What a wonderful ending with a powerful message to the high table - "Everything is secured, Power is restored at the continental with the new manager."
I love how this shows just how he came to be the Winston we know in the movies. Dangerous, powerful, unafraid of death and doesn't take shit from anyone. I loved this scene and the look on her face when he shoots her lol.
And the stakes. To grow and to the constant thoughts of having to keep, but also to how they'll lose it the next. Such as the age of person, but not quite yet on how they set their role, until the stakes shifts where it may come to where they stand. Risks can ever so be a factor to life and what proves predicaments to be uncertained to the very nature of an instinct. Times do often change. For that is the one constant with the Times.
@@tashin9197 True but he still had his cunning and managed to beat the High Table with their own rules in John Wick 4. He was the brains and John was the muscle. The King was the support.
The sadistic Russian guy in miniskirts is actually pretty chill. Despite his boss dying, he understood the rules and its resonablilty and walked away. Plus showing repect to his dead boss
@@eliaswayne8237 Yet the Marquis died shortly later because of Winston. Winston was the one who made John's killing of the Marquis possible. In addition, Santino and the current Adjudicator feared Winston. The High Table only tried to kill Winston in the third film when they believed they had John in their pockets. They were wrong when John helped Winston fight the Adjudicator's forces.
@@ryankwon8785 You also have to remember that they feared Winston because they couldn't take him down after decades. He was an old man in a profession where most die young. It means that they know he knows how to play the game and manuever his way out of sticky situations to survive.
The attention to detail at 1:21 and before he even said he knew the rules of no killing on continental grounds. There's a reason why he has been the manager for so long.
I really hope there is a second season of this show. The entire cast was phenomenal, and there are still gaps about Winston and Charon's lives we don't know.
I love the attention to detail at 1:27. You can slightly see blood on the Adjuticators forehead, and she falls over. This is a reference to Winston pulling out his gun and shooting her in the head. Outstanding show.
The Adjudicator is simply a position of power. She’s the ‘pretty face” of the High Table’s power. And, yes, she, every Adjudicator, is very, very scary. She’s the one the High Table sends to let someone know ‘they’ve screwed up’ and are at risk of falling out of the High Table’s favor. She speaks for them, makes judgements in their name, serves at their pleasure. She also knows that her life is a careful balance. Going too far into her own interests will get her killed by the High Table. Dealing with underlings is dangerous as the perception of her power lies in the understanding of what the High Table will do to them if they disobey.
Nah, her mask made her look too silly to take her seriously. Something that I'm starting to realize since John Wick 3 is that instead of making the effort of showing how powerful and threatening the High Table really is, the writers/producers are just taking the easy way out by just showing members related to the High Table as excentric people doing flamboyant displays of wealth that serves no purpose other than to boast to themselves.
And ‘W’. Just before she died she said “You WON’T even register to them”. I thought of this just as I saw her mouth, and I haven’t even seen this series.
A real surprise how that was possible. Given how most would sound different with only the opening of a jaw than the lips in sync. Though perhaps there's still some perhaps part of her that still keeps her chin.
Maybe how a ventriloquist like Jeff Dunham does voices, where it's from careful practice to teach herself how to speak clearly while compensating for having no lips?
With what we know now of how Winston came into power and straight up KILLED an Adjudicator, you would think both the High table in 3-4 and the one in John Wick 3 would not underestimate Winston's power...then again this show was made after the fact. Still hindsight is 20/20 and the 3rd movies Adjudicator is lucky she didn't get a bullet in her head from Winston himself.
I believe it’s said throughout the John Wick series that you cut a head off the High Table and more grow back. No matter what Winston/John have done a new more evil High Table member surfaces so it’s a never ending battle to maintain civility of the Continental.
Although the scene paints winston as this huge badass, it really makes no sense, the woman talking perfectly with no lips, no high table punishment on winston, winston's counter-productive action
What I don’t get is, for a universe that’s about rules and consequences, how come this major action didn’t have any consequences? How could Winston kill a direct associate of the High Table before even being named Manager, and still got that position with no fallout?
@@abneralarcon6509 What place? Winston as of the movies was running that hotel for 40 years, how come he doesn’t have people after him at least once a week because of this? We’ve seen that the Table is relentless and has bodies to spare, dethroned Winston within an hour when he failed to kill John Wick but they just accepted that Winston has the upper hand after he killed an Adjudicator?
@@alexman378Well first he has the coin press which already places him in a nice situation. The next is who he replaced. Cormac was obviously seen as very unlikeable, so much that some upstart is a better palatable option. Third is that Winston has the hotel, and if they off him, not only do they lose the last shred of evidence of where the coin is, they lose a possible manager and the New York branch. What he did was horrible but since he did it off Continental grounds. It’s equivalent of either getting punched by a knuckle duster to the gut, or a barbed wire bat to the groin. Both suck, but one hurts less than the other.
@@thestranger1475 Except now Winston has a small group of close friends who could be exploited/tortured/blackmailed/killed by the high-table for leverage against him and the location of the coin press. Rash move on his part and poor writing IMO.
Fear. The same fear that made them declare a Marquis against John. In 40 years they forgot this fear. John made them remember it. Had they gone after Winston at this point, they would have suffered grievous pain. Fear is the one enemy The High Table can never defeat.
Love that 2 shots fired below before the final headshot, Winston is making sure that at least he injured her if she tries to escape, and dealt the final blow to confirm kill.
I'm gonna be honest, the only thing that kinda ruined this scene is the multiple cuts and slowmo of the headshot. John Wick was known to not revel in his kills and so kills were usually quick and not dramatized. This may not be John Wick, but it would be nice if they kept that.
Pretty sure her mouse wasn't ripped off for no reason so maybe it was one of the high table's punishments. And she wanted to mess with it by trying to steal the only thing that could produce its currency and went wrong.
@@_Black_Lemonade well if we look at how powerful figureheads from the high table act based on Marquis Vincent Bisset de Gramont sometimes to be of service one must prove it, so to be given the honor to serve face of the Hightable and be their adjudicator she had to give her face to the hightable. sometimes they be like that.
@@lamario295 That's not how it works, the high table isn't something that lets themself get blackmailed. They would have just kill Winston and get the coin press back themself. They have proven in JW that they have no problem sending in a strike team. So yeah realisticly this is nothing the table would let slide
@user-tf4dl2cj9c because Winston was actively moving against the High Table. Whereas here, he's just taking out an enforcer for them who's already admitted to acting rogue.
1. He has the coin press and is mentally sharper than Cormac and will defend it, protect it more effectively from the High Table. 2. The adjudicator herself was involved with the original robbery of the press (explained in the show), so she deserved punishment and eventually would’ve received it somehow from the High Table. Winston just expedited the process and the guard will explain the situation to the High Table who will dislike Winston but gain nothing by killing him.
Only reason I feel like Winston was given the hotel, *cause the High Table had more than enough justification to take it back from him* was the Adjuticator was acting on her own initiative and without the consent or knowledge of the HT that she was trying to take the Coin Press from Cormac for her own, I may have missed a bit in thje show if it explains it or forgot.... but Killing an Adjudicator would have to have a very powerful defense.
I love how Winston shoots her twice in the chest first just to allow her to feel the pain of her incoming death, letting her feel the pain she inflicted on multiple people throughout this whole ordeal
Winston has leverage on the "High Table". He knows the coin press location. They can't kill him. Winston also has rights to take over the "Continental". Let's keep in mind. Cormac O'Connor raised Winston and Frank. That's their father figure and mentor. Once the parents are gone, everything is yours. The Continental already knows their history.
Whoa, this is my first time learning about this show, but I have a non serious question: how in the world was she able to annunciate words properly without having lips?
great final scene of this series it was good to see that Winston shooting John Wick 3 wasn't the only time he fired a gun that this time was started his journey as manager of the Continental, Bold statement killing the Adjudicator he had to send a message to the high table of what he was capable of. Katie McGrath was the best choice for this role.
Never thought wick would bore me to tears but here’s where I’m at. Fight scenes I have seen over and over. Hand to hand and finally guns. The story is not a plot to get into a fight!
I just haven’t been able to find myself watching w/out John-but I’ve got to admit; HELL of a scene The attention to detail was pretty damn slick. Winston walking off that last step (Any fans that weren’t sure how’d they’d feel about this world w/no John Wick-has this been pretty good? Gonna give it a shot anyway Dunno, I guess it kinda felt like it would be a “Gotham w/out Batman & Joker” situation-but this looked pretty good)
