John wick three reviews movie#
he is the target for other killers and who doesn't like a bounty/money? Well some may have been better off if they just passed on this "opportunity", but that wouldn't have made for a good movie now, would it? We also get a couple of new characters, portrayed by Halle Berry and Marc Dacascos. They are also quite good, if you like action flicks. While it is not necessary to have seen the other Wick movies, it does make sense. Though his motivations are different now. As you can tell by a third installment, he still had places to go, things to do and people to kill. Where could John Wick go? And yes pun intended or rather multiple meanings implied. Enjoyable for what it is, but it has a lot of weaknesses that detract while watching. It is still slick, quite enjoyable tosh, and very well put together in terms of fight sequences, but it does feel bloated and overlong, and could have done with a tighter world - although I guess they cannot put that back in the box after the second movie took it out. The endless lack of consequence does make it hard to stay engaged with, and it needs it to be cool and slick so that we never connect it to the real world - but seeing people stabbed in a busy train station with people just walking by without reaction does make that hard, for example. I enjoyed the flow and pace, but never got caught up in a fight in a way where it had me on the edge of the seat contrast the fight with Yayan Ruhian and Cecep Arif Rahman, and the fights that the two are involved with in The Raid 1 and 2 respectively - their John Wick fight is enjoyable but their fights in The Raid movies had weight, danger, and risk. Having two cast members from The Raid films had the positive impact of having them, but there was a negative too because those films manage to deliver stakes and tension in the violence - something John Wick just doesn't manage to ever do. It is brutally violent but it is almost like a ballet to watch it. At its best though, the film doesn't concern itself with this and instead has nicely flowing sequences of well-choreographed violence that is well directed and performed. The simplicity of the first film is therefore gone, and the slick fun is hurt because it feels bloated in scale, and has to work to sell this unsellable world to the viewer. As with the first film, this expands the world more than it can bear, and although it looks cool at times, the world makes no sense whatsoever and it hurts the film the more it relies on it (which it does as it expands it). True enough, Parabellum ("prepare for war") sees the whole world filled with assassins, and a huge administrative system around them - but yet the whole lot of them can't seem to cause John Wick too much trouble. I remember ending that film feeling like it had gone too far but that the third would probably do more of that. The second film was only 2 years ago, and it raised the stakes and went from a man seeking revenge on another group of people, into one where the world was filled with assassins, popping up from everywhere all the time. It is 5 years since the first John Wick film - one that took me by surprise by how silly it was as a narrative, but yet how well it delivered action sequences. With two Oscar winners in the cast, director Chad Stahelski adds a bit of opulent style to the brutal action such as Russian Ballerinas trained by Anjelica Huston while protected by Belarusian heavies. John Wick fights with knives, swords, horses, books and all kinds of guns. I particularly liked Halle Berry fighting with her two dogs. A little too long, but as brainless action films go, this was enjoyable. Everywhere John Wick goes someone is trying to kill him. Wick meanwhile needs to find a way to Morocco to find the Elder and make peace with him. The manager of the Continental, Winston (Ian McShane) has his own problems to deal with the Adjudicator sent by the High Table for helping Wick by giving him a one hour head start. Now John Wick is excommunicado and a $14 million bounty is placed on him. In the previous film, John Wick broke the rules and did an unsanctioned kill inside the Continental Hotel. In fact two stars from that franchise appear in this movie. John Wick 3 owes more than a passing nod to The Raid films. After Speed came out in 1994, I did not expect Keanu Reeves to still produce the goods in action movies 25 years later.