luke_bale

There really is nothing to gripe about here, with all the garbage coming out we have to support great movie making when the opportunity arises.

I was expecting a low key, low budget spin off and what I got was the scale of John Wick 5, the action is absolutely relentless and so well made, conceived and filmed. The stunts with taking knocks and falls and with fire is just on another level, the locations are stunning, do yourself a favour, take the opportunity to watch this on the big screen!

If you are a fan of John Wick, action, martial arts movies, you're gonna love it! Fights are brutal including hammers, knives, guns, ice skates, picks, grenades and flame throwers. Yes it might be over the top at times but you have to appreciate the time and effort that goes into putting such a spectacle on screen, especially when compared with the lack of effort and creativity in everything else coming out nowadays.

Why in 2025 are we still seeing this poorly shot, poorly edited nonsense. If you don't know how to film a fight scene don't make a martial arts action movie. The camera was either to close up to see what anyone is doing or the shots are so heavily edited that most kicks start half way through. Don't cast jackie chan if you won't even show what he's doing. And why dear God was so much cgi used of people spinning around, every other fight or training scene featured cgi spinning, I haven't seen that much cgi spinning since yoda fighting count duku.

Story and characters were not a total loss, jackie chan had more personality in this one than the last, great to see Ralph and even Johnny make a small appearance. But please dear God use a crew who can film and edit a fight scene next time.

I admit expectations were high. There is a lot of criticism around the animation though I'm not entirely sure why. For Western style animation it looks pretty good and complaints about face design don't seem entirely fair, they mostly seem to capture the likeness of the real people very well.

The main problem here is they tried to write a story that would encompass all of the main characters rather than try to write an interesting story. Which is why we have this, time hop, multiverse, fan service movie.

The dialogue is bland, each new scene we time hop to is bland, half way through I started scrolling through my phone. I preordered the blu ray, I'm all for supporting this beloved franchise but this will sit on a shelf never to be watched again.