Chapter 3 picks up where Chapter 2 dropped. Reeves as Wick has been kicked out of the assassin club and has one hour until his life is forfeit. His friends who helped him also are being punished by "The High Table", a secret group who run the assassin club. Wick's plan is to go find the guy who is in charge and find out directly from him how to survive. The thinking is that if he shows the strength and will to get to the boss, he will show that it is worth leaving him alone and live in peace. Of course, it doesn't work out that way and in the end, Wick is right back where he started, but with a couple of more disgraced friends. This movie is exactly in line with the others in the series: brutal, bloody, constant. In this installment, it was so over the top that most people sat in the theater stunned. I noticed only 3 or 4 times where there was a collective chuckle or Oooh! Otherwise, it was a bludgeoning. My experience here was more Harlem Globetrotters. The action was so choreographed, that Wick clearly paused/moved in sync with his attackers to let them have the unnecessary upper hand in order to set up the next hit. The bad guys were the Washington Generals. They were the only guys in the world who thought that when Wick let them have a hit, that they had earned it. The problem is that as a viewer, I was an adult watching the Globetrotters/Generals and I could see behind the screen. The choreography is super effective for a first time viewer or kid. But it was either not slick enough, or was too slick, and I found myself watching mediocre dance instead of action.
2 stars (out of 5)
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