![]() ![]() That said, there are some fun new additions to the franchise, including Berry as an assassin who’s just as efficient and pitiless as Wick. ![]() Parabellum’s four credited writers (including original John Wick scribe Derek Kolstad) strain to justify Wick’s comings and goings and, as a rule, this series is least satisfying when characters are speaking and most electric when they’re letting their fists and feet do the talking. On the whole, this world-building has only been moderately interesting, mostly taking away from the balletic action sequences (featuring largely practical stunts) that are these films’ raison d’être. ![]() But along the way, hitmen around the globe will try to kill him to earn a rich bounty.Īfter the surprise sleeper success of the 2014 original, which established the rules of Wick’s assassin brotherhood, Chapter 2 and Parabellum have expanded this franchise’s universe, introducing us to more characters as well as more wrinkles in the hitman hierarchy. These relatively low-budget martial-arts/shoot-‘em-up extravaganzas have positioned themselves as being extreme action flicks in an age of family-friendly superhero movies, and the betting is that a gung-ho crowd will support this third instalment - even with high-profile titles such as Aladdin and Godzilla: King Of The Monsters soon to arrive.įollowing the events of Chapter 2, which ended with John Wick (Reeves) becoming a wanted man in the underworld of assassins, the new film finds him on the run, recruiting an old associate, Sofia (Halle Berry), to help him seek out a wise elder of the High Table, who might be able to restore his name and save his life. Set to hit UK theatres on May 15 and US screens two days later, Parabellum looks to top the $172 million that 2017’s John Wick: Chapter 2 grossed worldwide. This series is least satisfying when characters are speaking and most electric when they’re letting their fists and feet do the talking All that matters is how director Chad Stahelski concocts his usual litany of flinty fight scenes, and how Keanu Reeves invests the material with his wonderfully spacey stoicism. Feel free to ignore the nonsensical plot and tortured musings on honour, revenge, loyalty and destiny. Knives, library books, motorcycles, belts, horses, swords, acrobatic attack dogs, lots and lots of guns just about anything can be a weapon in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, whose euphoric, almost comically protracted action sequences outpace the film’s general ludicrousness. ![]()
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