What are your thoughts of Keanu Reeves’s performance as Johnny Silverhand?

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  1. Perfect-Ad-770

    He was so good I liked to hate to like to hate him.

  2. PaleShadowNight

    I want to resurrect his corpse fit it with AV thrusters have it fly up to Arasaka’s tower and drop a nuke on it all while firing lasers from his “impressive cock”.

  3. HMThrow_away_account

    I thought it was pretty good. He played the role well

  4. Eyebrigh7

    He’s really good. Makes me wanna watch John Wick because apparently those movies are good.

  5. Necessary-Penalty-81

    One of his best honestly, I’ve always loved him but he really impressed me in this, especially with the amount of dialogue there is. A couple of the endings tear me up and he’s a big part of why

  6. Viper_Visionary

    It could have turned into a pointless celebrity cameo so easily, but Johnny’s quite an interesting and multifaceted character. He’s in my top three favorite characters alongside Panam and Songbird.

  7. ET_Gamer_

    Aside from some weird line deliveries (which most if not all the voice actors have throughout the game at least a couple times) he was really good and I was bought into Johnny Silverhand as a character. Also I’d argue with Johnny (perhaps incidentally) him being an engram of the real Silverhand could be used to explain a lot of thing about why Johnny seems off.

  8. Avarice51

    I thought at first it was gonna be horrible, but he actually does an amazing job. People hate it because they think it’s ‘forced’.

  9. _Bill_Cipher-

    I thought he was good. I think he makes a better voice actor than screen actor honestly. He seems flat on screen, but his voice acting is tremendous

  10. NeverThatSerious_

    One of my favorite roles he’s ever had, possibly my favorite

  11. StonerPowah61

    It definitely made me realize “Oh yeah he is perfect to play Shadow the Hedgehog.”

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  12. Phobicaim

    I think this was his first (major?) voice acting gig and it was almost like you differentiate between sections that were voiced earlier on when he was still learning and sections that were voiced later on when he was comfortable. By the end though, I don’t think I would’ve wanted anyone else.

  13. ZERI-NIKUNIKU

    For like the 113367th time, I liked him a lot. It’s gonna be hard to find someone that can match that level of character.

  14. porklonger

    At first I thought it was just the typical keanu reeves performance, (not bad, but not as good as I thought it should be), but upon listening to his dialogue and learning who he is, a burnout piece of shit, it makes sense. Also when he needs to show emotion, he can. Great performance.

  15. CorruptedReality359

    I absolutely love it. Keanu Reeves is my favorite celebrity. Having him basically as your travel buddy throughout the game was great! My little nickname for Cyberpunk is “Adventures with Keanu” XD

  16. AlienAtDay

    I honestly only preordered the game because he was in it. Even as a biased fan it was one of his better performances and pretty damn good.

    The extra cherry on top I discovered one of my favorite games ever because of Keanu.

  17. Habibipie

    Started bad but then got better as the game progressed and then it was amazing for Phantom Liberty.

  18. 0202inferno

    Keanu is an interesting actor.
    He has this dry way of speaking. Not monotone, but very noticeable. It can come off as a bit stilted.

    However!
    You can really feel his entire presence and emotions during the John Wick trilogy. I think it’s the same way with him as Johnny Silverhand. At one point, you stop seeing Keanu and start seeing Johnny. Keanu had been hurt by the world but never became bitter. He does portray bitterness very well, like Wick and Johnny.

  19. wumbo_numba5

    So good, forgot it was Keanu Reeves, and only saw him as Johnny

  20. William_Brobrine

    His performance was so good I hated Johnny at first than grew to love the guy to seeing him as a best friend that I didn’t get alongw with if that makes sense. 10/10 performance.

  21. i actually watched john wick and pretend to watch the first Matrix because of his performance on Johnny

    perfect, he nailed the character. And I wish we had a DLC where we could play as Johnny in his past

  22. Philkindred12

    Obviously he’s had roles that are more iconic, but I feel like Johnny might be his best acting performance – just played to all his strengths and provided him so much depth to work with.

    Casting an A-lister to play Johnny was a great idea, and casting Keanu Reeves was even better.

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