It’s always worth remembering just how many people have tried to imitate the John Wick formula over the last four or five years and just how many of them have utterly failed at the task. Take, for example, this trailer: It’s barely two minutes and 30 seconds long, dropped earlier on Thursday presumably because it’s gonna play in front of prints of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and we can count at least four different moments that are better than the entirety of Bullet Train or Atomic Blonde. You just can’t beat Keanu at his own game, and we’re hyped as fuck for this one. So, kick your long weekend off right and watch this thing as soon as you possibly can.
Peep it:
Out of all the franchise films that probably could just be summed up with a cursory “it’s a ____ movie, you know what you’re getting into,” John Wick is probably king. We pity the person who has to try and find a way to sell a movie like this to the skeptical through a pithy two-sentence synopsis, especially when three brilliant films exist. But to honor their labor, here’s what they came up with:
“John Wick (Keanu Reeves) uncovers a path to defeating the High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.”
Let’s be real: Few of us could do any better.
Anyhow, John Wick: Chapter 4 hits theaters on March 24, and you better bet we are thrilled as fuck to see Reeves facing off against Scott Adkins. If there’s anything that gets the heart of a scumbag DTV action fan racing (and believe us, it is hard, given our diets), it’s his participation in something like this.