Keanu Reeves' 2018 sci-fi thriller suddenly a Netflix hit years after release

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Keanu Reeves ' career took a hit not long after the success of the Matrix trilogy . He starred in a handful of small-scale projects, with the occasional big-budget studio movie thrown in. Not many of those films worked, with some of the bigger ones — Constantine , The Day the Earth Stood Still , and 47 Ronin — all underperforming either critically or commercially, or both. Reeves' career wouldn't turn around until 2014, when he starred in a seemingly innocuous action movie that emerged as a word-of-mouth hit, and built on its box-office success on the home video market. It spawned a franchise that continues to this day and has grossed more than $1 billion globally. We're talking, of course, about John Wick . But things were so uncertain back in the mid-2010s that Reeves attempted to replicate the first film's success with another action-thriller that debuted only four years later.