John Wick 3 movie review (2019)- by Angry Movie Review

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Hey, guys, we just got back from an early screening of John Wick, three para bellum, which I don’t know, I guess maybe Lionsgate is extending the olive branch. I don’t fucking know unless this guy claimed. I have no idea. It was just a PR company that that extended it to us. So we got to see it early. And obviously, these are our opinions of it. What did you guys think?

The action was a fucking amazing.

Yeah, yeah. It was basically two hours of bad ass fights with no breaks.

You remember how in that Game of Thrones behind the scenes, they say, well, you know, we didn’t want to do two hours of battle because that would be an incredibly boring thing. And so we had to vary it up.

This film is basically that what they thought would be boring and it isn’t boring. It is non-stop action for two hours. Every fight better than the last. Well, I mean, if you order basically within the first 30 minutes, the fights in John Wick three eclipse the fights and John Wick one and two. It’s a natural progression, in my opinion. Now, they might not have the same impact, even though there was a lot to lose. Never mind. I remember that back. There’s it definitely has impact still. But I want to say one thing. I was under the impression that this was going to be the conclusion to the series. See, I did, too. Why? I don’t know.

I thought maybe I read something or maybe I was like, you know, OK, you got the dog story, then you got it gets bigger. And then he’s got to fight the biggest and then we’re done. I thought, this is not the end.

You know, they said that as long as people enjoy their movies, I think they’re going to continue to make them.

Oh, see, I thought this was the end because like 3R, that’s a good stopping point of view. You start getting to like four or five.

Now you just get to read about what about Rocky, right. Well, what I was thinking here is that this film may be like the only way I could accept a number four was if this film was split into two films.

And that’s what we’re getting and maybe we’ll see a fourth. But basically what I’m saying is don’t walk into this film expecting it to be the conclusion to the series that for some reason me and Joe thought would be and Alex was over there having fun, knowing that it’s just another one was I was having fun. Another installment. So did that take away from your enjoyment of the film, Joe, and which did not. It did not. OK, and did it take away or add to your enjoyment of the film knowing that this wasn’t going to be the end?

I didn’t actually think about it like during when I was watching the movie. I mean, I did it maybe the last five minutes, just like, oh, what’s going to happen? And they, you know, they kind of tease towards that. They could do more with with John Wick.

So, um, John Wick, it basically opens up exactly how you hope it would. It opens up where he is excommunicates. They implement the excommunicates and all hell breaks loose right away. You know, he’s he’s on the run. He’s fighting one group and he’s fighting another group before he can catch his breath and he maybe catches his breath for a second that he fights a third group and a fourth group and is like, holy shit, how is he going to keep up the fight scenes?

The Coria choreography and the way he uses the elements around him is worth the take it alone.

Oh, yeah, alone.

I’d say the fight in the ancient weapons store or this weapons museum store is worth the price of admission.

Oh, for sure. I think that the I think that the first act was incredible. I thought the second act was pretty damn good. The third I kind of let me down a little bit. I was getting to the point where there was some things that and I am fully invested in the John Wick universe. Loved John McKewon Ten out of ten for me, which I don’t give a lot of turns out. So John McCain is a ten out of ten. Yeah, John Wick two for me is like an eight out of ten still bought in. And this one like feels like it naturally follows through. But even for someone who has bought in to the universe, as I am towards the end of this film, like, ah, all right. Like this, this is a little beyond what I’m willing to buy. So I think this one I mean, if you if you liked any of the other ones, this is a definitely one that you should go see.

Now, is this a film that you can go and see if you know that at all? Wow. Look at that reaction.

Well, so and it’s not that it’s not good, but I was kind of I was explaining to I think you that the John Wick universe kind of feels like a hot tub and that’s rising in temperature. Right. So if you get in at the beginning, you’re comfortable and then it gets it goes up a notch and then it goes up a notch and it goes up. And if you jump in right now at John Wick three without having to go out there, you immediately just jump out and go, nope, that’s too hot.

Your suspension of disbelief will be stressed out. All the juicy lord. That’s right. And you might think John’s a little bit of a dick or a little bit too aggressive, but you have to. You have to go through the previous two movies to understand at least the first one, his state of mind.

Yeah, and by now, to be perfectly honest, they are fucking superheroes. Oh, so if you were like, that’s not a good way to put it. But they are superheroes. I don’t know. I have to curse sometimes. All right. I’m sorry about that. But they’re basically superheroes at this point.

And if you like all the amazing fights of, you know, the brawler style Captain America, you’re into a lot of the superhero fights. You’re getting that nonstop for two hours straight, one fight after the other with barely any story in between this.

