JOHN WICK CHAPTER 3: PARABELLUM is just such a goddamn good time at the movies. Excellent supporting turns by Halle Berry and especially Mark Dascascos. Cecep Arif Rahman and Yayan Ruhian get great action and charming character bits. And Keanu is what a movie star should be.
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Things I especially like to see making a comeback in action movies: Shotguns. Characters who like fighting and sincerely respect enemy fighters. A gorgeously-designed set the movie allows you to soak in and appreciate *before the set is thoroughly and methodically destroyed.*
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One of my favorite things in JOHN WICK 3: if you've seen the trailer, you know Halle Berry has attack dogs, and there is an action scene where she goes all out using her attack dogs. I was not prepared for that scene to repeatedly *sucker-punch me with the attack dogs.*
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Like, okay -- this is the thing about a movie with attack dogs in a fight scene: How often do you see attack dogs in a fight scene? Not often, right? JOHN WICK 3 knows this. It knows that, if it uses the dogs sparingly, *your brain will half-forget the dogs are there.*
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The little quirk of unfamiliarity makes the dogs *insanely cinematically effective.* The dogs come on, brutally take somebody down, do a couple quick bits, and then it's back to Berry and Keanu doing gun-fu ...for just long enough for your brain to half-forget the dogs
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at which point the dogs FUCK SOMEBODY UP and you jump in your seat because WHERE THE HELL DID-- oh that's right there are attack dogs in this fight scene, how did I forget that and then it's back to gun-fu and you half-forget about the dogs *again* THIS. KEEPS. WORKING.
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The most impressive dog bit in the movie isn't anything Berry's dogs do, though. There's a scene early on where Keanu is running in the rain, and John Wick's pibble is running beside him. *They got a pibble to go out in the rain, guys.* How the living hell did they do that?
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"OMG I AM RUNNING WITH KEANU"
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