The concept of an assassin film as metaphorical existentialism is not new but the idea of concept is in the eye of the beholder. With "American Star", Spanish director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego places Ian McShane as an aging assassin on the Spanish island of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands. The setting is masterful especially since it takes the audience a bit to figure out where it actually as McShane's hitman settles into his target.

The tenaciousness of John Wick has turned into something ethereal, less realistic in any sense and more the aspect of myth in his path of nilistic existence. With "John Wick: Chapter 4", the ampage continues to build but like samurais of old, using certain contemplations and ideas of what can be to make the world spin.