John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum Review: 8 Ups & 2 Downs

1. It ALMOST Gets A Little Too Silly

One of the biggest complaints about the second John Wick is that it took the relative grit and simplicity of the first film and cast it aside in favour of more convoluted storytelling - especially during John's final confrontation with Winston (Ian McShane) in the park.

And to an extent this is a through-line which continues in the third film, where you really just need to embrace the absurdity and go along for the ride, or risk getting caught in a cycle of nit-picking.

There's one moment in particular that might strike even permissive audiences as a little too daft: a sequence set in Grand Central Station sees people dying while the general public simply walks past them without a care in the world.

Is this a commentary on the stereotypical coldness of New Yorkers, or just lazy storytelling?

Either way, it's a distracting beat in a film that otherwise does a great job not asking the audience to question its internal logic too much. And with that said, here's everything John Wick: Chapter 3 gets so, so right...