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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Jen Yamato

2 action icons and a pop star take 'John Wick 4' to new heights

No Hollywood franchise is doing ballistic, balletic, bone-crunching fight action better than the "John Wick" series — and in its newest installment, a murderer's row of talent joins Keanu Reeves to take the hit-man saga to the next level.

Fleshing out the western- and jidaigeki-influenced underworld of "John Wick: Chapter 4" as the titular man in black ramps up the body count in his quest for vengeance, stuntman-turned-director Chad Stahelski tapped a bounty of top international action stars to complicate his antihero's journey.

Many of the 169-minute sequel's best sequences, however, belong to a trio of faces who are new to the franchise — some of whom could return to the ever-expanding Wick-verse.

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