This is literally a story about Jon on the run, Jon fighting every fucking thing that they can throw at him.

And then how does he resolve this situation? That seems like an unwinnable situation with these, you know, the Continental and the the Assassins Guild or whatever they call it. They call, I guess, the table or whatever that are sending assassins after him.

And it is very gratifying. And like Alec said, first act is so good it starts you ride off, second act, you get some more battles. You get Halle Berry’s character that’s introduced. Joe, what did you think about Haileybury?

Because me and complained a little bit about Allie Berry in the trailer. I thought I was going to hate Howie because that’s what we wound up happening. Here’s where I disagree with Alec.

Second half for me kind of felt kind of pointless, but her and her fighting scenes were fucking amazing.

So she convinced you she earned. Oh, she is a badass. She put in the word dog so fucking put in the work. She looked like she trained just as much as Keanu Reeves. I loved the dog dynamic. Oh, yeah. I love how this film, this film harkens back. I mean, these are people and choreographers and action set designers and things like that that are at the height. I think this is the height.

You know, they remind me of when Jackie Chan was using a lot of his surroundings. You use a lot of creative surroundings here. There’s a scene in particular where John goes to a horse. There’s a bunch of horses in this, like, sort of ranch.

And yeah, he managed boiler’s.

We we’ll talk about it. He manages to use his surroundings in interesting ways.

And man, there were so many times that they interrupted and oohs and ahs. But yeah, by the third act, I think that’s where it slows down a little bit. And I think maybe because a lot of people, a lot of us at least, I expected a conclusion. And while we do get to see sort of the height, OK, we get to we get to obviously there’s a lot of law to the world that’s remained hidden and a lot of that law is peeled away here. And you’re actually starting to put faces with some of these shadowy figures that’s been in in in the shadows.

And for me, it sort of takes away from it a little bit. When you look at the guy and you’re like, man, that guy, why he’s that person. This be a little bit more operatic.

Operatic. You know what I’m trying to say a little bit more impressive. And so it’s a it’s a small let down in that seeing some of the behind the scenes stuff and the inner workings of this shadowy organization.

And then finally, the conclusion, which is not a conclusion at all.

And it just feels like here we go. Yeah, we got it. We got another we got to go another sequel.

But I was coming in fully expecting to have a finished story. And if that was the case, I would have given this a ten out of ten. But because of the fact that we we peeled away some of the layers of mystery and we’re actually putting faces with the mystery and that has the potential to disappoint. Combined with the the ending, which is not really an ending, puts a damper on an otherwise amazing film where the action is heightened and it does ramp up what we’ve seen, John, with one John Wick to John Wick three is it’s going in the right direction.

Yes. I didn’t have a problem with I guess it was expectations because I didn’t expect this to be the final one. So I didn’t have a problem in the third act thinking that they were going to wrap everything up. How are they going to wrap all these things up?

The station was screwed up because I was like, OK, we’ve got this many minutes left, what’s going on here? And and that was making me feel like I was not satisfied.

It was the fight. It was some of the fight scenes towards the end that just got to the point where they they were too much for. They stretched my suspension of disbelief to the beyond the breaking point to the point, which is like, I don’t I don’t buy it. Like if you are an assassin trying to kill the greatest, the boogey man, you’re going to screw around. You’re not going to, like, bow to him in the middle of a fight. You’re not going to do all these things. So that these trappy kind of things that got thrown in at the end of the film and I think that they were just jumped at the opportunity, but they did some and they did it over and over and over again where they had opportunities. And I just I didn’t like it. You agree with that, Joe?

Yeah. I also like the main bad guy. What does he mean, bad guy?

Chairman Cogo, who’s chairman, he was the the guy he was the nephew of the original chairman Coga from Iron Chef. And then when they did, she said. And then when they did to Iron Chef America, he was like his nephew or something.

And he got a shelf in the freezer. Sky News, like the sky looks so fucking familiar. Yeah, I remember him from the movie Double Dragon.

He’s like, Oh yeah, Jimmy. Holy shit. Do you. Yeah. Here though. Yeah, that’s right. But he’s a great martial artist too. And you obviously martial artist. He’s a great personality in this.

I didn’t, I liked him too, but I didn’t feel like he was an ultimate threat. I didn’t feel that ultimate threat. I felt like they’re trying to put him on the level it has. Nobody’s on the level, John Wick. And that’s why I disagree a little bit with Alex when he’s talking about the choppiness and the assassins and you don’t. I actually get what they’re doing because they have so much respect for John. Not there are people in this film that are out to fucking murder, John. They don’t give a fuck. And then there are people out that are on a different echelon level that that people respect them, they respect John, and then they fight. And then there are moments where they could kill each other and they don’t and then they continue fighting. And so you have a little bit of a wait. Why are you could have just.

