John Wick 3 is about as action heavy as you would expect for a plotline that’s essentially one man against a planet. It’s violent, stylised, and over the top. Totally and utterly bonkers to occasionally baffling degrees. So naturally I loved it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2024

I liked a lot of the film, and do even admire its over-stuffiness at times, and left curious by the choices made at the end of the film based on where it leaves the characters for Chapter 4.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 4, 2024

Parabellum is a fun romp and continues the Greek/pulp mythology set up in John Wick: Chapter 2. In future installments, Stahelski might want to tone down the campiness, otherwise the series will lunge into self-parody.

| Sep 21, 2023

John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum is everything fans of this franchise desired: brutal, bloody, long, loud, and beautifully choreographed fight sequences, accompanied by a decent story that explored, even more, the assassins’ world.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 24, 2023

This film is about the consequences of breaking High Table rules and there's something comical about a man in a black suit and narrow tie roaming Casablanca. For action fans and dog lovers, the scenes with Halle Berry and the Malinois are exceptional.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2023

“Parabellum” is an old-school action-lover’s dream, with a body count that easily rivals anything put up by Schwarzenegger or Stallone in the 1980’s. Yet it’s loaded with style and character.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 22, 2022

John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum puts its stamp on what is the best action franchise of the past 20 years.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 20, 2022

The action scenes in this series keep the viewer invested, whereas our interest in the ever-expanding mythology and personal motivations of Wick have thinned over two sequels.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 3, 2022

"The film moves the franchise and genre forward and manages to find new ways to kill bad guys."

| Feb 12, 2022

This might be the defining action movie of the year.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Sep 4, 2021

Awe-inspiring.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 15, 2021

These films are an amazing example of how attention to detail that other franchise would overlook creates a more richly realized fictional world.

| Jul 30, 2021

Fans want to see top-flight, hand-to-hand combat mixing marshal arts skills with impressive and inventive weaponry. Wick delivers.

| Jul 23, 2021

Parabellum marks the most diverse entry into the John Wick franchise yet.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 2, 2021

The third chapter in the John Wick series shows the toll a story can take once filmmakers have to stretch it out beyond its natural ending. A series that was once praised for its simplicity is now too convoluted for its own good.

| Feb 18, 2021

You're clearly supposed to enjoy all the murder ... But I mostly just felt sad.

| Feb 8, 2021

A hoot that features some of the coolest fight scenes in movies right now despite its excesses.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 31, 2021

The stunts are consistently phenomenal, which is occasionally enough to distract from the silliness of the Continental and its exhaustive rules for murderers.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 7, 2020

When a bruised and bloodied Keanu Reeves rides through a rain-lashed, neon-lit New York atop a literal dark horse to fight motorbike-riding fellow assassins, it's as brilliantly ludicrous as you've come to expect from the John Wick series.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 16, 2020

To call this a high-octane actioner is an understatement so stark it's like saying Mel Gibson is slightly problematic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2020