Of all the blockbuster franchises you'll ever watch in life, "John Wick" is the one most likely to stretch out your suspension of disbelief to epic new proportions! Not only we're meant to accept that our titular hero miraculously remains unharmed while he annihilates hundreds of insignificant opponents, but we are also supposed to believe that half of New York City is a professional killer, and that the most powerful criminal organization of the world uses Commodore-64 monitors to spread messages.

I don't want to sound too much like an old and whiny sourpuss, but this franchise is collapsing like a fragile house of cards with each new entry. The little gimmicks and curiosities that still made the original intriguing (the coins, the Continental, Wick's network and language skills) have either led nowhere or turned out disappointingly. And I concur with some of the other reviewers around here who stated that director Chad Stahelski hasn't made any profession progress whatsoever since the first film. Quite the contrary, in fact, the fighting sequences only get longer & duller, and Stahelski doesn't seem to realize (or refuses to) that the viewer wants more plot and less karate kicks.

Chapter two ended with a reasonably promising cliffhanger. After shooting a member of the High Table in the face, moreover in the forbidden zone of the Continental Hotel, Wick is declared "excommunicado". Basically, this means everyone is allowed to kill him, and there's a price tag of $14,000,000 on his head. The premise leads to an entertaining first half hour, with creative and well-choreographed action sequences taking place in a library, a horses' stable, a weapons museum, and on motorcycles. After that, "Parabellum" becomes really preposterous and repetitive. Wick escapes to Casablanca, becomes involved in yet another vendetta over a dead dog, and discovers that one of the most influential members of the High Table lives like a hermit in the desert. Yeah, sure. Part three ends with a fall from such a massive height that even John Wick himself couldn't possibly survive... Right?