Yes, it happened. John Wick is no more and perhaps with good riddance. Unfortunately not so for Lance Reddick who played Charon, the concierge of the Continental, who passed away in real life seven days before this movie's general release in the United States. His role continued to be one of the most consistent, entertaining as well as poignant ones of the entire series besides Wick's wife, including this movie. While the beginning slower scenes and a few scenes towards the end of the movie written in to evoke as some sort of effort to make this movie more substantive and balanced but for the most part, this movie was overloaded with excessive violent action that eventually seemed to go on and on and on forever in a sort of parody, video-action game becoming more and more redundant, fantastically unbelievable. And boring. The later half of the movie made the major mistake of using a duel format to end the movie with perhaps predictable results for some people instead of requiring that Wick face spectacular and worthy opponents from each one of the other members of the High Table each with their special fantastic skills that would have enabled John Wick show off more exciting, different ways to fight one and one instead of the overused Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003) fantastic fighting style of Uma Thurman's slaughterhouse scene. This movie is one that is better avoided in order to not risk being disappointed.
Review of John Wick: Chapter 4
