“John Wick IV” already in theaters promises to be one of the movies of the year. It’s not so surprising how the saga has grown from a small indie project to a global franchise. After all, the third was the first to have a wide theatrical release in Spain and it wasn’t until the fourth that the Keanu Reeves phenomenon was experienced as a true blockbuster premiere.
“John Wick IV” is about three hours of continuous explosive action. John Wick, a former murderer who is not allowed to leave in peace, continues to get him to leave alone. Of course, the price that was on his head was not removed from the second installment. The fourth installment begins with Marquis Vincent Gramont (Bill Skarsgard), a senior member of the High Council, joining the forces of Cain (in the legendary Doonie Ven military film), a blind and retired assassin, to stand up to his old friend John. He does this by threatening to kill his violinist daughter.
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Caine doesn’t kill Wick in Osaka thanks to Koji (Hiroyuki Sanada) and his daughter Akira (Rina Sawayama). Akira and Caine will be the protagonists of John Wick IV’s post-credits scene, but we’ll leave that for later. Back in New York, Winston tells Wick that if he challenges the Marquis to a duel and wins, he will be released from his contract forever. But Wick can only duel if he belongs to one of the organized crime families. In order for Ruska to join Rome, Wick must eliminate Killa (Scott Adkins), another member of the High Council. After completing this little tour, which could have been a movie in itself, Wick manages to catch up with the marquis. If Wick wins, he wins freedom and Winston is in charge of New York City when it is rebuilt. If he loses, Wick and Winston will die. And then came the end of John Wick IV.
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John Wick’s goal is to reach the indicated location in time. But then again, Mark makes sure he’s allowed all his other thugs to be Wick in town.
Badly injured, Caine helps Wick and fights to the finish line. At Sacré-Cœur, Wick and Caine are both injured in the duel. Marquis takes advantage and goes to finish off the wounded John Wick, but is then shot in the head. It turns out that in their duel, Wick does not even touch the arrow, but saving the enemy’s bullet. Both Wick and Caine are free but Wick does not resist his injuries. Here he descends the stairs and dreams of his late wife Helen (Bridget Moynaham). It is from this that we hear what his head wants to say “John Wick, a lovely man” (John Wick, a most loving man). John Wick closes his eyes and the screen goes black…
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We see Winston and Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne) visiting the grave with the inscription we saw. Fishburne’s character asks if Wick is in heaven or hell, and Winston replies “Who knows.” But the key to that answer is the smile on Winston’s face. This is what feeds accounts everywhere. Yes, we saw John Wick dead and even his friends visiting his grave.
It’s obvious that he laughs and tells John Wick that his death could have been faked with Winston’s help so that they would finally leave him alone. Everything remains as a possibility, depending on whether you want to make John Wick 5 or not. Here’s how director Chad Stahelski spoke about the ending to The Hollywood Reporter:
In our minds, Keanu and I become present. Let us give John Wick a rest. Actually, I have a study plan. If everyone loves and raves, we will easily think about changing our minds. It was a different thing for a funeral, and we wanted to be a little more private. That’s why you see the pup looking up at the end. We were open to the attempts of both terminations, because Keanu and Modo wanted to make a good movie. We just wanted to feel that he was very happy. So we did a screening test, and the audience was more excited about the ending we chose.
That is to say, to believe that John Wick, dead or alive, depends on us, like Schroginder’s cat.
