Back to the Box Office - John Wick: Chapter 4 Review

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You get more out of life when
you go out to a movie and no

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on with the show. Hello everybody, and welcome back to the box office.

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Brought to you by a Film by
Podcast. I'm Jeff Johnson, I'm

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David Burns. David, are you
ready to deliver our terms to the high

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table? Yeah? In that case, let's talk about john Wick Chapter four.

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Do you think your wife can hear
you? Hawai Paula? Maybe I'm

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you're going to die? Maybe?
No. Challenge him to single combat.

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I'm gonna lose some way out,
but I will train out, amen.

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John Wick Chapter four March. All
right, it's Chapter four, brought to

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you by stuntman turned director Chad Stahelski. And I gotta say, David,

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I really feel like the last two
movies have just been getting us ready.

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It's been they've been training us for
Chapter four. I think you are correct

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with that, because this one was
crazy. When it comes to the action

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sequences and filmed for here while non
stop action non stop, I mean we're

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taking short, short, short breaths
right, catching our breath before we are

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we are just thrown and I mean
literally thrown into another epic moment. An

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action sequence where it's just it's off
the wall. It's just it's balls to

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the wall excitement every turn in John
Wick chapter four. Yeah, it's it's

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non stop. You're right, man, we got to talk about some of

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our some of the main players here. So Keanu Reeves aka America's Treasure aka

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nicest guy in America, guy,
the coolest guy in America. He's back

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as John Wick, and he has
not skipped a beat. Man he I

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mean, this is the fourth one
and he's just not slowing down. No,

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not at all. Takes takes a
beating and keeps on taking man.

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Yeah, he absolutely does. We
do know. Uh chat Stahelski did mention

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recently. If you're wondering about the
timeline, how long does does this movie

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take? Like, you know,
where are we at in the in the

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in John's life, basically, chapters
one through three take it's like a week

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and a half basically. Uh,
and then at the you know, between

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three and four, it's been about
six months. So we're we're giving we're

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giving John a bit of a chance
to rest up before he gets, you

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know, thrown into you know,
these incredible moments. He needed it,

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he did, he did. But
no, Keano is just NonStop. He's

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he's he's fantastic in this, uh
returning once again. We got Laurence Fishburne

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as the Bowery King, you got, you got Ian McShane as Winston.

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Who is you know, just amazing, always amazing. Yeah, and I

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hate to say, uh the late
Lance Reddick as uh Sear that that was

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tough. I'll tell you just to
see him on screen and knowing it was

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tough, it was it was,
But uh tell you what's not tough as

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Winston Winston. I'll tell you what's
not tough seeing is Winston. Uh.

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Ian McShane is really developing this character. And again this is a this is

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a quick spoiler free review, so
we won't say a whole lot, but

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we will I will say this.
I feel like this is like his best

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moment, like his best performance as
character. We've given him a lot in

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this movie, and UH love Ian
McShane. He's got some really good lines

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in this that have a lot of
deep meaning throughout this movie. Yeah.

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Well, you know, speaking of
deep meaning, I love the fact that,

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uh that John Wick sums up the
whole his whole purpose, uh,

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his whole purpose, why he's he's
on this quest why he's he's doing what

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he's doing. Uh, And Dave, do you know what I'm talking about?

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He sums up everything with two words, and you know, I don't

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almost say anything else because you know
the scene I'm talking about. But when

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when that happened, I was like, you know what, this is why

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we're here, This is why John
wick is just keeps pushing and just won't

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stop. So I love that about
it. Newcomers, you got Clancy Brown

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as the Harbinger, who was one
of the coolest characters in this uh this

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world as it were, Bill scars
Guard as the Marquee, the new bad

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guy that the heavy right, who
always plays a great bad guy, always

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plays a great bad guy. H
Donnie Yen as Kane, another a fellow

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assassin who is spectacular in the movie
Donnie's Fantastic. We cannot get enough Donnie

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in this movie Noway, every time
he wasn't on screen, I was like,

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where's Donniean, what's exactly when are
we gonna get more of him?

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And I have talked about this guy
several times on a Film by podcast.

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Um here are Yoki Sonata? Isn't
this plan in Shimazu? Damn this guy's

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awesome. You just love watching him
on screen because he's just so smooth in

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his performance. I watching him.
Yeah, Hollywood, please more. How

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are Yuki Sonata? Please? Please
please? Uh and please let's talk about

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this film. Let's let's you know, you what do you want to start?

