![]() ![]() This leads to a fresh series of tight situations, and unholy alliances with returning and new characters. In a switch from being constantly on the run and the hunted, here Wick is on the offensive deciding instead to go after the High Table, setting up a one-on-one challenge against their sadistic emissary, The Marquis, in order to get the target off his back. RELATED: SXSW 2023: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews Fortunately, even if it seems just too much of a good thing at times, John Wick: Chapter 4delivers. Director Chad Stahelski, a former martial arts expert and stunt man for Reeves in the Matrix pictures, clearly knows what the audience wants and expects, and seems determined to ratchet it all up a few notches. He’s not, and instead in a sequence that might be described as John Wick meets Lawrence of Arabia, we get reintroduced to him in the Jordanian desert as he takes to horseback in the first of those many, many action sequences which are the signature attraction here, obviously. This new film opens with the assumption of the High Table, that unseen cabal of Crime Lords out to make a deal for John’s head, that Wick is dead. I personally have still never forgiven the first film for brutally killing off John’s lovable little beagle puppy, but I have to let it go, as the rest of the series has not let audiences down - particularly the last one with a kick-ass Halle Berry and what is still for me that amazing sequence, a masterpiece of action choreography with all those killer dogs doing their thing against the humans. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Arrests Austin With SXSW Premiere Keanu Reeves Says He’ll Be Back With Cameo In ‘Ballerina’ Spinoff ![]()
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