John Wick - Chapter 4

Watched it yesterday. Overall, it was a bit like Windows releases for me. I liked 1, didn't like 2, liked 3, didn't really like 4. It felt like it was running on fumes.

That scene in Japan in that glass room just reminded me of the other scene in the glass room with Japanese/samurai artifacts from JW3. Attack dogs were used better in JW3 IMO. The whole going back to the Russian family, I just felt like, "oh, this lot. Again". The dance club scene with the ridiculously oblivious people, we had dance club scenes in JW1 and 2 already. God mode kevlar suits made things a bit boring. Mr Nobody missing a shot on someone who was literally standing still.

I enjoyed the dragon's breath scene, and Scott Adkins was fun and I would've liked to see more of him, but after JW3 with so many good, memorable sequences (book, knife shop, dogs, horses), this one felt very rehashy and not particularly inventive.

Also minor gripe, and I don't know if it's a technical limitation or whatever, but if they went through the trouble of changing the credits to include a tribute to Lance Reddick in the credits, it would've been better to have it at the top of the credits rather than literally at the very end when everyone had left already.

-edit- Oh, one other thing I forgot to mention, but I'm really starting to despise when it's blatantly obvious they're just on a giant bluescreen. The ending scene in Paris at sunrise, they tried to make it look all spectacular, but it had that naff, clean, uniformly blurry bluescreen look that was just so obviously fake and took me out of it.
 
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So I watched this today and I enjoyed it. It didn't have the impact of the first movie but I was still entertained. The dragon bullets did make chortle.

It was a solid slick action movie, no one is trying teach me anything just make me smile and on that front it succeeded. I hope it rakes in a ton of cash.
 
Christ that was a mad ride. Probably needs a little longer to bake but I think generally speaking it's going to be my favorite of the series. Thought it flowed really well and some of the set pieces where glorious. New members of the cast where great but Donnie Yen inparticular was superb, you could tell he was having so much fun.
 
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The first hour was a bit of struggle for me in places as there's only so many times you can see JW walk into a room, get shot at by 3-4 guys whilst hiding behind his suit them killing 1-2 with his gun and using hand/hand to incapacitate the last two, over and over and over and over again with the only difference being the room he's in.

Once they'd got to Paris the "rinse/repeat" seemed to be far less noticeable and the cars stunts were fantastic and the houseclearing with "Dragons Breath" shotgun shells was filmed amazingly well.

However, what held it together mostly for me wasn't Wick but Donnie Yen TBH, who always is a stand-out in any film for me.
 
A bit late to the party but saw it tonight finally. I was going to watch it in Japan but it doesn’t get released there until September!

Anyway, some fight scenes are repetitive, especially when against another group with armour suits, but i like how they try to mix it up. The Hot Line Miami style top down view point was a nice touch, since John Wick is a very video game like movie anyway and they totally embraced that aspect of it.

I wanted to see more of that Japanese girl, i was hoping she’d show up in the 2nd half of the movie, perhaps a spin off in the future?

I think the 1st one is still my favourite, this 4th one is certainly the biggest with the largest sets, most dramatic fights, more cinematic but the 1st one was more personal and more feelings. Donnie Yen stole the movie though, he certainly was more interesting as a character from the way he fights with his sword and style.
 
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Caught it over the weekend, probably my favourite of the sequels, although each one has some standout scenes.

I still utterly, absolutely, hate with a passion the 'batfink' bulletproof suit pull over the face all the time and did someone lend him wolverines legs, those car impacts :D

This one does push his plot armour to the limit but I just accepted that early on and enjoyed the ride - the action scenes and choreography were fantastic as we've come to expect at this point in the series - roll on The Ballerina movie with Ana De Armas and Continental series in autumn.

Did everyone stay for the post credits scene?

Raymond Lin said:
I wanted to see more of that Japanese girl, i was hoping she’d show up in the 2nd half of the movie, perhaps a spin off in the future?
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Post credits scene ;)
 
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SixTwoSix said:
Caught it over the weekend, probably my favourite of the sequels, although each one has some standout scenes.

I still utterly, absolutely, hate with a passion the 'batfink' bulletproof suit pull over the face all the time and did someone lend him wolverines legs, those car impacts :D

This one does push his plot armour to the limit but I just accepted that early on and enjoyed the ride - the action scenes and choreography were fantastic as we've come to expect at this point in the series - roll on The Ballerina movie with Ana De Armas and Continental series in autumn.

Did everyone stay for the post credits scene?


Post credits scene ;)
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Ah poo! I googled after the credits rolled but couldn't get a sigal and it was late so I went home and to bed!
 
I absolutely love switching off your brain and just enjoy films but this was way over the top.
I just don't get the 'baddies running in front of him to be shot in the head from 1 foot' scenes.
Yes I know it happened in the other 3 but there's only so much you can take.
I will watch again though :)
 
I must have been living under a stone for the past decade but WTF there is a John Wick 4? I remember seeing the first one and thinking it was a below average action film... Now there's a 4th one? And it's 3 hours? Crikey.
 
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I must have been living under a stone for the past decade but WTF there is a John Wick 4? I remember seeing the first one and thinking it was a below average action film... Now there's a 4th one? And it's 3 hours? Crikey.
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Do you know when you put a 'shoot em up' video game on and put it on the very easiest level and then all the baddies run straight in front of you but none of them can aim properly?
It's like that and goes on and on without them getting any better.
It also features a blind man who can shoot somebody at 50 yards with pin point accuracy through the forehead but as a job finding his stick.
 
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Do you know when you put a 'shoot em up' video game on and put it on the very easiest level and then all the baddies run straight in front of you but none of them can aim properly?
It's like that and goes on and on without them getting any better.
It also features a blind man who can shoot somebody at 50 yards with pin point accuracy through the forehead but as a job finding his stick.
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This is the sort of review format I could get on board with :D
 
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