John Wick: Chapter 4 - Keanu Reeves film lands franchise's best reviews

John Wick is backmost - and Keanu Reeves' ex-hitman seems to beryllium improving with age, with his instrumentality for a 4th instalment earning the enactment thriller franchise its champion reviews truthful far.

Rotten Tomatoes, which awards scores based connected critics' views, awarded John Wick: Chapter 4 a precise affirmative 94%.

The 2nd and 3rd films some scored 89%, portion 2014's archetypal got 86%.

The Hollywood Reporter said Chapter 4 "outdoes its formidable predecessors successful astir each respect".

The film, which comes retired connected Friday, sees Wick being pursued by planetary transgression organisation the High Table.

"JW4 is going to beryllium immense and, for me, it's easy the astir satisfying introduction of the lot," she added.

Rolling Stone's David Fear said no-one could person predicted successful 2014 that Wick would "revolutionize American enactment movies", calling the movie bid "deliriously pleasurable".

It has "established itself arsenic the astir reliable movie franchise this broadside of Mission: Impossible", helium added.

The Hollywood Reporter's Frank Scheck called the caller section "pure, over-the-top enactment spectacle", adding: "Bigger, badder, bolder, longer, and featuring astir much spectacular acceptable pieces than 1 movie tin comfortably handle, this epic enactment movie practically redefines the stakes.

"Reeves commits truthful thoroughly to the role's insane carnal demands that helium should get an award, if not for acting, past simply surviving."

"Never 1 to upstage his chap actors, helium succeeds, arsenic fewer movie stars could, astatine some drafting and deflecting the camera's attention."

Reeves, who has erstwhile starred successful hits similar the Matrix films, Point Break and Speed, precocious told ABC News it was "cool" and "kind" for immoderate radical to beryllium describing the latest movie arsenic 1 of the top enactment movies of each time.

Reeves told Deadline connected the reddish carpet astatine the film's US premiere connected Monday: "Lance was a beauteous person, [a] peculiar artist, a antheral of grace and dignity, and specified a passionateness for his craft.

"And to person the accidental to enactment with him implicit 10 years and 4 films is thing that is precise peculiar to maine and it sucks he's not here."

In his review, USA Today's Brian Truitt wrote: "The precocious Lance Reddick, who made everything helium was successful better, provides omniscient words yet again arsenic Winston's right-hand concierge Charon."

Despite the film's fantabulous Rotten Tomatoes rating, not each critics liked it.

"In the side-quest-clogged communicative arsenic successful the virtuosic combat sequences that acold overstay their welcome, a spectator starts to consciousness the quality betwixt maximalism and simply having a batch of stuff, determination astir the 3rd hr and mostly successful our glutes."

Empire's Alex Godfrey said it was "relentlessly violent", adding: "It's each a spot much. Yes, it's a emotion missive to enactment cinema, but truthful overmuch truthful that enactment cinema mightiness privation to instrumentality retired a restraining order."

But helium did add: "Reeves fundamentally operates with 1 registry (mythologically gruff). But past again, that's what this bid is, and adjacent with that constrictive remit, Reeves is ceaselessly charismatic."