So I watched John Wick: Chapter 4 at AMC theaters earlier today, and here are my notes:
As expected, the film had great action scenes, great cinematography and great set pieces (in locales ranging from New York City, the Middle East and Osaka, Japan, to Berlin and Paris)! This was a satisfactory end to this saga...which the previous Keanu Reeves-led franchise of The Matrix didn't have till The Matrix Resurrections in 2021.
Now here are my questions:
- Is Donnie Yen (who portrays Caine in Chapter 4) being typecast by American filmmakers as the blind anti-hero who somewhat saves the day at the end of the movie? Star Wars fans and other folks who saw 2016's Rogue One will know what I'm referring to.
- What happened to Halle Berry's kick-ass character Sofia from John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum? Or the Adjudicator played by Asia Kate Dillon in that installment as well?
- Am I the only one who'll always think of Pennywise the Clown from the IT films whenever Bill Skarsgård (who portrays the Marquis Vincent de Gramont in Chapter 4) appears on screen?
- What is it with clubgoers and regular pedestrians in every John Wick movie being absolutely incapable—until the last minute—of noticing Wick fighting and killing bad guys right next to them? (The answer: Odd acting instructions giving to the background actors by assistant directors and production assistants on set.)
Considering that John Wick apparently flies around the world with ease, you would think that there would be a cool action sequence aboard an airliner where Wick (who has a $20 million bounty on his head at the start of the movie) takes on an assassin or two who are trying to neutralize him before he arrives in Osaka or something... Oh well.
And lastly:
Are John Wick's bones made out of adamantium (die-hard comic book nerds will get this X-Men reference), or is his kevlar suit that effective in protecting him after tumbling down multiple staircases, falling out of the window of a 3-story building and getting hit by several cars in Paris' Place de l'Etoile roundabout (the last two didn't take place in the same scene)? Obviously the latter.
If you see this awesome flick, don't forget to stay after the end credits!
Spoiler ahead: The fate of Lance Reddick's character Charon—the reliable Continental concierge who helped John Wick in the last two sequels—is even more poignant given that Reddick has departed in real life. May he rest in peace.
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