As impressive as it is frustrating, JohnWick: Chapter 4 eventually wears out its welcome thanks to its exhausting three-hour runtime.
John Wick Chapter Four Score Details “John Wick: Chapter 4 has some of the best action scenes ever made, but its bloated 169 minute runtime ultimately ruins the overall experience.” Pros Cons There’s no franchise more scrappy and likable than the John Wick movies of the last decade. The first film, 2014’s John Wick, was a low-budget affair, helmed by an unproven director, stuntman Chad Stahelski, and starring a then-unbankable Keanu Reeves.
The same old John Wick John Wick: Chapter 4‘s plot doesn’t deviate too much from its predecessors: John gets involved with the shady High Table, the Bowery King helps him out, and lots of bad guys get slaughtered in very creative ways. This time around, John runs up against the Marquis Vincent de Gramont , a high-ranking member of the High Table who wants John dead.
The plot’s pretty simple, and that’s a good thing for a third sequel in a franchise like this one. Except for a scene with the Elder at the beginning that ties up a dangling plot thread from the previous film, John Wick: Chapter 4 is fairly self-contained and coherent, something that is lacking in today’s moviegoing landscape of needlessly complicated cinematic universes, multiverses, and reboots disguised as sequels.
Is too much of a good thing bad? Stahelski’s only mistake, and it’s a big one, is to linger too much on the action scenes, which not only dilutes their effectiveness but exposes the strained reality that the John Wick universe now finds itself in. For instance, the fight sequence in the Berlin nightclub begins well enough, with John, Caine, Mr.
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