John Wick 3 - Parabellum

Keanu Reeves's bravura sequel pushes him - and the premise - to the limit

John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum takes its title from the Latin "para bellum" ("prepare for war"), for which thanks are due to an obscure 4th century Roman author called Vegetius, notching up probably his first lip service in bone-crunching action cinema. In contracted form, "Parabellum" also denotes a brand of World War I machine gun; a Luger pistol; a French punk rock group, a Colombian heavy metal one; and a Russian one that achieved brief fame in 2010's Eurovision. Keanu Reeves doesn't use all of the above to tick off kills in his lavish capper to the Wick trilogy, but he's rarely short of deafening firearms. [...]

di Tim Robey, articolo completo (5389 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Daily Telegraph 16 maggio 2019