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Imperfect Illusions by Vanora Lawless6/10/2023 The choreography and kinetic action in these parts is where the movie shines. This set-up leads to all sorts of bananas action scenes (and The Warriors references), with fights in the middle of moving traffic, glass-filled display rooms, and up a comically endless flight of stairs. Wick is hiding from the heaps of enemies he made in the previous three films and has to shoot his way across multiple countries and through the streets of Paris to get to a church for a big duel. Like the previous three Wick outings, John Wick 4 is an ultra violent gun-fu spectacle mixing gorgeously filmed action set pieces and cinematography with a surreal, ever-expanding criminal underworld mythology. This one’s a bit hit and miss for me but still worth recommending. But speaking of nerds, one of the main characters looked exactly like the ranger I played in a long-running D&D campaign and this brought me much joy. There are plenty of D&D in-jokes (having characters fail their actions was a particular highlight) but the story of a group of thieves working together to do a heist/save a daughter is broad enough that I think you can enjoy it without being a nerd. Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thievesĭungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is exactly what it needs to be: silly, comfortingly predictable, and full of beautiful, charismatic people going on a quest.
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