Address: Chad Stahelski
artists: Keanu ReevesDonnie YenIan McShane
Year: 2023
Premiere: 3/24/23
★★★★
In the first sequence, without precedent, John Wick chases several hitmen on horseback through the Arabian desert. In front of the images is a beautiful three dots, borrowed from ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, emerging from the flame of a match that goes out towards sunrise in the desert.
Chad Stahelski, co-director of the first and only signing of the other three parts of the Wick saga, continues to shoot lavish action sequences with the same choreographic physicality that crowns the footage and hand-to-hand combat with one or more close-ups. who gave an identification mark to those who might best action series in contemporary cinema. And as with the previous ones, this one does not overload the plot with transcendent meditations on the plight of this assassin who was excommunicated and persecuted by all the mercenaries of the organization known as Alta Mesa. Stahelski interrupts, but in this case he spends more time. Good use of time. “John Wick 4” takes about three hoursbut they pass as fluently as before.
Keanu Reeves split up sullen and ‘Melvillian’ hero The character of the new thriller and archaic protagonist in the equally violent comic series ‘BRZRKR’, which he created and wrote the screenplay, works with the same precision as the hourglass that initially marks the remaining time for him and the consultant of one of the hotels. organization. Once the sand falls, the story takes on a dizzying cruising pace without stalling or fainting. It’s an empty, synthetic, epidermal story, and yet so fascinating.