10-24-2023, 08:16 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-24-2023, 08:17 AM by Eric Cartman.)
John Wick 4 was more John Wick, but probably the last one - although its clearly setting itself up for the John Wick Cinematic Universe spin offs and eventual (soft?) reboot.
Like the other John Wicks, some cool set pieces, some cool characters whose raison d'etre is to be a cool character, some sheer fucking nonsense of a plot (which I'm now pretty sure is just Vampire: the Masquerade, but with organised crime instead of Vampires) and the ongoing theme that violence leads to more violence.
Probably my favourite part was John Wick gets a new suit that looks like his old suit, but this one is made of Kevlar so he keeps doing dracula poses with his jacket because thats how kevlar works and it stops him getting shot in the face. Also a sequence where he has to get to the top of a long flight of stairs on a deadline, and gets pretty much to the top, then gets full body checked and the camera just watches him literally roll alllllllllll the way back down to the bottom again. Also a cool section with a shotgun with incendiary bullets as a small part of a larger set piece.
Bill Skarsgard is pretty good as the new asshole in charge who probably wouldnt end up sparking off a bunch of revenge killings if he wasnt such an asshole, in true John Wick fashion, Donnie Yens great as "blind" assassin and foil / obvious parallel to John Wick not-zatoichi, and oh shit Clancy Browns here too.
Excellent Gun-Fu, they shoulda had carrie ann moss cameo in one of these things before wrapping it all up though.
Like the other John Wicks, some cool set pieces, some cool characters whose raison d'etre is to be a cool character, some sheer fucking nonsense of a plot (which I'm now pretty sure is just Vampire: the Masquerade, but with organised crime instead of Vampires) and the ongoing theme that violence leads to more violence.
Probably my favourite part was John Wick gets a new suit that looks like his old suit, but this one is made of Kevlar so he keeps doing dracula poses with his jacket because thats how kevlar works and it stops him getting shot in the face. Also a sequence where he has to get to the top of a long flight of stairs on a deadline, and gets pretty much to the top, then gets full body checked and the camera just watches him literally roll alllllllllll the way back down to the bottom again. Also a cool section with a shotgun with incendiary bullets as a small part of a larger set piece.
Bill Skarsgard is pretty good as the new asshole in charge who probably wouldnt end up sparking off a bunch of revenge killings if he wasnt such an asshole, in true John Wick fashion, Donnie Yens great as "blind" assassin and foil / obvious parallel to John Wick not-zatoichi, and oh shit Clancy Browns here too.
Excellent Gun-Fu, they shoulda had carrie ann moss cameo in one of these things before wrapping it all up though.
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