John Wick isn’t a franchise created to win awards at Sundance or have people tear up to.
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Having said that, writing is not what the creators of the movie were focused on, obviously. The plots purpose seems to only be to find ways to justify Keanu Reeves saying fewer words and killing more people. This may be the first action movie I’ve ever seen where the protagonist uses his dead spouse’s name in vain just to do more killing. In all, I find it very hard to give this movie a good review just because of how much of a waste of time it felt like. Cleverly leaving the option for a fourth installment, maybe titled John Wick 4: Keanu Reeves shoots more extras. An act that was orchestrated like it was planned. What follows is a Parley between Winston and a representative of the High Table where Winston immediately turns on John Wick, shooting him off the roof of a New York Building. And, surprise, turns out John successfully kills a lot more people. The scene goes like this: John tells Winston he has to kill him and Winston asks John if he would rather keep the promise to the High Table or if he’d rather be the boogeyman and kill a lot more people, and forgetting everything that’s happened in the film up to that point, John basically shrugs and decides to kill a lot more people. But instead of killing him and sustaining the promise he made in his Wife’s honor, he is convinced by Winston not to after he’s given a “boogeyman” pep talk. The first person he’s supposed to kill is Winston, the owner of the Continental Hotel. This scene would be memorable if it wasn’t all contradicted minutes later. The millennial who looks like he gets his beard trimmed at a salon allows him to live under the condition John keeps killing for the Table, John agrees to this. In a test to prove his earnestness Wick chops off his own ring finger, and presents it to head honcho. When asked why he wants to live, Wick says “to remember.” Wick wants to live to sustain the memory of his wife. Here, Wick asks for forgiveness from this unimpressed graduate student. He, surprise, doesn’t die and is instead is transported to a tent in the desert by a very very old man riding a camel.Īfter this, it’s a surprise that he’s presented to a perfectly groomed 28 year old we have to presume is the famed High Table top dog. Wick finally reaches the point where he’s walked some more after not being able to walk anymore and he collapses. To their credit, the shots are beautiful. John, however, still makes the trek, and the viewer is presented with several minutes of different angles showing suited Keanu Reeves hiking through the orange Sahara.
There John Wick seeks redemption with the High table and is told he has to go to the desert and “walk till he can walk no more, then walk more” this is followed by the obligatory firefight sequence. His journey starts by showing us the first of many glimpses of his backstory and continues to Morocco with guest star Halle Berry. So in this seemingly Odysseus inspired movie, Wick fights through the obstacles and assassins sent after him by The High Table in his hero’s journey towards redemption. He’s violated the terms of the Continental Hotel, which presides under something called “The High Table.” There’s something of a god complex surrounding The High Table in the assassin world. His actions in the hotel were strongly forbidden in the assassin world which is why he’s being chased by – what seems like – all of New York City in the third movie. The Hotel remains an important plot piece for the rest of the film. The story follows him fleeing New York City after killing the last film’s antagonist in the “Continental Hotel”. There’s only so many fight scenes a movie can have before it turns into a blur of gunshots, punches, and Keanu Reeves saying “Yeah” like he smokes 3 packs a day. John Wick 2 was so unmemorable that I’m having to research the plot, and I watched it last year. Of the three only the first John Wick is at all memorable. Turning Wick from a heartbroken soul who only kills when he’s forced to come out retirement to a trigger-happy old man with an incredibly limited vocabulary.
The only thing the third movies’ plot does more than killing extras is contradict itself. Over the three movies, Keanu Reeves killing people seems to be the only constant. Because a total of 205 kills wasn’t enough, John Wick: Parabellum adds to the number.
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