Look, let’s just put all our cards on the (high) table. Yes, John Wick: Chapter 4 is 169 minutes long. Any one of its many (many) set pieces contains more action all by itself than most entire movies. This thing ain’t a “chapter.” It’s a whole damn book — a glorious, nightmarish, biblical compendium of all manners of asskickery.

Full review at ScreenCrush. (And after you see the movie, here’s my interview with Chad Stahelski that’s JUST about the stairwell scene that I am sure will go down in history as one of the all-time great moments in action cinema.)