'John Wick: Chapter 4' best installment yet

All hail "John Wick, the most perfect unplanned action film franchise ever.

With every other series of action films whose sequels were propelled more by the previous installments' unexpectedly outsized and enduring popularity than by any premeditated plots their creators might have had in mind, there is always some misstep, however minor, that the series has to either retroactively erase or else compensate for in the later installments.

The "Fast & Furious" franchise has made an admirable art form out of the deftness and audacity with which it's dodged its own profoundly dodgy continuity, but...