John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum

Here comes the part 3, another banger with impressive stunts, absolutely banger music, and crazy-wild action that just keeps getting better and better!!!

This was thrilling to watch John Wick 3 Action from start to finish. Can't wait for No 4 Highly recommend this film. Amazing action, Keanu Reeves at his best yet again.

самые жестокие драки. самые неожиданные сюжетные повороты. очень много лора. лучший из первой тройки

Successful sequel in 2 hours and 11 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Starring Keanu Reeves as John Wick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated R for Some Language and Pervasive Strong Violence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now understanding a good sequel balance between expanding the variety of your arsenal, alleviating things with a little humor, and keeping the story & characters fresh & interesting, Chapter 3 gives us actual reason to care for more John Wick, along with beautifully filmed, and brutally choreographed, action.

definitely exciting, but also 100% supernatural. the go into the desert and you will see and elder is ridiculous. where he going to the bathroom? so he flys his ass over to the middle of the desert and set up a whole thing before he wakes up? this is a movie where you can't watch with your logic and common sense but I love it none the less, its not pretending to be high art.

Possibly the silliest of the franchise with the most issues, but still a whole lot of fun, every action scene hits.

Welcome back to the third day of John Wick Week as we now tackle Chapter 3. Or as this is titled, Parabellum. Oddly, this is the only chapter related John Wick movie to have a subtitle, but I digress. Anyways, this, along with the fourth movie that I'd never seen before, in either theaters or on streaming. Maybe I was just not interested around the times. To be fair, the third movie was out during Pre-COVID, and the fourth movie was when it was out at Post-COVID. Not to mention, I didn't have much to gain to see these movies until now since I started to have more reviews of various movies, TV shows, and anime written up here and there. But before we get into this review, this will have some spoilers. You have been warned. Putting that little story aside, after seeing this movie, it is still a solid movie as a John Wick movie goes, yet there are things that are a little bit nit-picky. Not in a bad way, mind you. The action is still amazing as it's improved since the last two films. We learn a little more about John Wick, still played dedicatedly by Keanu Reeves, as he is on the run from the High Table after killing Santino D'Antonio on Continental hotel grounds as his bounty is now open for fourteen million dollars and still rising as well as being labeled excommunicado. So he makes it to the Ruska Roma crime syndicate in a local theater to meet up with the Director, played by Anjelica Huston, by presenting a rosary that he'd got from a local library where he'd stashed it. John demands to the Director safe passage to Casablanca to meet up with an old friend of his, as well as the manager of the Continental located there, named Sofia, played by Halle Berry. Showing Sofia the marker that John also had stashed in the local library from earlier that binds both of them when he rescued Sofia's daughter as well as hiding her. I will give this movie credit that this movie expands John's backstory a little more, despite how little we know except when he retired to get married and live a happy life before coming out of retirement since the first movie. As well as keeping the franchise fresh with some new addictions as each film does on like not only bringing in some bits of lore, we also see new characters being added like the Adjudicator, played by Asia Kate Dillion, and their enlisted pretege named Zero, played by Mark Dacascos. We even see The Elder, played by Said Taghmaoui, who John has to see in order to be forgiven and let back into the ranks by offering his ring finger as well as his wedding band. Thankfully, John will still have the memory of his late wife. During John's travels, we even see the Bowery King, still played by Laurence Fishburne, getting slashed by Zero as punishment for assisting John from the last film. Yeah, you could say that this is a little bit like John Wick on a globetrotting adventure as he now makes his way back to New York to meet up with Zero and his students of assassins before being under the protection of the Continental once again. Yet John couldn't bring himself to kill Winston as he is like a father to John, as the Elder has given John a condition to bear forgiveness. Which I had neglected to mention in my previous John Wick reviews. So now John, along with Charon, still played by the late Lance Reddick, fight off against High Table enforcers under the Adjudicator's orders before they offered a parley to Winston for an allegiance I will say more, yet I might've already spoiled a bit too much. Now, the breath of fresh air between action scenes is still nice. However, some of those moments felt a little awkward. Like, is it just me, or does it feel like Zero is trying a little too hard to have John Wick notice him before or after they were fighting each other? Their fight was still amazing. Their quiet time just felt the opposite. But I digress. The times with John with the Director and Sofia were better since we learned some history between them. I even want more time between John and Sofia. Oh, well. The action they'd shared, along with her dogs, was still awesome. Especially when them dogs are trained to attack dudes by the balls. It doesn't hurt to train your dogs to attack intruders under the belt every once in a while. Plus, it isn't the first time Halle Berry has been in action films, too. And let's be real, that one scene where John survived a high building has you questioning whether that's possible or not. I know I disagree with that logic. But I digress. Overall, it's still a solid action-packed film as the John Wick franchise is known for being successful. Yet some parts of the movie's breathing room felt off while others are still interesting when it comes to the lore of the World of John Wick. That's coming from how I've experienced this movie for the first time so far. How will the fourth film go before Ballerina? We shall see when the time comes as that film will be my first time, too. With that said, I'm giving Parabellum eight dogs fetching the guy who shot its partner by the balls out of ten. 8/10. Thankfully, the other dog trained by Sofia was wearing a bulletproof vest. Otherwise, I'd shoot the guy like she would, too.

本作似乎意在突出杀手组织的架构，对不同身份社群的描绘也确实让背景设定变得扎实了不少。可惜作为影片核心的动作戏较前作大为逊色，打斗过程的排演感过重，整体动作设计让基努·里维斯的表演变得笨拙迟钝，即便是“别出心裁”的骑马片段和玻璃房片段也难以让观感有实质性的提升。

It remains a lot of fun to watch John Wick get himself into and out of trouble in John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum.