“The two hours, 49 minutes ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ gets by with some gratifying excess and nice suits. But I miss the simpler kinetic pleasures of ‘John Wick 3,’” writes Tribune critic phillipstribune.
, followed by the blade-throwing square-off at the antique weaponry boutique killed in every way possible. The elaborate stunt work and fight choreography felt more or less of this Earth; those scenes made their mark as true, small-scale peaks of contemporary action moviemaking. Too much of “John Wick 4″ mistakes grandiloquence for excitement. But yes, as bloody diversion goes, the audience gets its money’s worth.
You can talk about the movie’s devotion to honor among gentlemen, exemplified by Reeves’ scenes with his friend and protector Winston . Ian McShane returns here. But I don’t buy any of that honor-among-well-dressed-killers guff, any more than I buy it in the lesser “Kingsman” franchise.
After Osaka, the movie goes sideways and then down and then up again. It perks up each time the blind assassin Caine reappears; he’s deft as well as witty in the way he goes about his business, and he’s basically the polar opposite of McShane, who smirks his way through material that never gives him the zingers he deserves.
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