John Wick: Chapter 4 - Movie Reviews (2024)

Few sequels can one-up their predecessors.

Full Review | Sep 20, 2024

Nearly three hours of bone-crushing, elegantly choreographed violence: this is what great action movies are made of.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 18, 2024

As much as John Wick: Chapter 4 borrows from the previous films, its immense action set-pieces and general absurdity make this a wholly worthy entry and a fantastic cinematic spectacle.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 3, 2024

Part of the movie’s appeal can be traced to the class warfare on display. In Wick’s tired eyes and battered body, we see a symbol of the worker, whose labor is controlled by arbitrary rules and used to prop an indulgent and empty culture.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 20, 2024

It’s astounding how this franchise has steadily improved with each instalment, and this time around, Stahelski and co. laid all their cards down on the table and crafted an action masterpiece.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | Jul 12, 2024

The resonant boom of John Wick punching shakes up the auditorium; it is enough to make you jump right out of your seat. But it serves another fundamental purpose: to acclimatize you with the heavy-handed vibe of what’s about to follow.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 9, 2024

At some point, the original premise of the franchise– “if the worst man in existence found salvation”– runs its course and the saved becomes damned again.

Full Review | Jul 7, 2024

With Chapter 4, by thine own hand, Stahelski and Reeves have cemented John Wick as one of the greatest action franchises in cinematic history.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 5, 2024

What once felt like a breath of fresh air now reeks of mildew. It’s an aggressive feat of over-engineered popcorn violence that is either a mockery of its existence or, as the film says, a ghost seeking a graveyard.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 3, 2024

Chad Stahelski’s opera of violence is one of the most artistically stirring movies of 2023.

Full Review | Mar 5, 2024

The John Wick universe is a complex blend of gun violence, vague religious imagery, and some of the best dog actors around, and the fourth installment brought the action to a new level.

Full Review | Jan 13, 2024

John Wick: Chapter 4 really is a visual spectacular. With amazing fight sequences and a storyline that never signposts or becomes predictable this film is a film that deserves more credit than most will give it.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 19, 2023

Yes, Donnie Yen plays another blind character (my theory is that filmmakers do this because nobody would buy that a Donnie Yen with two functioning eyes could ever lose a fight).

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2023

You might have seen some of it before, but it has never been as big and brash as it is in this chapter... an action epic for the ages.

Full Review | Sep 6, 2023

Genuine cinematic poetry.

Full Review | Sep 3, 2023

John Wick 4 is the ultimate action movie.

Full Review | Aug 16, 2023

The action is fluid and all-consuming and makes it easy to overlook some of the story’s shortcomings (too many new threads, not so seamlessly woven in).

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 16, 2023

It is an incredible ride that is designed to entertain from the opening moments and the best way to enjoy it is to just hang on.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 9, 2023

This series always did a stellar job of not turning John Wick into a robotic machine, and Reeves always maintained a depth to this haunted character. The tenderness of a classically Reeves-ian performance is what is missing in John Wick: Chapter 4.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 9, 2023

They understand that it is the characters, the humour, and the jaw-dropping action that keeps us coming back for more. And as long as they keep this up, even in the form of spin-offs, audiences will continue to lap it up.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 29, 2023