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Rating: 8 stars

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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)

Directed by Chad Stahelski

Action | Crime | Thriller

Most recently watched by VicnaLobster, CaptainBigTime, sleestakk

Overview

Super-assassin John Wick returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin’s guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world’s most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.

Rated R | Length 131 minutes

Actors

Keanu Reeves | Halle Berry | Ian McShane | Laurence Fishburne | Mark Dacascos | Asia Kate Dillon | Lance Reddick | Anjelica Huston | Saïd Taghmaoui | Jerome Flynn | Randall Duk Kim | Margaret Daly | Robin Lord Taylor | Susan Blommaert | Unity Phelan | Jason Mantzoukas | Andrea Sooch | Sergio Delavicci | Cecep Arif Rahman | Yayan Ruhian | Tiler Peck | Baily Jones | India Bradley | Olivia MacKinnon | Sarah Villwock | Eliza Blutt | Harrison Coll | Boban Marjanović | Maxim Beloserkovsky | Charles Askegard | Stefaniya Makarova | Jeff G. Waxman | Aïssam Bouali | Mustapha Adidou | Alexey Golousenko | Robert Samuels

Viewing History (seen 3 times)

Viewing Notes

Final movie of the trio! Definitely need to see this on its own in a Dolby theater. The sound at the Drafthouse is always disappointing.

While it was fun watching all three in a row, the final one suffered a bit from my fatigue in watching countless people get killed. I mean by the time the third one rolled around we were up to our eyeballs in dead people. It starts to all blend together and get monotonous.

That, combined with the obviousness (I mean, c’mon, this is the only one with a subtitle and it’s a play on para bellum which means to prepare for war, so…) of this one not being as standalone as the other two (in that they neatly wrapped up their stories even as they connected together nicely) explains my somewhat lower rating on this one (note, I revised my rating upwards after a few days away from the triple feature. I originally rated it a 6.5).

The world-building (destruction?) felt too forced this time around, whereas in the other two it just fit in really nicely. Also, if I hear the word “excommunicado” one damn more time, I’m gonna punch somebody (probably Ian McShane).

That aside, there are some hugely entertaining action set pieces in this that I absolutely loved. The knife fight scene with Tiger Chen, the horse stable scene, the sword cycle battle, the dogs fight scene, and the Mark Dacascos/Yayan Ruhian/Cecep Arif Rahman epic fight scene are all great!

Zero, Dacascos’ character, was just a fun character all around. He reminded me of Gordon Liu. It feels like he’s supposed to represent toxic fanboyism as he ultimately tries to destroy that which he idolizes and compares himself to.

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