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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
5/10
We have somehow made it to the third instalment of John Wick movies and for me, this is up there with the constant rubbish from the Fast and Furious franchise or even Xander Cage movies. Everyone is entitled to their opinions and mine is that these movies are pointless. Very rarely they have a decent storyline and the first two movies prove this. This time Wick is a wanted man and we are about to find out what happens when the other assassins try to cash in on the prize of taking out Wick. All he is trying to do is clear his name and bring a truce within the assassin's league. To help him out, he turns to Halle Berry's character, who only adds to the 'fun' with her killer dogs.
The movie was completely forgettable for me, just like the first two and if there is a forth, I really don't want to waste another 2 hours of my life. The action and fights scenes were second to none but once you've spent 5 minutes watching one, they all seem to blend into one. With an endless stock of ammo for any gun he seems to pick up, the guy evens starts killing people with books in a library. He has taken down another assassin and now he needs to stay alive by any means and after the high adrenaline scenes, which lack a lot of storyline at times, we end up with Wick winning the day but being battered to within an inch of his life for his troubles. He even gets shot several times off a rooftop but the manager of his main go-to hotel. By the end, he is carted in front of another side character where he is coming back around, stating he is pissed off and ready for action. This worries me. This could actually lead to a third.
For some reason, I have never taken to Keanu Reeves as an actor. I enjoyed some of his earlier movies but he is very one dimensional for me. With a lot of head shaking, which I'm sure I've mentioned in another review he was involved in, his character gets boring and fast. There were a lot of 'oh's and ah's' within the fights scenes as people died in all sorts of ways but soon after, especially the gunfights, they got pretty boring. I do love the look on some of the shots and the cinematography, especially the shots in the rain make the movie look a lot more interesting but I could watch the movie on mute to enjoy that. Every character just ends up being expendable and when it comes to the main villain, they are pretty uninteresting. It goes over the top sometimes with its action and trying to make Wick look god-like and as if someone is playing a video game. I'm still surprised that so many people rate this movie and the trilogy so highly.
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