John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum 10/10
This
is gonna be full of spoilers. I fucking loved this movie. I liked but
had some complaints about the first one and loved the second. I was
hype as shit when I heard this one was coming out and avoided
spoilers. I knew a horse would be involved because the trailer and a
crazy ass motorcycle chase. I can not believe that after three movies
I am still wanting to see more of this character. Hell, I made a
Perler bead design of him a while ago. I went to see this at the AMC
up on Sunset and the theater was quiet at first but started to get
hype as the movie went on. But seriously. Those half hour worth of
trailers and commercials is way too much. Now on to the review!
This
takes place almost an hour after the last film. Love it. John Wick is
still battered and fucked up after everything that happened
previously. Remember, he was given an hour to run by Winston after
being declared excommunicado for killing that asshole dude Santino
D'Antonio. He and his dog are running through the city as the clock
ticks down. We see that place where contracts are drawn up are
processing his shit. John heads to the library by taxi and leaves his
dog in the cab telling the driver where to take him. Of course the
driver is a part of the secret underground world and takes the coin.
John grabs a book that has some extra coins, a marker coin, a
necklace with a cross, and a photo of his wife. This giant asshole
shows up like “They wont know if I kill you early so I might as
well try.” John ends up beating this guys ass with a book but not
before getting stabbed in the shoulder. Hell, the contract is for $14
million so I get it.
John
finds this guy who fixes hurt people and he is worried about helping
John. He is like “I got five more minutes!” The guy stitches him
up as John counts down the time as well as the main office. The guy
who helps John says that he will be killed for helping and asks him
to hurt him. He tells John where to shoot him and he does and wishes
John good luck. Its fucking crazy and I love secret words with rules.
John ends up fighting some more gangs who chase him an while they are
on their way he puts together a gun and takes them out. It is an
amazing fight scene. Every fight in this looks amazing and I was
never bored. There are more knife fights in this and way more brutal
kills. He stabs a guy slowly in the eye with a knife and you see the
shit very clearly.
This
lady known as The Adjudicator shows up at The Continental. She is
there to let Winston know he is in trouble for disobeying The High
Table and giving John an hour to escape. He has seven days to get his
shit in order. John heads to The Director and flashes his necklace
with a cross. They let him in and The Director is like “You use to
belong here but I do not have to help you and you even being here
could get us all killed.” John hands over the cross, known as a
ticket, and they stick it on a poker and burn the center of his back
over his tattoo. He is officially out of these folks lives.
John
gets passage to Casablanca and is immediately attacked. He is saved
by a guy who lets the attackers know he is cool...right now. One dude
still tries and gets his face blown off by the guy who takes John to
meet Sofia. John says hello as her dogs wanna eat all of his ass. She
shoots him in the chest (bullet proof coat!) and wants him to leave.
John does the same shit that the guy who got him into all this
trouble did and cashes in his favor with the coin. She does not want
it nor does she want to know where her daughter is because she knows
she will try to find her and end up getting her killed. John wants a
meeting with the head of The High Table to get out of this jam. They
leave and meet with this asshole who wants one of Sofia's dogs. She
says no and the dog is shot. The theater gasped. The dog is wearing a
bulletproof vest with a gun hidden underneath. John looks at her
like “Don't...” and she starts blasting away. There is a lot of
shooting, faces being blown off, and dogs eating folks dicks. So much
dick biting! They escape and she leaves John in the desert.
The
Adjudicator visits The Bowery King and lets him know he is in trouble
for giving John the gun he used to kill that D'Antonio guy. He's like
“Muthafucka I am the streets!” The Adjudicator finds this crazy
ass sushi dude named Zero and hires him. Now this guy. He has a crew
of students that are awesome as fuck. One of them straight up blends
into the background so easily he seems to appears out of nowhere.
Multiple times. Zero admires John Wick and looks forward to facing
him. He is crazy but provides some good laughs in this. John wanders
the desert until he is found and dumped where The Elder is. The Elder
says that John can get back in but has to kill Winston and return
back to work. I thought for a second he would say no but he cuts his
damned ring finger off and has it burned closed. He gives the ring to
The Elder and arrives back in the city.
John
and Zero's gang get into it on motorcycles. Wait. The horse scene. He
ends up in a stable and smacks horses asses to use them as weapons.
He weaponizes horses! They straight up kick a dudes face off! I said
“Ow! Ow!” when it happened and started laughing. John and Zero
end up crashing in front of The Continental. Just when Zero is about
to kill him John places his hand on the steps and Charon welcomes him
inside. John and Zero sit down and John's dog is eleven kinds of
happy to see him. Zero says he and John are the same and sits way too
close to him. John meets with Winston who says he does not plan on
giving up The Continental and wants to wage war against them. The
Adjudicator sees that Winston is not giving up his spot and John wont
kill Winston so now it is time for some soldiers to show up and wreck
shit. Loved seeing Charon getting a chance to shoot some bitches.
I wont
say anymore about this and I left a bunch of crazy shit out. This has
the potential to be done or have maybe one more movie. I love seeing
how many levels to this crazy High Table world there is. That no
matter how crazy your ass wants to be that you follow the rules. The
music in this was cool as hell and the action has gotten better with
each film. This movie is in its own world and I love it. Even when
they are in the regular world they try to kill in not too obvious
ways. Unless there are horse/motorcycle chases. That was public as
shit. I loved this movie and am super happy that I got to watch this
in a theater. Go see this as soon as you can. If you liked the first
two movies you should like this one too. I sure as fuck did.
Keanu
Reeves as John Wick
Ian
McShane as Winston
Mark
Dacascos as Zero
Laurence
Fishburne as the Bowery King
Asia
Kate Dillon as the Adjudicator
Halle
Berry as Sofia
Lance
Reddick as Charon
Anjelica
Huston as the Director
Saïd
Taghmaoui as the Elder
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