John Wick: Chapter 4

John Wick: Chapter 4

With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.

  • Released: 2023-03-23
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Action, Crime, Thrillers
  • Stars: Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Shamier Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Ian McShane, Bill Skarsgård, Hiroyuki Sanada, Lance Reddick, Clancy Brown, Scott Adkins, Rina Sawayama, Marko Zaror, Natalia Tena, Ryan Castle, Aimée Kwan
  • Director: Chad Stahelski
 Comments
  • himanshutundiya - 11 June 2024
    Worst movie ever
    I will always regret that I wasted my 3 hours on such a stupid movie.

    John Wick's movie is not set in our world, it takes place in some other multiverse, where the bones of humans are made of steel. No matter how many vehicles collide with you, no matter how high a building you fall from, no one's bones break.

    The first movie was very very good, but all the movies after that were worse than bad.

    The producer, director and studio should have stopped after the first movie.

    After the first movie, I watched all the other movies in the hope that I would get to watch a movie that could compete with the first one, but sadly I was disappointed every time.
  • KAB_SanAntonioBay - 19 May 2024
    Proof that less is more
    You really do need to suspend your disbelief for this car crash of a movie. This isn't just jumping the shark, this is jumping a sharknado whilst deflecting bullets with a hard stare.

    Main characters have almost endless stamina, suffer minimal to no damage and recover in seconds when they do. Watching John Wick fall four stories onto a parked camper van and walk away was just insulting.

    I've seen Marvel superheroes with less capability than John Wick.

    And then there are the endless red shirts - just watch the background characters writhing in slow motion until the fight coordinator yells "your turn" and you can watch them magically fumble for a gun while John shoots/stabs/punches/nunchucks them to death... I can almost hear the director shouting "next" after each kill.

    And it goes on and on and on for 3 hours.

    Yes, there are some brilliantly choreographed fights (if you can ignore the stupidly and convenience of the endless red shirts) but it becomes numbing after 30 mins. At best.

    At least the original was far better at building suspense and using its action carefully to ensure a well balanced and entertaining film. Instead, this watches like the extended plot of an over excited teenager after watching his first kung-fu movie.

    Next...
  • uscmd - 16 March 2024
    I dare you. See if you can do a complete body count.
    I was a HUGE John Wick fan after I and II. HUGE. III was ok. But this was dark, the entire 1st half was shot at night, or indoor hotel/bar type lighting. Which made the largely gratuitous wholesale slaughter hard to follow. I didn't count, but maybe 75 deaths. And please understand, I'm far from anti violence. It just seems to me in the first 3 films, the violence was more developed, the characters getting killed were fleshed out. And sure, those evil guys had a cadre of protectors., but some of them had an identity. Here we have guys fighting and dying, like "avatars" in a video game. Worse maybe avatars on a loop.

    Think about movies where the protagonist is a killer. I believe there is a finite number, of deaths at which point it becomes numbing, or worse, silly. Add to that the lighting and cinematography and at times it was hard to tell who was killing whom. I wonder if this could be a Wick send off, a kill fest for his finale? I've deliberately stayed away from anything in the spoiler arena. Simply commenting on my overall takeaway.

    Imagine this.dark, murky fight scenes, in which you can do 30 second skips, and nothings changed. Henchmen, nameless, faceless, are dying wholesale. A very real exaggeration of the first 3 movies. I'm going to rate this 5/10. A conflicted rating. I like John Wick. I like the character and loyalty of some of his friends. It just seems lazy, to substitute fight scenes, for further character evolution. I honestly thought this was scripted for a cartoon, or written by A. I.

    Maybe they are zooming in on what they perceive their target audience. Which is fine, just don't ignore the rest of us 'fans.'