John Wick

ST. LOUIS – Fight like Keanu Reeves from the John Wick: Chapter 4! Do the fight scenes in movies really work in real life self-defense?

John Wick was directed by Chad Stahelski (Serenity, Rock Star) and David Leitch (Hobbs & Shaw, Deadpool 2), written by Derek Kolstad (Nobody, Die Hart), ...

Some drawbacks are present, such as the odd inclusion of a framed narrative and a lot of CG blood, but for a low to mid-budget debut, it’s no big deal. Because the script, for all of its quirks (expect plenty of veiled dialogue) and quality, is essentially a formula action outline, striking a good pace was virtually required. A slick wardrobe, plenty of modern weaponry, and upper-class location give the movie a distinct neon noir appearance, shot smoothly and in full colour by Jonathan Sela (The Lost City, Powder Blue). Editor Elisabet Ronaldsdottir (Shang-Chi, Inhale) was up to the task, maintaining a healthy level of character and plot development for the first 30 minutes before creating a blisteringly swift revenge odyssey for the remaining 65. Marcus is a peer of John’s, showing up to Helen’s funeral to send condolences, making room for audience suspicion, Perkins is a hotheaded black widow, and Aurelio is a wary worker who wants no part in any of this. Stahelski and Leitch refuse to let up on John, keeping the ball rolling until he finds Iosef. The Action: Being directed by two former stuntmen pays dividends for John Wick’s action scenes, which are unique within themselves and when compared to most other action films ever produced. Seeing as he employed John at least once, he knows what’s coming, and shows more personality when he puts his son in harm’s way before himself, even though he tried to stop the chaos before it truly started. The script doesn’t waste time with extraneous threads, with a strict focus on revenge making up almost the entirety of the feature. While celebrating his newfound vehicle, Iosef’s father, a mobster named Viggo (Nyqvist) prepares for an onslaught from the victim after learning about what he’d done through Aurelio (Leguizamo), advising Iosef to do the same. It’s vividly illustrated just how attached he was to Helen – and later to Daisy – with his bloodiness not concerning him until he learns who was responsible. The Plot: In a somewhat rare choice for a film, Kolstad actively avoids creating something new in the narrative department, instead opting to develop a world in which it takes place.

Keanu Reeves is back with the fourth chapter of his megahit gun-frenzy franchise "John Wick" next week. He sees its expertly coordinated action scenes as ...

they're almost at war with each other, but they're also connected," Reeves said. I don't know," he said. Paris (AFP) – Keanu Reeves is back with the fourth chapter of his megahit gun-frenzy franchise "John Wick" next week.

While that's long been believed that he'd have a cameo in the Ana de Armas movie, Reeves officially confirmed that rumor tonight at Austin's Paramount Theatre.

Note that’s significantly more than the domestic box office run of the fourth Matrix, The Matrix Resurrections, which grossed $37.6M stateside, hampered by a theatrical day-and-date release with HBO Max. “This was a pure, simple gesture,” said the actor. While that’s long been believed that he’d have a cameo in the Ana de Armas movie, Reeves officially confirmed that rumor tonight at Austin’s Paramount Theatre. The movie even got a short standing ovation during the credits. [to a franchise high of between $60M-$70M](https://deadline.com/2023/03/john-wick-chapter-4-box-office-keanu-reeves-1235276778/) at the domestic box office. [Lionsgate](https://deadline.com/tag/lionsgate/)’s [John Wick: Chapter 4](https://deadline.com/tag/john-wick-chapter-4/) got the festival’s fanboy and fangirl electricity back on track with the rolling laughs and rolling cheers that are the standards of a classic SXSW premiere, complete with star [Keanu Reeves](https://deadline.com/tag/keanu-reeves/) and filmmaker Chad Stahelski onstage at the Paramount.

'Get up, Keanu!' An unannounced premiere of 'John Wick: Chapter 4' with Reeves and director Chad Stahelski sent the SXSW audience into a frenzy Monday.

“It can’t just be, ‘Let’s do another one,’” Reeves added. And training.” “After 8 years of playing the role… He had the suit back on and it was the first time we were back together in three years. Though the “John Wick” franchise is known for its over-the-top action, the story has always been rooted in an unexpected melancholy. Director Chad Stahelski and star Keanu Reeves were there with the film, another action-packed, fists-flying, guns-blazing epic within the world of the High Table.

Lionsgate held a secret SXSW screening of Keanu Reeves' John Wick: Chapter 4, treating fans to three hours of violent mayhem.

