John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum

It's really impossible to keep track of all the rules, but you don't really care... because the action scenes are so elaborate, so well-choreographed, and so much fun.

John Wick 3: Parabellum - Was more like, 'shoot everyone in the cerebellum' An awesome movie with a just as awesome budget for the number of bullets used. Loved the dog too.

The film delivers on the non-stop fantastical action, but lags when trying to build the assassin universe beyond John Wick. This leads to an overinflated cast of characters.

It doesn't connect much on an emotional level, but the third chapter in the John Wick series is still violent action filmmaking at its finest.

The choreography and the black-transparent look of that section of the film gave it a jolt and, for a while, a reason to exist. The rest lacked anything as involving, despite the aggressive, nonstop complication of every second of the film.

Director Chad Stahelski knows how to stage action, in this movie, he learns how to capture it.

Parabellum ups the ante in a good way, an action-packed adventure bolstered by Reeves' dedication to his craft.

While it is exhilarating to watch its tightly choreographed scenes and cheer as Keanu Reeves puts a sword through an assailant, it is also good to pause and recognize that we are, in fact, cheering as human beings are killed.

We may not have gotten the John Wick sequel we wanted, but it's entirely possible it's the one we need for now.

This is a movie that absolutely delivers on the most important thing that it must deliver on: the action. But on the story level, this is probably the weakest of the stories in this franchise.