Keanu Reeves embattled hit man kills scores of fellow assassins in John Wick : Chapter 4 while armed with a startling economy of verbiage.
Reeves says just 380 words in the nearly three-hour film, according to the Wall Street Journal . And some of them are mere utterances like yeah.
The fourth installment of Reeves antihero shoot-em-up franchise earned excellent reviews and first-weekend box office numbers but anyone expecting a soliloquy from the Speed star will be sorely disappointed.
His longest line in the movie is delivered to a character played by Hiroyuki Sanada: You and I left a good life behind a long time ago, my friend.
Director Chad Stahelski told the Journal that Reeves slashed about 50 percent of Wicks dialogue from the first script.
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Reeves was no chatty Cathy in the original John Wick either, saying 448 words.
The beloved cinema icon is in good leading-man company on the less-is-more verbal front. There were reportedly just 51 spoken English words in Robert Redfords survival-at-sea drama All Is Lost (2013).
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