[tweeted](https://twitter.com/leosamovieguy/status/1635458228170399746) in part, “Holy hell. Stahelski was asked what he wants the franchise’s legacy to be, and he simply said, “This,” referring to the fan experience of watching it. Like many titles, the project was delayed due to the COVID pandemic, having been originally planned for release in May 2021. This is the first stateside premiere for the franchise installment. During a Q&A that followed the screening, Reeves revealed that he has John’s watch and wedding ring as a souvenir. At one point, after he falls out of a window, a woman in the audience yelled, “Get up, Keanu!” which led to more cheers. Another fan asked Reeves if he actually ages, leading the star to respond, “Yeah, man, I age. Fans were definitely invested in the action, with the crowd hooting and cheering throughout. Lionsgate also initially planned to shoot Chapter 4 along with a fifth installment back to back, but scrapped that plan. [Keanu Reeves](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/keanu-reeves/)’ weary and unstoppable gun-fu assassin in Lionsgate’s hugely popular action franchise. Each hour has one epic lengthy action sequence featuring the franchise’s characteristic mix of mayhem, violence, balletic physicality and morbid humor. Plus, the film includes a post-credits scene.

Austin audiences will get an early look at "John Wick: Chapter 4" during a South by Southwest Film & TV Festival secret screening Monday evening.

[Variety first reported](https://variety.com/2023/film/news/john-wick-4-sxsw-secret-screening-1235547691/) the news last week, citing unnamed sources. [South by Southwest](https://www.statesman.com/story/entertainment/2023/03/01/free-parties-sxsw-2023-without-badge-tips-how-to-austin/69923517007/) Film & TV Festival secret screening Monday evening. screening of "

A chosen few fans has the experience of a lifetime at SXSW when Keanu Reeves & Chad Stahelski led them to a secret screening of John Wick: Chapter 4.

[John Wick 4 received high praise](https://screenrant.com/john-wick-4-movie-early-reactions/) both there and in its subsequence Berlin screening. On the morning of March 13, an individual in an all-black suit was posted outside the Paramount from the hours of 10am to 3pm CT in order to hand out tickets to 20 lucky fans. [John Wick: Chapter 4](https://screenrant.com/tag/john-wick-4/) faced down countless enemies to bring fans a once-in-a-lifetime experience at SXSW this year. (Austin Area) Mon 3/13 @ 9AM CT SXSW now has the honor of becoming the first public screening in the USA, and the messaging for the festival generated a level of buzz worthy of Wick himself. The Texas film festival, which takes place yearly in Austin, designated Monday at 5pm for a "special screening" at the Paramount Theater and announced that a social media campaign would unveil the identity of the special film in question.

Keanu Reeves returns as John Wick, the tortured antihero who's spawned a hugely successful franchise. Its quality hasn't dipped in this fourth installment, ...

And in Paris, Wick has a meeting with the Marquis, the Eiffel Tower providing a picturesque backdrop. We don't know if she kills en pointe, but we do know Reeves is in the film. The franchise is already growing in new directions. Throughout, Wick is trailed by The Tracker (Shamier Anderson), a bounty hunter with a very well-trained killer dog (in fact five incredible stunt dogs). Now, to try to free himself once more, he must grapple with a new villain, the Marquis de Gramont (Bill Skarsgård), who in his first scene commits a murder so arbitrary and upsetting that he instantly becomes one of the franchise's most despicable figures. In Berlin, Wick battles Killa (Scott Adkins), a corpulent, gold-toothed villain who, oddly for a Wick film, seems like a misconceived reject from Goldfinger. Donnie Yen (the Ip Man films) plays a blind assassin. And he violated another rule by doing it on the grounds of a Continental hotel, the supposed safe spaces for assassins around the world. Running at 2 hours and 49 minutes, it is bigger than the previous films in every way – not better or worse, just more. That lethal, bereaved assassin is a good bad guy for our times, the natural extension of Tony Soprano, Walter White and all the other heroic antiheroes the culture has embraced. Reeves' action moves and his sincerity, even when Wick is at his most stern, perfectly capture the blend of emotion and kinetic energy that define the films. Merging an artful aesthetic with brilliantly choreographed and shot fight scenes, it set a standard matched in its three sequels, including the latest, John Wick: Chapter 4.

It's a knowingly overstuffed gift to "John Wick" fans, like a spaghetti Western meets John Woo as seen in Times Square. And on that level it succeeds.

