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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)

Bald Move Prestige

Bald Move

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Jim and I take a belated look at the latest installment in the John Wick saga, Chapter 3: Parabellum. JW3:B, has some of the finest action sequences we've ever seen, but it's also rapidly approaching diminishing returns in terms of quantity over quality. We're all for combat innovations including insane knife work, horse and dog augmented combat, and up-armored adversaries, but there's only so many times you can watch Keanu kill a guy with a gun before you start checking your watch. With John Wick 4 looking to keep upping it's ante, is this momentum sustainable? We'll look forward to finding out! This podcast is an abridged version of the full, spoiler-filled discussion available only to our club members. Check out our Club Bald Move page to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, we are back with a belated John Wick 3 parabellum review.

0:04.4

I'm your host, Aram, and I'm Jim.

0:06.6

And we're going to do this, man, I'm already off my game.

0:10.4

It's Monday afternoon, it's not Thursday late at night. We saw John, like I said, John Wick 3, this is a series that was created by the director and writer, Chad Stiles, and Derek Colstead.

0:23.0

Of course, the Stars, Keanu Reeves,

0:25.6

it features much loved and over-the-top action.

0:30.8

Jim, what did you think of the third installment?

0:35.0

I thought this was the weakest of the John Wick movies, but still mostly pretty good.

0:43.0

It's interesting because I guess I feel like

0:47.0

the first one it's going to be always hard to beat

0:50.0

because it's just the purest action film. It's so efficient and it really works very well and packs a wallop

0:59.2

So I don't know because like this is I think this is a good John Wick film the unfortunate part

1:06.1

is of its three acts the strongest by far was its first absolutely and it kind of

1:11.8

achieves that at this for the second act, but the third act is just

1:17.0

much more of the same thing we've already seen in John Wick, whereas the other two kind of set pieces

1:22.0

reinvented things and took things to like a whole other level

1:26.0

and that did not do any favors for the film's energy.

1:31.1

But it's not bad, it's just it's this weird thing where the first act is amazing. The second act is pretty good and the third act is just felt like eating five gallons of vanilla ice cream. Like each individual bite was okay but man did I really need all these

1:46.8

bites consecutively in this in this order so there's a couple things the other thing that I thought I don't know why I thought this but I thought that this was the last of the John Wick movies I kind of expected it to be as well. Yeah. I thought that this is going to be where he dies or that he was going to supplant

2:05.0

whoever the Ian McShane character is that rules over the continental that

2:10.4

and in early goings at a film I thought,

2:13.5

ah, this is exactly what's going to happen.

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