John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Dvd

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (also known as simply John Wick 3) is a 2019 American neo-noir action thriller film starring Keanu Reeves as the eponymous character. It is the third installment in the John Wick film series, following John Wick (2014) and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017). The film is directed by Chad Stahelski and written by Derek Kolstad, Shay Hatten, Chris Collins, and Marc Abrams, based on a story by Kolstad. It also stars Halle Berry, Laurence Fishburne, Mark Dacascos, Asia Kate Dillon, Lance Reddick, Anjelica Huston, and Ian McShane. In the film, which picks up minutes after the end of the previous film, ex-hitman John Wick finds himself on the run from legions of assassins after a $14 million contract is put on his head due to his recent actions.

The third installment was announced in June 2017. Much of the returning cast and crew was confirmed in February 2018, with new members joining that May. Filming began that month and lasted through November, taking place in New York City, Montreal, and Morocco.

Parabellum was theatrically released in the United States on May 17, 2019, by Lionsgate. It grossed $326 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of the franchise in just 10 days, and received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the action sequences, visual style, and Reeves’s performance. A sequel, John Wick: Chapter 4, is set to be released on May 27, 2022.

Plot

Less than an hour after the events of the second film, John Wick is now a marked man on the run in Manhattan. Before he is labeled “excommunicado” as a result of his unauthorized killing of High Table member Santino D’Antonio inside the New York Continental, Wick travels to the New York Public Library and retrieves two concealed items – a “marker” medallion and a crucifix – but is injured following a fight with a giant assassin named Ernest. Wick seeks medical treatment from an underworld doctor, but his excommunicado begins before the doctor can finish. Wick finishes patching his injury and, upon the doctor’s request, shoots him twice to suggest he put up a fight, thus protecting him from the High Table. Upon leaving the doctor’s office, John is found by a gang whom he kills in an antique weaponry store.

John meets with the Director, the head of the Ruska Roma. John presents the crucifix and requests her help in arranging safe passage to Casablanca. The Director reluctantly helps – as John is a former protégé and is from Belarus – knowing that this act will violate her peace treaty with the High Table. An Adjudicator of the High Table meets with Winston, the manager of the New York Continental, and the Bowery King, the leader of a network of vagrants. The Adjudicator punishes both for helping John, giving them seven days to resign their positions, and hires Zero, a Japanese ninja, as an enforcer. Zero and his students find the Director, slaughtering her guards and stabbing her hands as punishment for helping John.

In Casablanca, John meets Sofia, a former friend and the manager of the Moroccan Continental. John presents her marker (from aiding her daughter) and requests to be directed to the Elder, the only person above the High Table. Sofia takes John to Berrada, her former boss, who tells John he may find the Elder by wandering through the desert until he cannot walk any longer. In exchange, Berrada asks for one of Sofia’s dogs. When Sofia refuses, he shoots the dog, which is saved by a bullet-proof vest. In retaliation, Sofia tries to kill Berrada, but she only wounds him at John’s warning. The two fight their way out of the kasbah and drive into the desert, where she leaves him.

The Adjudicator and Zero confront the Bowery King, who refuses to abdicate his position. In response, Zero’s students slaughter the Bowery King’s henchmen while Zero cuts him seven times with a wakizashi as “penance”.

Collapsing in the desert, John is brought to the Elder and states that he is desperate to live to “earn” the memory of the love he once had with his wife. The Elder agrees to forgive Wick on the condition that he assassinates Winston and keeps working for the High Table until his death. To show his commitment, John severs his ring finger and offers his wedding ring to the Elder. John returns to New York City and is attacked by Zero and his students before reaching the protection of the Continental. John meets with Winston, who encourages John not to die as a killer but as a man who loved and was loved by his wife.

The Adjudicator arrives, but Winston refuses to resign his position and John refuses to kill him, leading the Adjudicator to “deconsecrate” the NY Continental, revoking its “neutral ground” status. The Adjudicator notifies Zero and sends heavily armed and armored enforcers to kill John and Winston. Winston decides to defend the hotel by furnishing John with weapons and the assistance of Charon and his staff. After killing the High Table enforcers, John is ambushed by Zero and his students, and John proceeds to kill all but the two students who were respectful towards him. John then confronts and fatally wounds Zero.

The Adjudicator agrees to a parley with Winston, who explains his rebellion as a “show of strength” and offers fealty to the High Table. After John arrives, the Adjudicator questions what should be done with him. Winston shoots John repeatedly, leading him to fall from the roof of the hotel. The Continental is “reconsecrated,” but the Adjudicator informs Winston that John’s body has disappeared, and that he remains a threat to them both. A seriously injured John and his dog are delivered to a now badly-scarred Bowery King, who voices his anger with the High Table and asks John if he is angry as well. The film ends with John replying “Yeah.”

Cast

Keanu Reeves as John Wick
Halle Berry as Sofia, an ex-assassin, former friend of John and the manager of the Continental Hotel in Casablanca.
Ian McShane as Winston
Laurence Fishburne as the Bowery King
Mark Dacascos as Zero
Asia Kate Dillon as the Adjudicator
Lance Reddick as Charon, the concierge at the Continental Hotel in New York
Tobias Segal as Earl
Anjelica Huston as the Director
Saïd Taghmaoui as the Elder
Jerome Flynn as Berrada
Randall Duk Kim as the Doctor. Duk Kim reprised his role from the first film.
Margaret Daly as Operator
Robin Lord Taylor as Administrator
Susan Blommaert as Librarian
Jason Mantzoukas as Tick Tock Man, one of the Bowery King’s men
Cecep Arif Rahman as Shinobi 1, one of Zero’s pupils
Yayan Ruhian as Shinobi 2, another of Zero’s pupils
Roger Yuan as Huang, a Triad gang assassin (Uncredited)
Tiger Chen as Triad (Uncredited)
Boban Marjanović as Ernest