One is set in the middle of the speeding centrifugal traffic that surrounds the Arc de Triomphe, one is shot thrillingly from an overhead doll’s-house view, and then there’s the spectacular climax, which unfolds on the Rue Foyatier in Montmartre, the 222-step stairway that leads to the Basilica. With Wick spinning into action (and, at one point, rolling down the entire flight), it becomes an exhilarating stairway to hell, one that winds up delivering John Wick to a gratifying karmic destination he has spent this series earning. Wick can challenge the marquis to a duel to the death, which will take place at sunrise in front of the Sacré-Coeur Basilica in Paris. And the marquis isn’t going to fight the duel himself. The marquis keeps trying to assassinate Wick before the morning of the duel, and this results in several delectable fight sequences. Caine, who considers Wick his comrade even as he’s assigned to kill him, is as fierce as Wick, and Yen, beneath his aviator sunglasses, gives him a debonair impishness. Because of the high crime he committed at the Continental Hotel (a strict breach of High Table law), it’s as if he’s now under lifetime contract to the devil. Yes, he’d proved his action combat bona fides in the “Matrix” films, but Wick, the former underworld assassin who can’t seem to cut ties with the series’ fanciful, cult-like, Mob-as-Illuminati hierarchy, was a cutthroat desperado with the taste of sadism in his blood. Wick faces a corpulent foe in gold gangsta teeth and a lavender suit who sucks on an inhaler with the relish of Dennis Hopper in “Blue Velvet.” He will, of course, get what’s coming to him. These days, every franchise seems to get mapped out in advance on a corporate balance sheet, but the “John Wick” movies are the rare series that discovered what it was as it went along. Shot in long takes, the action flows enough to earn the term “balletic,” but it’s also vicious enough to be existential. [John Wick: Chapter 4](https://variety.com/t/john-wick-chapter-4/),” the epic culmination of the flamboyantly brutal death-wish-meets-video-game-meets-the-zen-of-Keanu-Reeves action series, our hero finds himself in a Berlin nightclub that resembles a pulsating Bauhaus Eurodisco by way of “Fellini Satyricon.” It’s like a concrete cathedral, with giant mosh pits of dancers throwing their arms up to the heavens as waterfalls cascade down the side walls (it almost looks like it’s raining).

Keanu Reeves returns as the indestructible hitman in a follow-up that confuses bigger for better at a patience-stretching almost three hour runtime.

Those who appreciated the original for its brutal, sinewy agility have another thing coming: a lumbering, stultifying gargantua of a film willing to kill everything except its darlings. To the extent that Wick’s vehicles follow the same schematic as musicals, with shootouts taking the place of song-and-dance numbers, the script doesn’t have to do much more than usher the characters from one showstopper to the next. We’re made to wade through about an hour of movie before an ally notifies J-Dubs that this get-out-of-execution-free card even exists, except that he can’t formally file his challenge with the Marquis until lone wolf Wick pledges his allegiance to one of the guild’s officially recognized cells.

John Wick Chapter 4 opens in theaters on March 24, 2023. From the moment the Baba Yaga first dropped a gold coin in front of Charon at The Continental, ...

Stahelski uses Shimazu’s relationship with his daughter Akira (Rina Samayawa) to underline what morality looks like in a world full of killers, and Sanada is just as impressive in their tender father-daughter moments as he is with a blade in hand. So ride along as we go through all of the biggest video game releases you’ll be able to play on PlayStation, Xbox, and PC in March 2023.Also, you can browse the IGN Playlist of all the biggest titles launching in March. Chapter 3 gave us a taste of what happens when a Continental manager crosses the Table, but as Winston’s counterpart in cool, Hiroyuki Sanada’s Koji Shimazu faces their full wrath with unwavering conviction. Similarly, the droll introduction of homemade incendiary rounds is established in a throwaway line of dialogue… The pure thrill of seeing John Wick’s continuing battle to reclaim his soul work so well is doubly gratifying when you consider it as the labor of love it clearly is for Reeves. In an age of increased grumbling about films with two-plus-hour runtimes, Chapter 4’s roaring pace serves as a counter argument that proclaims movies should be as long as they need to be. In contrast to Chapter 2’s Santino D’Antonio, whose primary leverage over John was personal (an unpaid blood debt), the sadist Marquis wields the authority of the High Table like a dandy Darth Vader, and the cruelties in which he indulges go a long way towards making him an ideal foil to John and his cohorts. And it is the best John Wick movie. John Wick may be the namesake of the franchise, but his journey has increasingly emphasized the importance of social contracts and shared history. The raw-nerved rage of the freshly widowed Wick that wowed in the original movie has progressed into something even more deadly: resolve and focus. It is the most John Wick movie. It is the longest John Wick movie.