But that is that is muchI there. That is like I like straight fights in a row in the third act where they did that though. And that’s the problem. That’s the you know, there was two dudes.

Well we just said, yeah, a couple of times. OK, sure.

Minimum minimum five. I counted them and their minimum five in a row where the bad guys can kill John Wick.

Yeah. Yeah. For fifteen million dollars and they don’t. Right.

All right. Well let’s go to final verdicts then.

Um, for me, I love the fighting. I love the acting. We got my boy Jimmy back from Double Dragon, but the second half, like I just felt kind of pointless to me, like the desert scene and all that could have just been some of that could have been clipped out. And just you felt it was a little too long. Yeah, it was two to twenty. Twenty. Yeah, it’s been a little bit shorter. Um, I’m going to have to give this probably like an eight and eight out of ten for me. Wow. Yeah.

Because that’s real. That’s good though. Maybe we gave John Wick to a ten that you gave, we gave John Wick to a ten out of ten but that was from our days when we were excitable. And we’re trying to be more or no longer excitable because honestly, there’s some plots that I can’t really say here.

But OK, we’ll talk about it. Why did you do this?

Ok, that was a pointless scene eight out of ten, because some of your suspension of disbelief was stressed and the second half of the film was was was getting a little slow.

Alex, I’m also going to go with an eight. I think that the action, especially in the first to the first two acts, were so good that this it’s worth the price of admission alone. The story I actually liked the almost all of the story start to finish. The problem I had with it was the believability in some of the fights, some of the stop and go where, you know, they’re holding a knife to his neck and then they’re not killing. And then it just so that’s why it loses a couple of points. But I think just just go for the first hour and a half and then you’ll absolutely love this film. But there’s I mean, it gets an extra point for me because I’m super biased and I love John Wick one. I really liked John Wick, too, and I really like this one, too. So it goes to an eighteen. To an eight when you get an extra point. Wow.

I mean, it’s so sad. I know you guys really disagree with these guys immensely because I enjoyed the film a lot more than them.

Now, I did give John Wick one a ten out of ten if I didn’t review it in on our review.

It’s still a ten out of Santa John Wick two. Is it ten out of ten. But I think maybe if I were to rereview, it would probably be something like a nine. But I’m gonna stick with the ten out of ten. This one here, though, is during that first act, you’re like this is on a trajectory for eleven, it goes to eleven because the fights are better than we’ve seen in the original.

And in the second one, there are some fights that take it to a great dimension. But then you’re right, in the third act they start to recycle some. In fact, they almost recycle a thing that they used in John Wick to a certain set location, which is like, wait a minute, there’s there’s lots of glass.

There’s lots of deception here. They kind of reciters like. Did you forget you kind of already use this and they have different characters. Now, while I like some of the characters in here, we even get an appearance from Brian from Game of Thrones shows up at some point. Right. Is that let’s say he looked a little skin. I, me, but it looked like the run from Game of Thrones, I liked his scene and I like the action that results from his scene. So I think this this is a nine out of.

And I have to sort of adjust my expectations because I don’t want the fact that I thought it was the final chapter to completely ruin my rating, if so, then I would have probably rated it lower.

But when I’m looking at it as a complete and satisfying, gratifying story, is it that for the first act, for the second act, for me, it was the third act and the conclusion drops a little bit, but still overall a fantastic film with action at the height of everybody’s skill level. I mean, you can tell everybody puts in the work.

Keanu, Halle Berry really earned place on people that it those people did dogs and dog trainers, dogs.

We finally get to see some action from a certain character who’s been so stoic and, you know, servicing everybody.

He gets his moment to shine a little bit. So great film. One that we highly recommend. You go out. Go. Yeah. See if you haven’t watched John McCain or to buy your ticket for this one, then watch John McCain, then John Wick, too, and then immediately go into this one and enjoy it. Fine. Find hopefully your heart doesn’t explode because. Because this yeah. This shit I mean, so much adrenaline. There might have been. And where Joe says maybe they could have took out the desert scene. I like the desert. I like this too. He’s wrong. I want to see the behind the scenes. We’ll talk about that instead.

But there was like maybe one fight somewhere that you can remove, whether it be the motorcycles or. I know I like that, too. I think it was probably one of the mirrors, the the mirror scenes. Yeah.

All right. Anyways, so nine out of ten. Thank you guys so much for watching if you don’t want any spoilers.

And here we’re about to talk spoilers. Thank you so much. We’ll see you on the next. Angry Joshua. Bye, guys.