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Our Review
- Keanu Reeves
- March 23rd 2023
A tragically clumsy ending to one of cinema’s greatest action franchises
John Wick 4 lives in a guilded cage built by the rest of the franchise, forever groping for new ideas while trying to work as a love letter to the previous movies. It’s hard to say it succeeds on either front.
The Wick brand of gun-fu has become boring.
There’s only so much you can do with judo and firearms. There’s only so many ways to throw, pin and shoot opponents before choreography gets recycled.
John Wick 4 recycles a lot of choreography. There’s not much here that we haven’t seen in John Wick 1 or 2. 3, the best in the franchise, actually had very little gun-fu, instead moving wisely towards blades where the more novel choreography lies.
When 3 did use guns, it had an original hook, combat with a dog or heavily armoured guards (a gimmick which 4 abuses horribly).
I should *never* be bored when John gets a gun. Keanu isn’t even that slick with them, but the nunchuk fight is one of the better...
