Review of John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019) by Kilr0Y — 20 May 2019

There is gratuitous violence, and then there is John Wick 3. I would have walked out if I were not there with my girlfriend. This movie is meant to desensitize its viewers against the most horrible violence imaginable.

Scenes are left in simply for the shock value at such incomprehensible gore. One is left with just a sick feeling of how so much death could be so glossed over in the movie. Personally, I couldn't keep watching as brains kept being sprayed all over the place for no reason other than to show it.

We are left wondering...even in a movie where our disbelief is suspended, how exactly could these people be so horribly incompetent? John Wick kills 150 people, and walks away without a second thought at any point.

About 50% of the dead could have easily killed Wick if they were even slightly competent or paying attention. By the end, characters practically break the fourth wall at glorifying Wick and passing up a free pass at having killed him.

What happened to the $15M bounty? Why haven't they pulled the trigger? How stupid do they think we are? By the end, they don't even bother to dance around the incompetence anymore...it is as though the dead went into it knowing that their sole purpose was to add to the body count.

We are told the killing is necessary because they are trying to kill Wick, but that ends up feeling like just a convenient excuse for 2 hours of pure, vacuous killing. The plot ends up feeling secondary, or tertiary even.

This movie is BAD. Extremely bad. The quality of the cinematography does not make up for the absolutely senseless and unnecessary vacuous violence. The first film had a "cool" feel to it with the violence being just one part of the overall picture.

By film #3, we are left with killing for the sake of showing killing. The cinematography does not make this movie an 8 out of 10, just like making a shiny, cool cigarette ad is not automatically quality film-making.

This movie is essentially one big, glossy, cool cigarette ad with nonstop killing. It is a completely empty vessel with senseless violence. This is precisely the kind of drivel that society should be ashamed to glorify.