When best-of-the-year clips packages are assembled at the end of 2023, the main question is going to be which of the astonishing sequences in "John Wick: Chapter 4" to include.
Is it the brutal-but-hilarious one that makes use of all 270 steps to the Sacre Coeur basilica in Paris? Is it the one that's shot from overhead while a bunch of guys stalk the rooms of a swank mansion, blasting flames at one another? Is it the shootout during a rave where the frenzied participants keep boogying around the corpses piling up on the dance floor? Is it the massacre whose participants stab one another while trying to avoid cars rocketing around the circular drive at the Arc de Triomphe?
"Chapter 4" is its own greatest hits, with one breathless, inventive action sequence after another. And it's not just that it's exciting. It also stands a good chance of being the most beautiful movie of 2023.
