OldBoy

so great fucking movie. more of the same and still fun as hell. i was giddily smiling the whole time. i did think and wish it was the end, but obviously not. so did Winston really turn on him at the end or did he know exactly where to shoot and that JW would survive the gruesome fall?

Maxflier

Loved the movie and thought it was the best of the 3 so far. I like how they keep adding layers like the adjudicator system.
The one thing I didn't care for was the desert part. The idea that the one person who sits above the high table is some dude sitting in a tent out in the middle of the desert seemed pretty stupid to me.

Why So Blu?

I did hate the adjudicator. She was so smug I kept hoping she'd get hers.

candyrocket786

From what I could see, Wick couldn't find the a working gun for the caliber bullet he had, so he just chambered the old Colt with it (which are ball/cap revolvers, unlike the Colt in Supernatural which was modified).

Yeah... that was was the point. I think we (and the characters) were meant to hate her since she represented the High Table.

slop101

They were all antique revolvers, and antique bullets and they didn't necessarily fit each other - that was the quickest way he could figure out if a bullet could be fired by the gun

Why So Blu?

I guess we'll have to await until he assembles his "avengers" for part 4 and takes The Table out.

OldBoy

did Winston screw him in the end or was it just made to look like so he can get his hotel and power back?

candyrocket786

I wonder if that will be the case, especially when you consider:

1. The number of other assassins that were Excommunicado on the chalkboard.
2. Sofia is probably on that list now.
3. I assume Cassian survived JW2. We don't know where his loyalties lie .
4. Jimmy.
5. Aurelio.
6. Ares (Ruby Rose) .
7. Zero (whom could still be alive) and the crew from the Raid (they lived) were big fans.
8. The Bowery King and his minions.

I'd just hate for the series to turn into Avengers: Endgame or John Wick : Featuring the Expendables

candyrocket786

It looked like John was taken by surprise with that move, but it's really hard to read Winston and gauge his intentions. For a moment, you sort of think he has ambitions to be the High Table.

Why So Blu?

It was hard to read Winston. At first I thought he used blanks and Wick was playing it up, but then that fucked up fall over the building squashed that notion.

Shannon Nutt

I admired the environmentalist in John - carrying that water bottle all the way across the desert instead of throwing it away.

The "Winston Question" is my biggest annoyance of the movie, and I'm guessing it was intentional. Were there really bullets in the gun, or was it some kind of pre-determined rouse by both of them? The fact that John fell off a freakin' building seems to say Winston turned on him, but the reaction of Winston later on in the movie to John being alive seems to say that maybe there's a plan in place.

I have to confess I was bothered by the fact that John lost a finger. You'd think he want to get his wedding ring back, right?

All I could think about after the movie was "Gee, it's going to cost more on CGI in John Wick 4 hiding that missing finger than it would if Keanu Reeves just cut it off in real-life!"

Dr. DVD

Caught this yesterday. Probably the best action movie since Fury Road, though it doesn't surpass it, at least IMO. Loved that they let Halle Berry be a complete bad ass and didn't try any love story route , in fact, she was pretty cold to Wick for the most part. They should have either hired a better actress for the Adjudicator or just had her remain silent. Was a bit confused concerning Winston's loyalties myself. I have no doubt the really shot Wick, but I think he knew he would survive the fall, hence he only shot him enough to knock him off the roof. I think he has a bigger plan in mind. Loved that the ending basically a reunion of Neo and Morpheus .

I also have to give props to this franchise for seemingly building a stronger audience with each installment. Neither of the first two opened at #1 (the first merely did okay opening weekend). I went to a 1:30PM showing of this and the theater was almost sold out, which for an R rated movie on a Saturday says something.

B5Erik

As much as I absolutely loved the first John Wick, and as much as I liked the last one, this one just seemed like more of the same. I actually got bored during a couple of the fight scenes. It just felt like, "Been there, done that."

I didn't dislike JW3, but I didn't love it, and I didn't like it a lot. It just seems like they're so concerned with topping the action scenes in the previous movies that they forgot that these are supposed to be actual characters, not just video game fighters. The plot in JW3 is paper thin, and the character development is non-existent. Even in Kill Bill 1 Tarantino managed to have a fair amount of character development amidst all the chaos and ultra violence.

John Wick, the original, worked so well because they invested time in the characters, especially John Wick. In this one, there is zero time spent developing the character. He's just desperately moving forward. That wasn't true in the first movie, and was less true in Part 2. There was character development in the 2nd JW. Not here.

And they really should have wrapped up the story here. That would have allowed them to do anything they wanted with JW4, rather than painting themselves into a corner as far as continuing the JW VS the High Table story (one that is getting old now).

Again, I didn't hate it, but it was disappointing. It should have been better.

Having said that, I loved Halle Berry in this one. She got the most character development time out of any character in the movie, and yet she still kicked some serious ass!

3 1/2 out of 5.

Deftones

I was meh on this until the final assault on the Continental. Once that happened, I think I would rank it above the 2nd one.

Dan

Someone on another forum mentioned that they saw a previous cut of the film that ended after the fall... no Bowery King / Wick scene. I wonder if that would have been a "better" ending... just to leave people guessing for a bit longer.

Draven

Eh, I think "settling" it in this movie is better. Otherwise it looks like he's dead dead and then he comes back for the sequel.

I'm still thinking about the knife fight at the beginning. Wick chucking the axe from across the room to end it was one of my favorite action movie moments of all time. The only problem is it happens so early in the movie that it was never topped for me. Ah well.

Decker

Hey that scene with all the guys in the underground rooms with guns getting killed by the ninjas/sushi chefs, were they the Bowery guys? It happened right before they caught up with the Bowery King, so I assumed so; before that cut I had no idea who was getting murdered there.

Decker

And not to be THAT GUY, but while I really enjoyed the film for what it was, as non-stop action, I did keep coming back to the same thought :
What the heck are we doing here? John Wick literally accomplishes nothing and just hurts all those who try to help him. Why are we even doing this?

Believe me I didn't want to have that thought. but in the end, what was achieved? Lots of bad guys get killed, sure. But not to protect or for the benefit of anyone except John Wick, who ends up in exactly the same amount of mortal danger that he started in, minus only one left ring finger.

I hope we get some resolution in the next one for God's sake.

dhmac

I think that scene was a total homage to a scene in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly in which Tuco takes apart some guns in a gun shop to assemble his own superior gun from the parts. (He even does that listen to the click-click-click next to his ear bit.)

Here's a clip of that scene:

rennervision

I feel like Winston's "dumb act" when the Adjudicator told him Wick was gone pretty much reveals the whole thing was a performance.

Thanks. I was trying to remember when I saw someone do that before.

Decker

So I guess nobody disagrees with my assertion that John Wick accomplishes literally nothing in the course of this movie?

I was thinking back on it : He risks his life to get a ballet teacher to "punch his ticket" so he can travel all the way to Morocco. Then calls in a huge favor with Halley Berry, gets taken to see somebody important to ask to speak to someone in the High Table, Fights for his life again, killing dozens, just so he can walk unaided into the desert, so he can almost die, so he can be rescued and brought to a High Table member, so he can pledge his loyalty and cut off his own finger to show his devotion, so he can be offered a chance to cancel his contract and continue to live -- as an assassin, so he can return to NYC and....refuse to do what was just assigned of him, so he can be back to exactly where he was before going into the ballet theater -- minus a finger?

Draven

Decker

Sure. But he refused to kill Winston, so it was like nothing was accomplished, and that was entirely Wick's choice.

Dan

Shannon Nutt

Kind of the point...and one of the reasons John is so pissed at the end.