{"id":15791,"date":"2023-07-21T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T00:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15791"},"modified":"2023-07-16T14:42:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T18:42:48","slug":"john-wick-chapter-4-2023-chad-stahelski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15791","title":{"rendered":"John Wick Chapter 4 (2023, Chad Stahelski)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JW kills some guys in desert, incl The Elder.  Whitebeard Harbinger Clancy &#8220;Mr. Krabs&#8221; Brown tells McShane the hotel has been condemned, then the Marquis kills Cedric Daniels, blows the place up, and sends blind swordsman Caine after JW.  Every scene dramatically drawn out &#8211; you get the sense that everyone is playing their assigned role according to fate, except for this fuckin&#8217; Marquis guy, who is annoying and evil.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/wickfour1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The Osaka hotel goes down next, Hiroyuki Sanada in charge and his daughter Rina Sawayama in the Cedric concierge role, while a dog-loving bounty hunter called Nobody sits back, waiting for the bounty to get high enough to go after JW.  Deals are made: Marquis fucks up Nobody&#8217;s hand (why would you do this to a hired assassin) and gets him after Wick, and JW agrees to take on a big metal-teethed dude named Killa to get back into his Russian family&#8217;s graces so he can duel the baddie.  RIP the big baddie and also Wick &#8211; happily, this movie was much better than <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13352\">part 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/wickfour3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/wickfour2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>As the Marquis, Bill is the campy Skarsg\u00e5rd, who gets murdered in <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15367\">Barbarian<\/a><\/em> before the even campier Justin Long appears.  Blind Donnie Yen was in the <em>Ip Man<\/em> series and some stuff I&#8217;ve seen but don&#8217;t remember (<em>Iron Monkey<\/em> is due a rewatch).  As &#8220;Nobody&#8221; (a <em>Ghost Dog<\/em> reference), Shamier Anderson, who has been in unrelated movies named <em>Bruised<\/em> and <em>Bruiser<\/em>.  The guy with the metal teeth, that&#8217;s Scott Adkins, the dude you all love so much?  Y&#8217;all really want me to sit through a Jean-Claude Van Damme sequel to see more of this guy?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/wickfour4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JW kills some guys in desert, incl The Elder. Whitebeard Harbinger Clancy &#8220;Mr. Krabs&#8221; Brown tells McShane the hotel has been condemned, then the Marquis kills Cedric Daniels, blows the place up, and sends blind swordsman Caine after JW. Every scene dramatically drawn out &#8211; you get the sense that everyone is playing their assigned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,2484,825,3140,804,36,2485,3139,181],"class_list":["post-15791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-chad-stahelski","tag-dog","tag-donnie-yen","tag-hitman","tag-japan","tag-keanu-reeves","tag-scott-adkins","tag-sequel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15791"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15814,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15791\/revisions\/15814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}