Nowhere near as good as the first

Rating: 5/10 (17 January 2020)

I just finished watch John Wick Chapter 3 - Parabellum and decided to look at the reviews for that movie on IMDb. It seems a lot of people on here loved Chapters 1 and 2 but said that this one had too much bland action and not enough story, and the story that is there seems contrived and just pointless. Now, let's just clear this up. All 3 movies had a very simple and contrived story that were just an excuse to watch John Wick kill a bunch of people. It's very obvious and I really had no problem with that. What I loved so much about the first one was how much John Wick was respected and revered. Even the mob boss whose son John was trying to kill had a lot of respect and fear of John Wick. None of that is here. Everyone in this underground world of hitmen has no problem trying to take on John Wick. No one is afraid of him. Also, I'm kind of on the fence about the action in both chapters 1 and 2. A lot of the action in all 3 movies seems a bit farfetched but at least in chapter 1 it was somewhat believable. Chapters 2 and 3 suffered from the same issue. There are scenes where John is surrounded by enemies, a lot of times enemies holding guns, yet he manages to kill every last one of them without getting shot or killed. There are times in this movie and especially in Chapter 3 where you can clearly see "bad guys" standing there waiting for John to finish fighting one of their comrades before they decide to try and shoot at him or try to kill him when, obviously in the real world, they would attack him while he's distracted by someone else. It just makes it really hard to believe and breaks the immersion. Overall, I think chapters 2 and 3 are entertaining but not very immersive.