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You want to talk about the uh
the epic action sequences? Where do

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you begin with this movie? I
mean the action sequences are crazy good.

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Um, you know. I mean
there's one scene that I think when a

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little too long, but other than
that, I mean it is over the

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hop action uh choreographed extremely well.
And the stunt work in this wow,

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I know the scene you're talking about
as far as going on, And it's

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not that it's it's by no means
is it boring. It's just it exhausts

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you. You're worn out. Yeah, um, but I gotta talk like,

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you know, the the stunts.
You know, when you have a

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director that was a stunt man,
uh grow you know coming through Hollywood,

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you know that his his stunt sequences
are going to be top notch, right

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they have to be, Yeah,
they have to be. But also the

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picture, you know, the film
itself just has to be top notch to

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match that I think Dan lost in
his cinematography on this absolutely gorgeous it is.

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I mean I love the lighting and
in the coloring that they did with

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the film in this. I loved
it. His palate of color, Dave

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yes. If you know, it's
not ruining anything. It's a lot of

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the sun. If you notice that
a lot of sun rays and like that,

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the sun rising, sunsetting everything.
I love that it was so well

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done. Yeah, his natural lighting
is fantastic. But also in the in

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the CD underworld where we're in these
clubs and uh, all the neon,

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it's just you're in there's moments where
you're just bathed in in this rich neon

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color. Uh. That makes the
secret the fight sequences. It does.

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And there there's one thing that I
do not want to ruin. And you

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knew what I'm talking about, Oh, I know, being with the amazing

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camera work that you're just like,
holy crap, that is really cool.

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How did they do that? Yeah, there's just there's some just a mind

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blowing uh cinematography in this in this
film. Absolutely love it. Love the

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fact, you know, for those
of you that are out there and you're

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like, how much further can this
story go like, you know, the

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High Table has condemned him, he's
excommunicado, he's you know, he's being

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hunted down. It still has somewhere
to go, and it has somewhere smart

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to go, right as it?
Well absolutely yeah, yeah. What started

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off as a simple revenge story in
John Wick chapter one has really evolved into

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this world building story which is just
fantastic. And these characters like the Harbager,

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like Clancy Clancy Brown's Harbager character,
Um, the Mark, the Marquis

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h even even Ian McShane, you
know his his his character Winston. I

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just I want more of this uh
this world. I want more of this

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story. It's funny that you mentioned
that, because when you're watching this,

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all the characters are so strong that
you want to know their backstory. You

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want to know where their story is
going. And even so much is involved

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with what else is going on in
that environment, that world that you want

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to explore that right, absolutely,
you want to explore it. Uh So

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I'll just ask you, Dave.
I think it's a simple. I think

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we already know where what you're gonna
say, but uh, let's do this

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see it, stream it or skip
it with the camera work with the stunt

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work. See it, absolutely,
see it. I don't care what what

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tickles your fancy. If it's the
the fight sequences, if it's the story,

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if it's the cinematography, if it's
the music. Can we do you

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want to talk real quick? You
know, I know we're we're gonna jump

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backwards here, but the music by
Tyler Bates and Joel J. Richard,

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Yeah, you have to talk about
that because it goes so well with the

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action sequences of what you're seeing on
screen that it just has that beat,

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that that music that just blends so
well with action sequences. It was perfect.

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It does the the the uh,
the the orchestral sound that we get

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throughout the whole movie. And then
added that you added some some just a

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killer soundtrack by some some just awesome
bands. Yeah, see it for that,

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see it, you know, see
it for see it for Kanu.

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Yeah. Absolutely, come on,
he's the nicest guy in the world,

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go go help. Yeah, he's
he's the nicest guy ever. So yeah,

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I definitely say see it. See
it now, see it in a

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theater with with great sound, with
with great picture quality. I can't wait

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to see it again. Dave,
I agree, same well, that'll about

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do it for us. Uh.
Next time we join you, we'll be

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entering a new world, a world
filled with kopas and fireballs and and plumbers.

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Right, Dave who, I'll buy
the tickets, and I'll buy the

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popcorn. Maybe decers it dancy count
the moment, dec I can't see America and