The latest installment of the ‘John Wick’ franchise offers a vast canvas for stunt work and action choreography with a sincere and brooding Keanu Reeves as the anchor
Series director Chad Stahelski pulls out all the stops to deliver a fan-favourite follow up to the previous three films. Photo: IMDB
About 20 minutes into the nearly three-hour-long John Wick: Chapter 4, I was tempted to keep a tally of the body count. Since that turned out to be an impossible task, one began to focus on the elaborate action pieces, hard-hitting violence, the blood splatter and the recurring presence of a dog.
Wick is a marked man. Rendered “excommunicado” by the assassin league for breaking a cardinal rule, he now has to face off against former friends and encounter new opponents, shooting his way through Jordan, and Europe. There’s a huge bounty on his head. Wick is fighting for survival and working his way to the High Table. Anyone who attacks him or stands in his way will get shot, stabbed, sliced or bludgeoned by his nunchaku.
