Possibly the best straight action movie since the first Taken. This is easily the best action movie this year. This sort of thing is common in movies but it's always unbelievable and reminds me of the old James Bond villains. About the only problem I had with it was the unrealistic scene where the bad guy finally gets the upper hand on the 'hero' and doesn't kill him. The stuff with the hotel for assassins and the way they all know each other was pretty funny. Oh and hey the beat-up guy from the Allstate commercials is in this. Michael Nyqvist was made to play villains. Willem Dafoe, Alfie Allen, Ian McShane, and Lance Reddick lead a good supporting cast. Glad to see him doing something watchable again. Now John Wick is out for revenge and the Russian gangster is trying to save his son's life by sending killers after John. They did this not knowing who he was they just wanted the car. They beat him up, take the keys to his beloved car, and kill the puppy. A few days later some thugs, led by the son of a Russian gangster John used to work for, break into John's house. After her funeral he receives a puppy she left him. Retired hit-man John Wick (Keanu Reeves) loses his wife to cancer. I was told by a friend this was good but it's been awhile since I liked a Keanu movie so I was hesitant to try it. In the meantime, check out our guide to all the upcoming major movie release dates for everything else the year has in store.Wow what a great surprise this was. Fortunately, even if it seems just too much of a good thing at times, John Wick: Chapter 4 delivers." Director Chad Stahelski, a former martial arts expert and stunt man for Reeves in the Matrix pictures, clearly knows what the audience wants and expects, and seems determined to ratchet it all up a few notches. He's not, and instead in a sequence that might be described as John Wick meets Lawrence of Arabia, we get reintroduced to him in the Jordanian desert as he takes to horseback in the first of those many, many action sequences which are the signature attraction here, obviously. "This new film opens with the assumption of the High Table, that unseen cabal of Crime Lords out to make a deal for John's head, that Wick is dead. Running at 2 hours and 49 minutes, it is bigger than the previous films in every way – not better or worse, just more." Deadline – Pete Hammond "The twist in Chapter 4 is that John Wick goes full James Bond, globe-trotting and shooting his way through glamorous cities, with action that is even more spectacularly staged. It's like Sergio Leone crossed with John Woo as seen in Times Square." BBC – Caryn James Yet the way that Chad Stahelski, the series' stuntman-turned-director, has staged it, full of hushed, portentous, ritualistic verbal showdowns that are meant to be hypnotic as they build up to each new action scene, Chapter 4 feels like the first John Wick movie that wants to be a Clint Eastwood spaghetti Western. "John Wick: Chapter 4 is 2 hours and 49 minutes long, but it has a story that, if it were told more briskly, could fit into an 83-minute potboiler that you might have seen in a grindhouse in 1977. Wick's latest outing indulges in muchness for its own sake, and where unrestrained excess has blown open the gate for mad inspiration in so many others, the director, Chad Stahelski, lacks the showman's instinct for building and payoff." Variety – Owen Gleiberman Roger Ebert memorably declared that no good movie is too long, his point not that fun can go on forever, but that a well-told story takes as long as it takes. An entirely earnest and altogether fatal fondness for itself has drawn out a franchise once prized for its lean-and-mean ferocity into a logy death march set at a dirge's pace. Scene after scene drags on far past the point of redundancy, the zillion solemn ceremonies and over-the-shoulder flips landing in monotony without the saving grace of a winking laugh. "To crib a phrase, everything happens so much to our killing-machine hero as he blazes a bloody trail from New York to Osaka to Berlin to Paris. And it is the best John Wick movie." The Guardian – 2/5 – Charles Bramesco The rules and consequences the John Wick universe has taken such care to establish provide its fourth chapter a rock-solid structure that allows for director Chad Stahelski and star Keanu Reeves to stage a symphony of onscreen action, with every component driving to elevate the others. "In Chapter 4 of this story, John Wick's vendetta has forced the Table into open warfare, and it thrives on John's acceptance of the fact that even he can't win that war on his own.
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