‘John Wick 4’ hunts down massive, franchise-best opening
LA TimesLionsgate’s “John Wick: Chapter 4” dominated the domestic box office this weekend with $73.5 million, according to studio estimates — a record-high debut for the action franchise starring Keanu Reeves. “This is John Wick gone global; it’s ‘The Wick Ultimatum,’” Times film critic Justin Chang writes. Even by series standards, it’s an astonishingly staged and sustained panorama of violence.. Enjoyable as it is, all this maximalist showmanship can feel antithetical to the first film’s sleek, witty economy.” Shortly before the film reached theaters, Reeves and Stahelski dedicated “John Wick: Chapter 4” to Reddick, who died March 17 at his home in Los Angeles. “Toward the end, ‘The Lost King’ reveals a distinctly British obsession with royalty and propriety that doesn’t always translate with the same reverence abroad,” writes film critic Katie Walsh for Tribune News Service.