John Wick: Chapter 3 -- Parabellum

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.

Choreography is all that's on offer here. The increasingly convoluted fight scenes turn into lifeless spectacle in this ugly franchise.

Superior exercises in action-movie formalism, the John Wick movies evoke everything from Fritz Lang's silent thrillers to Gene Kelly's musicals...

It's rather like when Bond films went from Sean Connery to Roger Moore. Plenty of people will find this copacetic. A few will grouse about what's been lost: a touch of the real amid the merely fantastic.

[I]t's a fun, entertaining romp that knows it's ridiculous from the moment that Wick takes out a towering 7-footer (the Philadelphia 76ers' Boban Marjanović) by beating him to death in a library with a book.

While "John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum" is an easy movie to recommend, it must be added that it's a hard movie to love.

Parabellum is exactly what you want in both a summer action film and a John Wick film. It's also the beginning of the series' gradual accent into controlled ridiculousness, the same fantastic way that the Fast & Furious franchise did.

This new installment in the John Wick universe, directed once again by Chad Stahelski, has enough adrenaline to knock me out of my seat for two hours that travels as fast as a bullet. [Full review in Spanish]

Few, if any, franchise has objectified its central figure so gloriously, so effectively, as to make a statement about human form itself.

Like Mad Max: Fury Road, which was essentially a two-hour car chase, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum is an adrenaline soaked two-hour fight sequence that somehow manages to top what we witnessed in Chapter 2.