Just when we thought the story of John Wick had come to a close, the Baba Yaga returns—more wounded, more brutal, and more determined than ever. John Wick: Chapter 5 – The Wages of Vengeance imagines a bold and emotional continuation of the franchise, proving there’s still more to explore in the underworld of assassins, honor, and blood debts.
After the climactic duel in Chapter 4, John Wick was presumed dead. But as we now learn, death was just another illusion. Hidden by the remnants of the Ruska Roma, John has spent the last two years healing—not just from bullet wounds, but from the grief and guilt that drove him since the death of his wife.
But peace never lasts.
When a young assassin named Noor—the daughter of an old ally John once betrayed—hunts him down, John is pulled back into a war he tried to leave behind. Noor offers him a choice: help her destroy the New Table, a brutal council rising from the ashes of the old regime, or be hunted again, this time by the next generation.
With Winston in exile, the Bowery King’s network fractured, and old alliances broken, John must now walk a new path: not just as a killer, but as a mentor, a relic of a dying code. This journey takes him from the ruins of Budapest to a war-torn safe haven in South America, as he confronts his past through the eyes of those he once left behind.
The Wages of Vengeance blends the stylized gun-fu and martial arts of previous entries with more raw, grounded emotion. The action choreography remains top-tier—elegant, violent, inventive—but this time, every fight feels personal. A standout scene includes a rain-soaked rooftop brawl in Bogotá and a brutal two-versus-many sequence in a candlelit monastery.
But it’s the quieter moments that leave a mark—John teaching Noor how to dismantle a pistol, or sharing memories of his wife by a fire. Keanu Reeves delivers a quieter, more reflective performance, showing us a man who knows he is nearing his end.
Chapter 5 doesn’t aim to outdo the scale of its predecessors—it narrows its focus to what matters most: legacy, redemption, and sacrifice. With emotional weight and poetic action, John Wick: The Wages of Vengeance is not just another entry—it’s a reckoning.
