Without a doubt, one of my favorite parts in all the John Wick series. He is so accurate and brutal with knives 🔪. And the way he rebuilt a revolver to match the bullet he got under pressure like that…damn dude.
Yeah, he likely faked his death in Chapter 4 so he could retire peacefully. Alive or dead though, I imagine Chapter 4 is Wicks last appearance as the main character of the franchise.
One detail that I always loved about the knife throwing bit. Both John and his opponents throw a bunch that just bounce off. Choreographers and director could have easily had them be immediately proficient at anything they pick up and do engage with, but it's such a refreshing touch to see that yeah, and especially in the heat of the moment like this, even master assassins like these guys and John Wick himself won't always nail every hit.
He's also a fight coordinator and trainer! He trained most of the Dune cast in swordplay, and I imagine he was also one of Keanu's many trainers as well
Display guns are never functional. They always have pieces missing or swapped so people can’t steal them and shoot someone. John was swapping the functional parts to get a working gun so he could kill at least one of the guys with a bullet and save himself a bit of effort. (Considering how long it takes to kill the rest in a melee, it was worth it)
I dont get it. He already found a revolver that matched the bullet he got so he decided to.. reassemble it to put the cylinder to another revolver? Why didn't he just use the revolver that matched the bullet in the first place?
From a comment in another video: Detailed explanation: He checks the displays and sees mostly non-functional Replica Revolvers, which is quite usual for a museum (proof later). As all of the Guns are Replicas or historical weapons made non-functional. Museums have no ready to shoot firearms in just a display, for safety reasons! He picks up a historical Remington 1875 but notices that it's the wrong caliber cylinder for the .44-40 cartridge he picked. He then takes another historical Remington 1875, removes the cylinder from it, detaches the barrel from the frame and takes off the hammer, because this one has no firing pin. After removing parts from the two revolvers mentioned below, he takes the cylinder of the .44-40 Remington and puts it into the frame of the first one, then attaches an unblocked Colt 1851 Navy's barrel and an 1860 Army's hammer with a firing pin to its frame. In the take with the 1860 you can clearly see, that it's a non-firing Replica made by Denix, as evidenced by the screws and the diamond-shaped logo on the frame. So... he grabs the right cylinder, a working hammer with a firing pin, a barrel which is clear and makes himself a firing revolver from various parts of Replicas and non-functional historical weapons. Making replicas and historical weapons unusable with diffrent methods (blocked barrel, no firing pin, screws etc.) is common and depends on the manufacturer, the time the museum got the replica/historical weapon and law in the manufacturers state. So basically he is doing Gun-Lego to get a functional firearm. ;-) Please excuse any mistakes in my english - greetings from Germany! :-) PS: As mentioned, this scene is a hommage to the gun-store scene in „The Good, The Bad and the Ugly“.
Him building the gun was so fucking stupid. He chose a caliber that didn’t fit the cylinder, so he took a cylinder form a pistol that could carry that caliber and put the cylinder in a different handle and barrel yet he could’ve left that cylinder in the original pistol that he put the bullet into. This whole scene was dumb and was just meant to look smart and cool like he knew about guns
It’s a reference to a scene in a different movie. In the other movie, the cylinders are swapped. If he tried to shoot a bigger caliber through a revolver that was too small he would blow his hand up. So he needed to switch the cylinders
