John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum

Parabellum marks the most diverse entry into the John Wick franchise yet.

When there are hundreds of deaths, it's pretty incredible that John Wick 3 sustains its inventiveness and sheer bonkers-ness.

The script (series creator Derek Kolstad leads the writing team) is excellent, especially when regular characters such Anjelica Huston's Ruska Roma boss and Laurence Fishburne's Bowery King return to beef up the dialogue.

Buying a ticket to a John Wick movie is like signing control of your lizard brain away to the director, Chad Stahelski, for 130 minutes. Luckily, he knows what to do with it.

Reeves and Dacascos's brutal, climactic sparring session definitely leaves us wanting more, not to mention wondering about a potential Oscars sound editing category for shattering glass.

Reeves is committed to this role. He excels in this genre because of his willingness to push his body to the limit in the name of authenticity.

John Wick 3 is about as action heavy as you would expect for a plotline that’s essentially one man against a planet. It’s violent, stylised, and over the top. Totally and utterly bonkers to occasionally baffling degrees. So naturally I loved it.

I liked a lot of the film, and do even admire its over-stuffiness at times, and left curious by the choices made at the end of the film based on where it leaves the characters for Chapter 4.

Parabellum is a fun romp and continues the Greek/pulp mythology set up in John Wick: Chapter 2. In future installments, Stahelski might want to tone down the campiness, otherwise the series will lunge into self-parody.

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum is everything fans of this franchise desired: brutal, bloody, long, loud, and beautifully choreographed fight sequences, accompanied by a decent story that explored, even more, the assassins’ world.