John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Once again with the John Wick (Keanu Reeves) immortalizing survival, this time as the entire criminal underworld extolls chaotic fury.

Congenially, as he's wildly pursued, he seeks the loyal aid of his friends, even if there's little they can do, besides coax divine personal sacrifice.

15 million or so to take his invincible life, too tempting for foolish addicts, too irresistible for would be rivals.

He makes his way to Casablanca in search of He-Who-Sits-Above-the-Table, a lone trek across the desert awaiting, with no guarantee he'll be warmly received.

Yet fortune smiles kindly upon him, and indeed a new deal is made, but not without giving up freedoms, and returning to bogeyman shade.

'Til further complications arise which jeopardize so many many lives.

Madness in searing discountenance.

Focused through utter dysfunction.

Except for Wick of course, who instinctually governs dispassionately.

Although there are points where he could have succumbed, where he almost falls stricken asunder.

The action's intense and the bedlam well choreographed as multiple opportunists seek scathing derisive leverage.

But it isn't as nutso as I thought it would be, and though Wick's still embattled for much of the menace, I still thought there would be less dialogue, less lengthy non-threatening exchanges.

Another dog is imperilled, another ally outcast.

I understand that the dialogue is supposed to be raw, to reflect unpretentious communication with sincere direct honesty, but there are films who use similar conversational strategies which make more of a lasting impact, Paris, Texas, for one, Robert Rodriguez remaining the master.

The first John Wick film was just so good that I keep hoping for similar effects from its successors.

I love Terminator 3 for instance, I'll watch Alien 3 again, Star Trek III, Blade: Trinity, Die Hard: with a Vengeance.

Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy excelling far beyond my expectations, with august realistic agency, cinema needs more Christopher Nolan.

I don't consider the Iron Man or Thor films etc. to be trilogies anymore, rather I see them as instalments in an unprecedented colossus that's too vast for these kinds of comparisons.

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum's still cool though, I'll give it that, but it's not more than you would have expected.

The rest of the film could have been as impressive as the fight scenes.

I like how Wick understands animal kind.