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Published 17:00 10 May 2019 BST
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If there is a complaint to be made against John Wick 3, it's that it can sometimes less a film, more just a loose thread to hang all the set-pieces on. But that's basically the point. Everything is dripping with style. The thunderous downpour in Times Square. The sweltering Morroco backstreets. The aforementioned wandering around the desert in an immaculate suit. Wonderful actors like Anjelica Huston, Laurence Fishburn, Halle Berry, and of course, Ian McShane, turn up to deliver spectacular nonsense monologues between shoot-outs, then disappear. The film is just so much damn fun.
It is again helmed by former stuntman-turned-director (and Keanu's stunt-double on The Matrix) Chad Stahelski, who has always choreographed wonderful action - but here he puts together maybe the greatest team of henchman ever assembled to handle the fights. Headed up by DTV icon and IRL kung fu champion Mark Dacascos, they include The Raid's Yayan Ruhian, 7ft 3 basketball star Boban Marjanović, and Keanu Reeves' own martial arts teacher Tiger Chen.
Of course though, at the centre of it all, is Keanu. He is maybe the first proper movie star we've had since Wesley Snipes in his prime to truly feel like a real martial artist on screen. Thanks to the series' trademark long takes, you can tell that it really is Keanu doing most of the fights, not a stunt double doing the hard work while he sits in his trailer tweeting.
The airhead Keanu of old, the one we thought was just playing himself in Bill & Ted, who stumbled through the pseudo-intellectual gibberish of The Matrix sequels and 'Woah'-ed his way through Point Break, has now truly been replaced by a grizzled icon. A simple man who just wants his car and his dog, and now those are gone, he doesn't care who he fucks up.
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John Wick 3 is just such a blast. It is a movie that just keeps moving forward with thunderous momentum, constantly throwing things out. Why do these assassins have a Michelin-starred sushi bar hidden in a dank food truck? No time to think about that, John Wick is now killing dudes in by having a horse kick them in the face, and now he's riding that horse on a chase through New York. John Wick 3 might not really stand up to heavy scrutiny, but it is pure cinema.
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