John Wick: Chapter 4 is the latest in the increasingly convoluted Wick-verse. JW(Keanu Reeves) is still running and killing after the events of Parabellum, The Table still wants him dead and now they have a new new new person to manage it, the Marquis(Bill Skarsgård), and a new new super assassin for the specific job Caine(Donnie Yen).
I love Reeves, he's great, but he looks old and tired here, he's slow, and the fight choreography is simply not up to snuff with more CGI than ever before. The rest of the cast come across equally exhausted and weighed down by the inept attempts at world building the series trades in and the extensive and pointless exposition. Aside from Yen, who is virtually the movie's only saving grace, and Hiroyuki Sanada in a too brief appearance, there's almost no characters to really connect with here, almost everyone is on auto-pilot.
The beautiful jet-setting locations have little impact and the action sequences feel tired, rote, and devoid of actual stakes. John Wick has been a clinic in diminishing returns and this is the longest and worst of the lot. The plot is overly complicated, frequently absurd, all of the characters(aside from the two mentioned above) feel like automatons, all the deaths pile up and mean nothing. Even Wick's character(and by extension Reeves) seems to have lost the thread as to what all this was about.
A certifiable slog.
Currently in theaters, coming soon to VOD.
Don't See It.
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