Haha Thursday come faster

Watched the movie tonight and theater was more than half-full on opening night. Crowd reacted to every graphic violence - only 1-2 cuts IIRC, hardly important. 8/10 for me and 5/10 for my SO cos too violent for her - she cringed many times ewww ehhh aakk.

Action scenes/ set pieces top notch, on par or even better than previous movies

He survived that landing with a f*king pencil

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019)

Just so everyone is on the same page, Parabellum is Latin for be prepared for war.

The movie is aptly named, if you asked me.

Director Chad Stahelski, what can I say about him?

He was a stunt man in The Matirc (1999) and learnt the art of movie story telling from The Wachowski Brothers.

Not only the art of storytelling (which, based on their last few works, the The Wachowski Brothers/Sisters themsleves had forgotten how to...) also the art of movie universe creation.

Which leads me to John Wick.

The first movie is the hardest.

Why?

You had to create the universe, the characters, the rules and whether the general viewing audience to take to your concepts.

Once that is established, in John Wick 2, they had to expended the movie universe.

Most of you know that sequels rarely work.

If you give the audience what they want (more of part one) they will accuse you of pandering to the masses.

If you change things on they, they will yell sacrilege.

So, as I had said, not easy.

You have to find a middle ground and Chad Stahelski found the middle path for the John Wick 1 & 2.

So how did he fare in the third movie?

In a nutshell, good.

The movie universe is expended yet again.

If you like violence in your movie, boy do I have a movie for you.

Most characters from the previous movies return (except for the beagle.... poor puppy)

Everything here works.

The downside is, to make the action bigger, more explosion etc, the action was not "consistent" from the previous movies (I am talking about the fight style of Keanu), until the third act, and the evolution of John Wick fight style returned, and it was... spectacular.

I have to talk a little about Mark Dacascos here.

I believe he is one of the most underrated martial arts action star out there. He has got the moves, just unfortunately, he had not had luck with movie projects and audience.

Based on skill alone, he should have had a much larger audience base... c'est la vie.

So... did I like this

Yes

Will it be the movie to knock Avenger Endgame out of the No 1 pedestal?

We shall see.

Will they make another John Wick?

My concern would be would Keanu be up to it (he is 56 yo... )?

Everybody grows older.... not younger..

On the special note, My Two Sen

Beautiful fight scene, great lore expansion , love the gag especially dog gag and the last scene.

The action sequences just keeps getting bigger, bloodier and more brutal in every instalment. Loved it!

As a sequel, this is a better movie than the second one. This instalment greatly benefited from having actual action stars in it. Mark Dascascos and The Raid Bros ramps up the energy for the last action set-piece. Halle Berry another fine addition to the ever expanding characters of "Wick-niverse". Enjoy her action set-piece the most for me. Another cool bits are the creative kills this time around.

Pretty sure will revisit this over and over again.

Haha same question thrown to tom cruise and mission impossible 7

Anyway another shout out to scott adkins as he also rock solid as good and bad guy and may suit his edge soon

Same goes 2 the south east asian greats tony jaa and iko uwais

I know you very excited but can you tone it down by not double post

Haha being grown up with cheesy action of 80s 90s i still can take ultra violence starting with raid series hahahaha

Of course the one i cannot stomach is hannibal holocause type and irreversible

This round no pencil kill dang it



This post has been edited by skylinelover: May 16 2019, 03:46 PM

already watch it .. i think the end was a bit weak . when the japanese guy fight john . and also the indonesian fellas beating john .. a biit disappointed on the ending .. cliffhanger anyway . halle berry character macam a bit rush .. i think i prefer the 2nd rather than this new one ..

First half waS good and serious. Until the end was a joke to me. Potong stim lol

That cliffhanger ending..........

Looks similar to Chapter 2's ending. But at least Chapter 2 had pulsating bgm + various reaction-shots + Wick's escaping scenes = epic

I understand the makers are attempting something big...expanding the lore...but felt they could've done at least 50% of it in this film's 2nd half itself...instead of Parabellum

While I admired over-the-top relentless action scenes in this film...by far the best over last decade or so, felt plot in original part 1 was gripping...for some reasons...felt Chapter 2 found neat balance between action & plot.

I wanted k

Kecian Keanu for shooting this movie, he must be very tired , fighting from start until finish . Not to mentioned he is not getting any younger.

This series is just keeps getting better and better. Damnn I’m impressed. Love to see Morpheus and Neo working together again. Can’t wait to see them kick ass in JW:4! Hoping to see Trinity joining the cast list, or perhaps Agent Smith.

John Wick 4 confirmed...
https://www.slashfilm.com/john-wick-4-relea...te/#more-556364

anyone else find the knife throwing fight scene at the start of the movie is superbly done?

Bring it on