Art is Pain and Life is Suffering in John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum

He Knew the Rules, and He Broke Them John Wick Chapter 3, where do I start? I guess with where we left off since that’s exactly where this movie picks up. At the end of John Wick Chapter 2, our favorite hitman makes the idiotic decision to commit cardinal sin #1 and conducts business on Continental grounds. He murked out Santino D’Antonio right in front of Winston and a brand spanking new $14 million contract is put on his head, along with the feared label of excommunicado. This sets the stage for Chapter 3 to dig into the inner workings of the High Table, introduce some sensational new characters, expand on our established favorites, and send every killer with a pulse after the infamous one.

Chapter 3 literally starts off with John running through the streets of NYC with the same lacerations all over his money maker and the same dapper, bulletproof, all black, iconic suit. You might even consider him stuntin’ if he wasn’t half dead. Then again, a half-dead John Wick is still a pretty fly and lethal force to be reckoned with. So, we pick up during the 1 hour of getaway time that Winston so graciously bestowed upon the marksman. John’s house was blown up so he has no access to his cache of coins and weapons of homicidal destruction. He has to begrudgingly call in debts, and rely on last resorts if he wants to escape, or just make it out alive. Also, I really enjoyed the fact that the first person who tries his hand at getting that $14 million bounty is as formidable as any on…