The known mandate for Hollywood sequels is that they have to be more expensive and bigger. Give the viewer something more amazing based on volume to compensate for their fidelity. That doesn’t always translate into better, sometimes the key is finding something different that still maintains a familiar touch.
It is a bit the key why films like John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellumpart of the most amazing action saga of the decade. Keanu Reeves returns for another great barrage of violence that you can see in Amazon Prime Video for a limited time, being December 23rd is its last day in the catalog.
After the bloody events that took place at the Continental Hotel, the legendary virtuoso of death John Wick now finds himself in inferior conditions in the dark underworld of the Manhattan’s tangled urban battlefield. And with a tempting bounty on Wick’s head and all the business go-getters eager to take him down, the excommunicated cardinal of destruction finds himself between a rock and a hard place.
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As a result, John has to mercilessly face endless waves of brutal assassins from the High Table. Many have attempted to claim John’s head. However, he will try to resort to past alliances in order to reach the High Table and negotiate for his salvation. Even if I have to kill everyone who gets close to him for it.
The film could be framed in an “even bigger” way, but it does know what things to modify so that it doesn’t feel like a rehash. Moving around the world, with new actors to cast to accompany Reeves and changed cinematography to give another polish to the scenes, Parabellum get to be a special show.
‘John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum’: a violent treasure
The vision of director Chad Stahelski, present from the first John Wickcan be displayed in a different and also dazzling way. Also with some humor, having a great time with killing scenes that involve dogs, throwing knives at each other like snowballs, or even bringing in an NBA player to fight with their star, paying homage to Bruce Lee doing the same in I play with death.
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It manages to maintain the feeling that we are watching another John Wick, but not regurgitating the same thing with more money. There is a freshness in the ideas for the action scenes that very few are capable of offering right now, and they consolidate this franchise as the great treasure of the genre that is currently.
You can see John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum in Prime Video until December 23.
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