John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum - 2019
Updated: Sep 22, 2022
THE GRACE PERIOD IS OVER
Violence as poetry. It's the hyper-stylized violent imagery of Jodorowsky in a waltz with the choreography of ballet. But, could such a marriage really work? John Wick 3: Parabellum screams back a defiant - "YES!" Toward that end, JW3 contains no less than six remarkable fight sequences in its runtime. It features (somewhat in film order) - an expert knife throwing battle, murder by tome in the library, Keanu on horseback battling goons on motorcycles, a sequence where Halle Berry is sic'ing two highly trained dogs on a whole platoon of baddies (unreal stunt sequence), a battle with martial arts twins in a house of mirrors, and a final mano y mano hand-to-hand that somehow manages NOT to pale in comparison to aaaaall that went before it. The first two JW's were great pictures full of great fun. But, this kind of visual battle storytelling is without peer. Throw in the fact that the plot is not entirely missing here either (we get more of the High Table and Wick's origin story), and this is popcorn fare not to be missed.
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