John Wick: Chapter 4 Film Assessment

critic’s ranking: 



4.0/5

John Wick (Keanu Reeves) kills the Elder, the one particular person above the Excessive Desk in Morocco. Due to this, New York Chad Stahelski Continental Resort supervisor Winston Scott (Ian McShane) and his concierge, Charon (Lance Reddick), are summoned to the Marquis Vincent de Gramont (Invoice Skarsgard), a senior member of the Excessive Desk. Vincent kills Charon as a warning and units a excessive open bounty on John Wicks. Whereas the world’s greatest assassins are lured by the lucre to kill him, the 2 deadliest appear to be his previous buddy Caine (Donnie Yen), and a brand new entity, Mr No one (Shamier Anderson), who travels with an assault canine. His solely hope to get out of this mess is to formally problem Vincent to a duel and kill him. To take action, he must be a part of the Excessive Desk as soon as extra. His adoptive sister Katia (Natalia Tena), agrees to take him again into the fold, provided that he manages to kill Killa (Scott Adkins), a German Excessive Desk member who murdered her father. John Wick efficiently does so, resulting in a mammoth showdown involving Caine, Mr No one, a whole lot of hitmen and in the end, Vincent himself…

The storyline doesn’t do justice to the parade of steady motion that you simply see for shut to a few hours. Director Chad Stahelski, who began out as a stuntman earlier than transferring up the ladder, pushes his actors and stunt doubles to the boundaries of human endurance. By no means thoughts the truth that folks aren’t really being hit by rushing autos or falling off three flooring on prime of a automobile. All of it seems to be so genuine that the viewers gasps and groans, as if it’s bodily feeling the ache. Some concepts are means out of this world. To see Scott Adkins kick some butt, delivering excessive kicks whereas sporting a prosthetic swimsuit which bloats him out to Sumo proportions is deliciously wild. And what’s extra audacious is having Donnie Yen play a blind murderer who is nearly higher than John Wick regardless of his handicap. It’s virtually as if somebody has given Ip Man Jedi powers. Donnie Yen dodging a hail of bullets enjoying a blind man asks for an entire suspension of disbelief however you’ll be able to’t take your eyes off him whereas he’s doing that. There have been rumours that we had been going to see a crossover between the John Wick universe and No one universe. Effectively, that hasn’t really occurred, as Bob Odenkirk, who performs the titular character within the 2021 movie, isn’t a part of this film. However we do have a Mr No one character, performed by Shamier Anderson, who’s one thing of a wildcard right here. He and his canine companion deliver their very own dose of motion and provide one other layer to the proceedings.

The movie might be seen as a homage to Keanu Reeves. Whether or not it’s The Matrix (1999), 47 Ronin (2013), or his directorial enterprise, Man of Tai Chi (2013), we see echoes of the earlier movies on this. John Woo has been credited as being the daddy of Gun Fu, the place gun battle is mixed with martial arts parts. And a lot of John Woo’s early work, from movies like A Higher Tomorrow (1986), Bullet within the Head and extra is mirrored right here. Chad Stahelski will need to have idolised Woo rising up and the coed, one can say, has surpassed the grasp right here.

Donnie Yen is 59 and Keanu Reeves is a yr youthful and but each make motion look really easy even at their age. They share an awesome camaraderie and it is a deal with to see two nice motion stars coming collectively and regaling the viewers with their distinct preventing kinds. Whereas their particular person scenes do make for an awesome watch, it’s their scenes collectively that actually elevates the movie. Watching them collectively is like watching poetry in movement and kudos to the director and his workforce for bringing a lyrical high quality to the motion.

All-in-all, watch the movie for its never-seen-before motion sequences, as additionally for the pleasure of watching two masters of motion, Keanu Reeves and Donnie Yen, giving their greatest to the movie.

Trailer : John Wick