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
- triisi - 17 June 2024
Excellent and great
Okay it's great. Intense amazing action, slick looks, choreography greatness, cool, cool, John Wick is his name and this movie delivers greatness. You gotta see it. John Wick enters the house, bang. John Wick gets angry, bang. John Wick wants to impress, and in this movie he does impress. He wears black suit and uses pistols and he looks great as in the previous movies. Action is amazing, movie looks amazing, John Wick doing stuff is amazing and it's great. Impressive impressive yes indeed. You are in for a treat. John Wick gives us greatness in this movie and it's great so expect to be amazed. - alex_with_a_P - 27 May 2024
One hour too long but the best sequel
I went into the sequel without any expectations but was mostly pleasantly surprised. The main reason for that is thanks to Donnie Yen's character, who displays more depth and charisma than all of John's story in all movies combined. I hate to say it, since I like Keanu Reeves. But on every sequel of his respectable films he sleepwalks through his movies - very obvious in Bill & Ted 3, where he played the confused John Wick.
Like I said, John's storyline is the weakest overall, it felt repetitive, but I have to admit, I liked how they handled the closure. What drags this move's rating down is the unjustified running time. A lot of the action scenes feel unnecessary bloated, why exactly was John in Japan to endanger his last good friend? Why he offed that guy in the desert if it didn't change a thing? The Wick sequels have been particular lazy in expanding their world building or inciting incidents for action scenes. And all of the action scenes overstay their welcome. There's a whole character sub-plot with the character of Tracker which should have been left on the cutting room floor in my opinion. If that movie was edited tighter into a 90 minutes film it easily would have elevated the whole thing. As it is now, it's still the best sequel, since it is less forgettable than part two & three.
