‘The Continental: From the World of John Wick’ Review: Mel Gibson Sours an Otherwise Serviceable Spinoff

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‘The Continental: From the World of John Wick’ Review: Mel Gibson Sours an Otherwise Serviceable Spinoff
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The star plays the villain in a prequel spinoff chronicling the rise of Winston Scott (Colin Woodell), future hotelier to elite assassins, through the criminal underground of 1970s New York.

has never been solely about its leading man. Just as essential to its enduring popularity has been the universe it’s built over four features: one populated by elite assassins and guided by arcane rules, cast in perpetually moody lighting just beneath the surface of our mundane reality.

Whether that setting in itself is enough to mint new heroes and sustain new leads is the meta question at the heart of Peacock’s, a John Wick-less sequel set decades before Keanu Reeves ever snarled “I’m thinking I’m back.” And though it seems more a test of concept than a complete saga, it’s a tentatively successful one — though with one major misstep that’ll be enough to ruin the whole experiment for many.

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