In the cinema, the last episode of the John Wick
saga has just been released
.
After surviving his fall from the roof of the Continental hotel, at the end of the third film, the antihero played by Keanu Reeves makes his comeback.
This time, John Wick has found a way to defeat the criminal organization known as the High Table.
Unsurprisingly, the task looks more complicated than expected.
Before gaining his freedom, he must face a new enemy, still as powerful, who transforms John's allies into real adversaries.
"Too long"
,
"epic", "impressively virtuoso", "stupid"
... If opinions differ as to this new episode of
John Wick
, all agree that the film offers viewers three hours of intense action.
Action
“until more thirsty”
For this fourth chapter,
“Chad Stahelski did not do things by halves
,” enthuses Olivier Delcroix, journalist at Le
Figaro
.
He played the card of fun, black humor and cartoonish violence until he was more thirsty.
The film is quite simply
"a whirlwind of incessant fighting"
, revealing Keanu Reeves as a
"taciturn and silent hero"
, continues Olivier.
The film is
“a little too long”
but
“the rhythm is there”
and
“we never have time to get bored”
.
Parisian scenes - whether they take place around the Arc de Triomphe or down the steps of Montmartre -
“are choreographed with as much humor as imagination”
.
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In the columns of Le
Parisien
, Michel Valentin shares this opinion.
"If this
Chapter 4
shows nearly 3 hours on the clock, it's to bring in even more incredible combat and shooting scenes, including two cult sequences taking place in Paris
", he says, marveling at
“the sequence taking place around the Arc de Triomphe”,
quite simply
“dazzling”
.
Scenes
“
seen and reviewed
”
On
France Culture
, Lucile Commeaux is more moderate, judging that the film
is “a bit tired at the end”
.
The Parisian part is
"a little more laborious"
but quickly turns
"into a kind of hard-core tourist visit, an American in Paris version fight"
, she continues.
“It's
a pure action film, which doesn't try to tell anything, and that's probably for the best.
»
The newspaper
Le Point
also regrets
"the lack of imagination of the authors as to the long Parisian parenthesis, reduced to endless postcards"
and warns its readers - as well as potential spectators -, advising them to abandon
"all hope of realism"
when entering the room.
For Philippe Guedj, the John Wick
franchise
is a
“circus of excess provoking more laughter than dread”
which nevertheless managed to
“impose a new style, tone and hero”.
In short, "
all the ingredients are there and the mayonnaise definitely takes, but impossible to ignore this je-ne-sais-quoi of slight disappointment
"
.
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For
Première
,
the
“disappointment”
in question is
“this murderous, fairly redundant litany”
.
On the other hand, and as with
Mission: Impossible
, "
the repetitive aspect of
John Wick
is not a problem as long as each new film surpasses the previous one"
.
The magazine still deplores
"a character with a psychology as reduced as his dialogues",
but bows
"in the face of the energy of Keanu Reeves, more Christlike than ever, who fights like Tom Cruise against the test of time to bringing action cinema to life on a level rarely seen”
.
After all,
"if we're still there after 4 films, it's because we like it, right?"
, concludes Édouard Orozco.
