JOHN WICK CHAPTER 4 Ending Explained: Post Credits Scene Breakdown, TV Show Spin-off And Movie Review. We review, recap and explain the ending of the Keanu Reeves film John Wick 4. This video talks about the ending and also the post credits scene with Donnie Yen's Caine and Rina Sawayama's Akira. This video also talks about the TV show The Continental and The Ballerina.
Now the movie begins with John Wick killing The Elders replacement who tells him that the only way he will find peace is in death. This very much foreshadows the events of the ending and it also explains why John has to particpate in a duel. The High Table is described very much as being like a Hydra in that if you cut off one head another one will appear. Just in the same way that the Elder has been replaced, all the members of the High Table can be as well and thus John will run out of bullets before they run out of heads.
The movie in a way is very much about redemption and him diverting the fate that has been given to him. John is said as being someone who brings death to everything that he touches but in the end he gives Caine a new life with his daughter. This is a similar sort of thing to what Sofia had in the third film and in that we discovered that she too had a daughter that she couldn't have a life with due to the demands of the High Table.
John sees first hand how much his quest for revenge is killing his friends and in the end he realises that it all stops if he passes away which we see happen in the final few scenes. Now I will be talking about whether I think the character is actually dead or not later on but there is a lot going on in the movie that I think we have to talk about first to give context to those final few scenes.
Keanu Reeve has talked with the Hollywood reporter about what that ending really meant and there is a lot to discuss in terms of symbolism and metaphor.
The John Wick series has always been laced with the idea of mythology and this is seen in every film. Charon pulls from ancient mythology, Wick pulled Rosary beads out of a book at the start of 3, Dantes inferno was mentioned and Winston was given 7 days to get his affairs in order. John himself is based on John the Baptist and a baptism is very much seen as a cleansing in which past sins are forgotten. The first movie opened with him putting his past behind him but he was pulled back into the life.
