John Wick Chapter 3 – Parabellum, better than ever
John Wick returned in a third installment in which the rhythm does not decay but in which, inevitably, and given the turn towards nonsense and towards a circus "harder still" in the second installment, all he can do is step on the Accelerator and not look back. The result is, perhaps, the most exciting and memorable western action film of the year, but also one in which the seams of the franchise begin to be in sight.
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That is not necessarily negative: it is simply that John Wick: Chapter 3 does not take a side step and makes a different proposal, but simply enhances the findings of the two previous installments. John Wick is still a top-notch stew: the news is enough, the "taller, stronger, faster" has not yet reached the ceiling and, frankly, the charisma and presence of Keanu Reeves seems to have no limits.
In all that increases, John Wick 3 is predictable within his still generous space for surprise: fights, shootings and persecutions are more spectacular and excessive than ever. The choreographies are more intricate, reaching in their best moments almost to the level of oriental cinema of last generation; the violence is more grotesque; the scenes themselves, in short, are the most marathon of the entire franchise. And Keanu Reeves fights better than ever, and the jump in terms of fluidity and speed he has taken since the already very noticeable first delivery is considerable.
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And as for the expansion of its world, the film continues to tighten the nuts of credibility, again with an (momentary) international trip, introducing some association on the sidelines of the Mesa - a Soviet assassins with whom the protagonist was formed-, putting face to the methods and several high positions - and civil servants - of the association of criminals and revealing more and more about the Continental. We are even given vague data about Wick's past through Halle Berry, although in general the film plays to preserve the mystery of his less and less mysterious antihero. The world built by Derek Kolstad (screenwriter) and Chad Stahelski is so consistent that it makes it possible to expand and tighten the demands of the viewer.
Something that does the saga very well is to change a small element in the circumstances of the hero, so that although the structure of his new experience is the same, the conditions, usually more complicated for his survival, change. Thus, the second exposed the universe of murderers who operate with rigid rules outside society and, after the simple individual adventure of primal revenge, put a price on his head. In the third part, John Wick starts where the previous one was, expelled from that society of murderers for breaking the rules and with no place to hide.
John Wick 3 is, essentially, an incessant chase and with few moments of rest for Wick, but where he has time to meet his origins as a murderer, collect some blood debts (as we saw in the second part, only this time something better comes out). And yes, of course that everything ends at a point and often where circumstances change again for the protagonist, in a delivery that no longer makes any effort to disguise his serial condition.
John Wick is far from wearing out, but it would be absurd to deny that it is a problem on the horizon. It is clear that the character, admirably embodied by a Reeves who knows and exploits that his hero's lethal sobriety is the perfect antithesis of his public image as an actor, has rope for a while.
Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/458156-john-wick-chapter-3
Critic: AAA