Oliver Stone Calls JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 4 "Disgusting Beyond Belief"

Director Oliver Stone (Natural Born Killers, Platoon, JKF) is not a fan of John Wick: Chapter 4. In fact, he hated the movie! While the movie was met with rave reviews from critics and audiences enjoyed the hell out of the outlandish action movie, Stone slammed it in a recent interview with Variety calling it “disgusting beyond belief.” Here’s what he said:

“I saw John Wick 4 on the plane. Talk about volume. I think the film is disgusting beyond belief. Disgusting. I don’t know what people are thinking. Maybe I was watching G.I. Joe when I was a kid. But [Keanu Reeves] kills, what, three, four hundred people in the fucking movie. And as a combat veteran, I gotta tell you, not one of them is believable. I realize it’s a movie, but it’s become a video game more than a movie.”

He went on to explain that he ended up getting bored with it, saying:

“It’s lost touch with reality. The audience perhaps likes the video game. But I get bored by it. How many cars can crash? How many stunts can you do? What’s the difference between Fast and Furious and some other film? It’s just one thing after another. Whether it’s a super-human Marvel character or just a human being like John Wick, it doesn’t make any difference. It’s not believable.”

The directors have said multiple times that the story of John Wick is 100% pure fantasy and they try to establish that, but I guess some people just aren’t into those kinds of films. It’s a super fun movie filled with some crazy over-the-top action that audiences have a blast watching! It’s too bad that Stone couldn’t enjoy it. But, he did watch it on an airplane without the energy of the audience around him.