For those who love the exploits of Mr Wick, here are five other films they should seek out. There’s a persuasive argument to be made that John Wick: Chapter 3, Mission Impossible: Fallout and Mad Max: Fury Road form a trilogy of perfect Hollywood action masterpieces – movies which may even rival Asia’s sterling work in the genre. ![]() The whole shebang culminates in a visceral over-extended last stand in which more mirrors are broken than in any film ever, one which leaves viewers feeling as beaten and exhausted as its titular character. Wick then follows this by killing his hunters by utilising all the artifacts of a weapons museum, a horse, a pack of vicious dogs trained by Halle Berry and special bullets which pierce kevlar vests. In the opening ten minutes, Reeves’ assassin murders a 7ft man with a book. The recently released John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum delivered on its predecessor’s finale, with a more bone-crunchingly brutal entry to the franchise. With a massive bounty on his head, it ended with our anti-hero getting ready to fight his way out of a New York where everyone wants him dead. ![]() ![]() It saw Keanu Reeves’ titular character – a legendary retired assassin forced back into the game – get excommunicado(ed?), John Wick lingo for being blacklisted from all the protection his crime world offered. One imagines a lot of this acclaim was for its incredible sequel tease stinger.
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