Film Review: Wild Ride for Keanu Reeves in ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’

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CHICAGO – The John Wick films have always contained body counts that reach well into triple digits. But in “John Wick: Chapter 4” the series indulges in some serious overkill. Everything you liked about the previous three films is on display, with about 20 percent more of the franchise’s growing mythology surrounding the High Table.

Rating: 3.5/5.0

Picking up immediately after the events of Chapter 3, John Wick (Keanu Reeves) begins on horseback in Africa dispatching a handful of adversaries in the opening minute before coming to “The Elder” who is the only person who sits above “The High Table” (the secret illuminati organization of assassins that controls and runs absolutely everything). Wick had been promised his freedom in the last film, but when he arrives he finds a new person in charge who refuses to honor the deal. So Wick does what he always does with his adversaries, he puts a bullet in The Elder’s brain.

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John Wick: Chapter 4
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Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “John Wick: Chapter 4”