2019 · action · crime
John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum
Directed by Chad Stahelski2h 11m2019
Super-assassin John Wick returns with a $14 million price tag on his head and an army of bounty-hunting killers on his trail. After killing a member of the shadowy international assassin’s guild, the High Table, John Wick is excommunicado, but the world’s most ruthless hit men and women await his every turn.
Our read: John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum (2019) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded action · crime entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
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- extreme
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