The Continental: From the World of John Wick
Peacock | Release Date: September 22, 2023
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53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 27 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
17
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The GuardianGraeme VirtueSep 22, 2023
Season 1 Review: The Continental knows its target audience of action junkies who grew up renting Van Damme or Chuck Norris movies every weekend for a short, sharp hit. Like Wick himself, it does the job efficiently and with a dash of wit: all killer and considerably less filler. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterAngie HanSep 20, 2023
Season 1 Review: 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. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydSep 20, 2023
Season 1 Review: You know whether you like this sort of thing — and I am guessing that if you do — you will like this particular interaction just fine. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzOct 3, 2023
Season 1 Review: Sleek, violent, middlingly fun, mired in impenetrable mythology and in sore need of a Keanu Reeves infusion. You hate to throw around terms like “cash grab" because it doesn’t feel like that. But it doesn’t feel entirely not like that, either. Read full review
50
USA TodayBrian TruittOct 3, 2023
Season 1 Review: As a bruising and bullet-ridden retro tale, its aim is true. And if you love the hits of the '70s, get ready for all your favorite needle drops. But as an essential addition to the “Wick” canon, “The Continental” is more of a misfire. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubSam BarsantiSep 20, 2023
Season 1 Review: It’s serviceable. Even with Mel Gibson involved, it’s not bad enough to hurt the John Wick franchise, but it’s also not exciting enough to justify becoming a key part of the canon. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comNick AllenSep 20, 2023
Season 1 Review: Aside from lacking the pacing, grandiosity, or general action junkie intoxication of any “John Wick” movie, “The Continental” lacks their disarming cool most of all. Read full review
50
IGNTom JorgensenSep 20, 2023
Season 1 Review: John Wick completists interested in a look at how Winston and Charon met and why Winston may have made some of the choices he did in the films have enough to keep them engaged, but there’s no doubt a better way to realize this world on the small screen than the scattershot, half-hearted execution of The Continental. Read full review
45
CNNBrian LowrySep 22, 2023
Season 1 Review: Despite no shortage of action, “The Continental” finally feels short on firepower. Read full review
45
SlashfilmJeremy MathaiSep 20, 2023
Season 1 Review: Gone are any of the movies' trademark sense of wry humor, tongue-in-cheek winks and nods, or basically any other humanizing emotion that prevented this franchise from taking itself way too seriously. In its place is a dour, poorly-lit, and oftentimes humorless slog that makes viewers feel every second of each episode's roughly 90-minute runtime. Read full review
42
IndieWireBen TraversSep 20, 2023
Season 1 Review: It stumbles toward an inept, non-ending, where there’s plenty of story still to tell if a successful run demands more seasons, yet not enough resolution to make what you just saw feel meaningful. Read full review
42
Paste MagazineElijah GonzalezSep 20, 2023
Season 1 Review: Despite being only three episodes long, The Continental is a slog that’s bogged down by poor characterization, brutal pacing, and extended droughts from its shootouts. Read full review
40
DeciderJoel KellerSep 25, 2023
Season 1 Review: The Continental feels like it’s more for John Wick completists than fans of well-plotted action series. Read full review
40
The New York TimesMike HaleSep 22, 2023
Season 1 Review: There isn’t a lot that needs saying about the wan, prosaic “The Continental,” which loads incident and exposition into its four and a half hours (over three feature-length episodes) but still feels formless and indistinct. The main culprit is probably the writing. Read full review
40
Rolling StoneAlan SepinwallSep 20, 2023
Season 1 Review: The sheer numbers [of characters] can’t obscure how flat most of these characters and performances are, and what a slog The Continental can be whenever fists, feet, and bullets aren’t flying. And in the process, these three episodes serve as a reminder that all the “gun fu” of the films would ring hollow if we weren’t already invested in Reeves and John Wick. Read full review
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New York Magazine (Vulture)Roxana HadadiSep 20, 2023
Season 1 Review: The Continental feels afraid to go all-out, limiting itself to a few thrilling action sequences whose creativity makes the sparse character motivations and drawn-out plot that much more belabored. Read full review
40
The Daily BeastNick SchagerSep 20, 2023
Season 1 Review: A three-part prequel that gives franchise fans everything they want save for a charismatic marquee lead, interesting and exciting bloodshed, or characters and lore worth paying attention to for an extended period of time. Read full review
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