Review of 'John Wick: Chapter 4' which quadruples the action and bloats the running time to epic length.

[Lionsgate](https://deadline.com/tag/lionsgate/) opens the film on Friday exclusively in theatres including Imax. So too is a Paris-set sequence where the series puts this antihero in the driver’s seat of a classic muscle car, rampaging through the streets of Sacre Coeur where [Bill Skarsgard](https://deadline.com/tag/bill-skarsgard/)’s The Marquis rules. first screening Monday night at [SXSW](https://deadline.com/tag/sxsw/) Shout-out as well to new cast member Shamier Anderson as The Tracker, a killer with a faithful Belgian Malinois (this series does seem to employ a lot of dogs) that not only is a faithful companion but also pretty fearsome when the situation calls for it. This leads to a fresh series of tight situations, and unholy alliances with returning and new characters. 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.

Keanu Reeves returns as the enigmagic assassin in this flabby fourth instalment of the action franchise.

They are undeniably remarkable — primal, gorgeously choreographed, and sometimes so witty and outlandish they elicit laughs — but Chapter 4 is the first time in the franchise they feel overshadowed by the sheer narrative bulk. The first instalment not to be at least co-written by franchise creator Derek Kolstad, Chapter 4 introduces a potential emotional element, pitting Wick against old friend Caine, neither man wanting to fight the other. The first John Wick boasted a vaguely poignant story involving Wick’s grief for the deaths of his wife and dog — which became his motivation to seek vengeance against some local lowlifes — and the sequels have done their best to justify our hero’s return to the world of assassins after swearing he had retired. Nine years after the original John Wick, this new sequel cannot offer the same blunt surprises — Wick still has a penchant for killing his adversaries by shooting them at point-blank range in the head — but Stahelski ingeniously incorporates all manner of weapons in his fight sequences, favouring practical stunts as much as possible. Chapter 4 hits UK and US theatres on March 24, serving as a follow-up to 2019’s John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, the highest-grossing in the series at $373 million worldwide. Running close to three hours, John Wick: Chapter 4 aspires to be a sweeping action epic – an ambitious approach that underlines this franchise’s strengths but also emphasises its considerable limitations.

Keanu Reeves and director Chad Stahelski premiered "John Wick: Chapter 4" at the SXSW Film Festival in Austin.

“I have a cameo in ‘Ballerina,’ that’s true.” “I really — I age. “He had the suit back on and it was the first time we were back together in three years. [SXSW](https://variety.com/t/sxsw/) Film Festival premiere of “ [John Wick: Chapter 4](https://variety.com/t/john-wick-chapter-4/)” was a rousing success — and that’s before the film had even started. “You guys are amazing,” Reeves said. You guys are fucking awesome.”

In John Wick Chapter 4, Keanu Reeves punches hard at the High Table, but the fights don't gel into a cohesive whole. Read our review here.

Beyond the typical “offering every hitman in the universe multiple millions of dollars,” he’s collected an eclectic group of rogues to snatch Wick or get snatched themselves, including blind swordsman and Wick’s old friend Caine (the always delightful [Donnie Yen](https://consequence.net/tag/donnie-yen/)) and the dog-loving, mysterious marksman Tracker (Shamier Anderson). [Bill Skarsgård](https://consequence.net/tag/bill-skarsgard/), doing unfortunate accent work), The High Table’s foppish frontman who ain’t afraid to use and destroy anyone or anything to get what he wants — the head of Mr. The prolifically murderous hitman ( [Keanu Reeves](https://consequence.net/tag/keanu-reeves), of course) has found himself embroiled in another mega-scaled battle of 3D chess, where the royal pieces belong to a nefarious criminal organization called The High Table, and the pawns are a bunch of jabronis we have fun watching John Wick obliterate.

PARIS: Keanu Reeves is back with the fourth chapter of his megahit gun-frenzy franchise 'John Wick' next week.

they're almost at war with each other, but they're also connected," Reeves said. I don't know," he said. PARIS: Keanu Reeves is back with the fourth chapter of his megahit gun-frenzy franchise "John Wick" next week.