‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ is a long movie - but it was almost a lot longer.
’s first half, trying to figure out just how long it should be, and which scenes to include. Ultimately, he told Indiewire, “I wanted to make sure that [John Wick] was still the center of the universe, that everything always led back to him even though we were cutting away from him.”
As for how they arrived at the 169 minute version that will play in theaters starting this weekend, Orloff said the key word was “compress,” adding “I went through a pass where anytime someone repeated an idea they had already expressed, I cut it out. No repeated ideas.”as I wrote in my review... For all the complaints this movie is sure to encounter for its over-the-top runtime, it suits the film, which is also about the passage of time. An early scene hinges on the use of a comically oversized hourglass. Later, a big action sequence takes place around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, which John Wick circles in a muscle car like the swooping hands of a clock. A few scenes later, John frantically checks his own wristwatch over and over as he races to an important meeting.
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