Since it's quite clear that the John Wick franchise will not be stopped by Keanu Reeves choosing to make a dignified exit or declining popularity, the fourth instalment making even more sponds than its predecessors, only artistic discrimination could be hoped to put it out of its misery. But since the series never had any of that to begin with, that would be to hope in vain. The bodycount this time is around 140, meaning no room for even the most cursory of plots. Every assassin anywhere he goes wants to kill Wick and so he kills everyone instead, and it's quite remarkably boring. Bullets are of as much use as against zombies, since only a bullet to the brain will finish anyone off for good, and being hit by cars or falling from great heights is just an inconvenience. It shouldn't be so hard to grasp that there can be no real excitement without a real threat.
3/10
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