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Shouldn\u2019t\u2019a killed his dog. <\/em>John Wick: Chapter 4 (now streaming on Hulu<\/a>, in addition to streaming on VOD services like Amazon Prime Video<\/a>) is the continuing story of a man with a thing for vengeance. He\u2019s also a pretty decent marksman. There\u2019s more to it, with the world-building and mythology of the overarching context, but none of it is as important as John Wick\u2019s singular focus. What\u2019s crucial here isn\u2019t the why but the how \u2013 and how! \u2013 of the <\/em>Wick films, with which stuntman-turned-director Chad Stahelski has used to elevate action movies from popcorn fodder to art, a superbly violent ballet of brutality. And audiences have followed him and fully committed star Keanu Reeves, with each film garnering larger audiences, <\/em>Chapter 4 topping them all with a $427 million worldwide box office take. Of course, it gets into more of the franchise mythology, which forms a nifty basis for the stuff we\u2019re here for, namely, the gun-fu, and to marvel at the durability of the titular action hero, and Reeves himself.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The Gist:<\/strong> FIST. FIST. FIST. John Wick (Reeves) is training and the thing he\u2019s punching is bloody from his knuckles. Wick is \u2013 get this \u2013 readying himself to kill someone. Go figure. The sun burns, the world turns, the frigid unfeeling and indifferent vacuum of space yawns into infinity, and John Wick kills. The first man he kills today is the Elder, provoking the rage of the High Table, which I believe is a secret society of some type that runs the world, but it doesn\u2019t matter, because the group has it out for Wick and will assign a haughty and lubricious tea-sipping Frenchman known as the Marquis (Bill Skarsgard) to send a million-zillion men to Wick so that Wick may kill them. Aha! Yes, that\u2019s the whole of everything that matters \u2013 the million-zillion hopeless men who are about to die in creative, inventive, nasty and often rather amusing ways.<\/p>\n

I could sit here and describe how Wick uses nunchaku and a pistol to fend off one guy and then a second guy so he may headshot a third guy and go back to the first guy and fend him off then fend off the second guy then headshot the first guy then finish off the second guy, until he runs into another batch of guys. Some of the guys are head-to-toe armored, even their faces, so it\u2019s not always easy, but Wick is hard, hard as a motherf\u2014er gets, and he can take them all out. He has a bulletproof three-piece suit, plenty of ammo and the unceasing will of glacial motion or plate tectonics, maybe even time itself. He. Is. Un. Stopp. Able. There\u2019s a sequence set near the Arc de Triomphe where he \u2013 get this \u2013 fights and kills some bad guys, in the midst of ceaseless traffic, and is hit by a car I-don\u2019t-know-how-many times, leading one to assume his bones are made of steel. Keanu characterizes Wick as a weary man with aching muscles and, during a climactic sequence, a joke is made of him having to use those battered and bruised muscles to climb a massive staircase. And then he subsequently tumbles all the way down them like Homer at Springfield Gorge. So he has to climb them again.<\/p>\n

Where was I? Right \u2013 I could sit here and describe all this stuff and never do it justice. Good thing there\u2019s some plot here to care about, somewhat, especially when it involves Wick\u2019s old pals Winston (the great Ian McShane) and Charon (Lance Reddick), who are targeted by the higher-ups for their allegiances to our guy. The Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne) has something to do with all this, as does Shimazu Koji (Hiroyuki Sanada) and his daughter Akira (Rina Sawayama), and the Harbinger (Clancy Brown), a guy who makes sure all the High Table\u2019s obscure bureaucratic rules and customs are followed. More interesting are Mr. Nobody (Shamier Anderson), a bounty hunter trying to extort the Marquis for big money to kill John Wick, a task that\u2019s on par with, well, I already compared Wick to time itself, which will cease only with the destruction of all reality, so let\u2019s just say Mr. Nobody has his work cut out for him. Mr. Nobody also has an awesome dog who\u2019s tough as hell and responds to the command \u201cnuts\u201d by finding the nearest bad guy and emasculating him. There\u2019s also a gent named Caine, a blind warrior played by Donnie Yen, who \u2013 wait, did they name a blind man Caine<\/em>? Yes, they did. He\u2019s an old friend of John Wick who\u2019s now a foe of John Wick, and it perhaps goes without saying that being the former is far healthier than being the latter. Meanwhile, who\u2019s taking care of John Wick\u2019s dog? Sounds like a spinoff to me: John Wick\u2019s Dogsitter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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