs the services of Rekall, a company that plants false memories into its customer’s brains.

The procedure goes wrong, however, leaving Douglas with a newfound recollection of being a secret agent, with unknown forces suddenly in pursuit. In order to separate reality from false memories, Quaid makes his way to Mars for answers.

This 1990 sci-fi cult classic merges the mind-bending smarts of author Philip K. Dick (Blade Runner, Minority Report) with the violent, effects-laden style of director Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop, Starship Troopers) and a star at top of his game in Schwarzenegger.