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John Wick: Chapter 4

a review by tmdb42690476

A beautiful woman doesn't mean a beautiful character

Ninehundredmillion (nearly a billion! obviously guarantees beautiful pictures - but does that guarantee a profound movie? No!

Since the Matrix Keanu Reeves was established as an action hero - yet he actually never delivered martial arts in a way professionals could relate to him in a way they can to Bruce Lee, Jason Stratham or Jackie Chan (who did perform their own stunts) could.

Reeves - always somehow clumsy when fighting does kind of "stagger" through his shootings and the longer the movie goes on, the more disbelief has to be suspended (like when him shooting 46 shots with one round of 24 shots on the stairs up, where he conveniently kills 26 people).

How many times he was run over I did not even bother to count, because it starts to become unbelievable by the third time.

Would you consider Reeves to be worth $39.000 for each single word like "yes" or "you" he uttered ? I don't, because it is not his charisma which saves the movie but the never-ending shooting scenes which in the end make you go to the toilet in the midst of a scene knowing that "action is inaction and profound talks are rare here".