‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ review: Keanu Reeves returns to kick some ass
nypost.comhad Keanu Reeves gallop on a horse through Brooklyn? Four tremendous films and nine years into the adrenaline-fueled, Reeves-led action series, director Chad Stahelski has yet to let his franchise noticeably dip in quality. “Wick” wields an assured identity and fireworks style with the same confidence of its main character carrying a deadly pistol.
The film’s use of popping color and unusual vantage points for shots is stunning — more stunning than anybody expects it to be, really.And yet, as always with “JW,” there is barely any plot to speak of.
These are kill-or-be-killed stories, and this time the world’s greatest assassin dreams of finally being freed from the tyranny of the criminal organization the High Table that he works for.
But an elder of the shadowy group tells him, “The only way John Wick will have peace or freedom, now or ever, is in death.” So, naturally, John shoots him.Then, a High Table bigwig, the Marquis Vincent de Gramont (Bill Skarsgård), has his henchmen — including the crafty blind assassin Caine (Donnie Yen) — follow Wick to Japan to take him out at the Osaka Continental hotel.
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