Overview
A relentless hitman battles against overwhelming odds to reclaim his freedom and confront his past.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Breakneck
- Intensity
- Extreme
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Graphic
- kinetic
- mythic
- stylish
- action movie night
- marathon viewing
What critics said
Critics broadly praised the film as an exhilarating peak of stylized action cinema, especially for its inventive choreography and visual spectacle, while noting that its lengthy runtime and thin story can be drawbacks.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The High Table, markers, formal challenges, and codes of honor structure the conflict and define the film’s crime-world mythology.
The film foregrounds long, elaborate combat set pieces involving firearms, martial arts, swords, nunchucks, and close-quarters fighting.
John Wick searches for a path to defeat the High Table and earn release from its system of obligations.
The High Table’s global hierarchy, formal duels, tailored assassins, and shadowy criminal alliances create a heightened neo-noir atmosphere.
Films like John Wick: Chapter 4, and why
The Raid 2
stylized neo-noir action, relentless gunplay, criminal underworld mythology, and highly choreographed combat
Atomic Blonde
operatic hitman violence, international criminal networks, and kinetic martial arts spectacle
Mission: Impossible – Fallout
globetrotting action thriller structure, elaborate set pieces, and a determined professional assassin protagonist
Equilibrium
stylized crime-world action, codes of honor, and charismatic lone-warrior momentum
Movie Details
- Director
- Chad Stahelski
- Release Date
- 2023-03-21
- Runtime
- 170 min
- Rating
- 7.7 / 10 (8345)
Cast
- Keanu Reeves
- Donnie Yen
- Bill Skarsgård
- Ian McShane
- Laurence Fishburne
- Lance Reddick
- Clancy Brown
- Hiroyuki Sanada
- Rina Sawayama
- Scott Adkins
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- YouTube TV, Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home, FlixFling, Spectrum On Demand, Plex
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is John Wick: Chapter 4 about?
- An excommunicated assassin wages a globe-spanning, ritual-bound war against the criminal hierarchy that controls his fate.
- What is John Wick: Chapter 4 like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of John Wick: Chapter 4 as breakneck, its intensity as extreme and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is John Wick: Chapter 4 violent?
- Yes. Ember rates the violence in John Wick: Chapter 4 as graphic.
- What did critics think of John Wick: Chapter 4?
- Critics broadly praised the film as an exhilarating peak of stylized action cinema, especially for its inventive choreography and visual spectacle, while noting that its lengthy runtime and thin story can be drawbacks.
- Which films are like John Wick: Chapter 4?
- Films with a similar feel include The Raid 2, Atomic Blonde, Mission: Impossible – Fallout, and Equilibrium.
- How long is John Wick: Chapter 4?
- John Wick: Chapter 4 runs 170 minutes.
- Where can I watch John Wick: Chapter 4?
- In United States, John Wick: Chapter 4 streams on YouTube TV, Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel.
