Though he’s got plenty of scars from the various knife wounds he received, the Bowery King is very much alive and now extremely angry. That’s because, shot though he was, John escapes and is brought to a surprising source: the not-at-all-dead Bowery King. But, of course, that’s not remotely true - when the Adjudicator goes to check John’s body, they find it missing. And then, in what appears to be a big shock, he shoots John twice and sends him over the roof of the hotel to what must be his death. Winston and the Adjudicator parlay on the roof of the hotel, with one twist: if Winston wants his own status restored, he has to get rid of John. Of course, John and Winston are victorious, or so it seems. But both John and Winston have plans of their own, holing up in the deserted Continental to take on the High Table and escape death. The Elder has a simple, devastating request: kill Winston, after which John’s status would be restored. Winston is given a week to vacate his hotel or die, but the Bowery King is seemingly slaughtered in his pigeon sanctuary for defying a demand to step down.Īnd at the film’s midpoint, John finds himself in front of the mysterious Elder (Said Taghmaoui) of the High Table, the assassin group that oversees all the murderers we’ve seen in these films. The Adjudicator is not judging John specifically instead, they judge the people who enabled John to go free, from Continental manager Winston (Ian McShane) to the Bowery King (Laurence Fishburne).
While John is getting into an extended number of bloody scrapes, there’s a separate plot running throughout Parabellum with a new character, an Adjudicator (Asia Kate Dillon). So, in Parabellum, he’s on the run, from New York to Morocco and back again. Now that John’s broken the rules, he’s marked for death with just an hour as a head start. In a fit of anger, John does the one thing he never should do: kill the mobster on the property of the Continental, an assassins-only hotel at which “business” is never conducted. In the second entry, the Italian mobster who had enabled John to get out of the life to begin with demands that our hero pay back the favor, only for John to learn that the mobster wanted John dead all along. When she dies, and the support dog she left behind for him is murdered, John goes on a rampage to avenge his loss. He had once been able to leave the business behind, settling down with his wife.
John Wick ( Keanu Reeves) is a mostly silent assassin, once known as the Baba Yaga/Boogeyman for his fearsome capabilities at murder most foul. The end of 2017’s John Wick: Chapter 2 sets up Parabellum quite nicely. But if the ending is any indication, we’ve at least got one more chapter to get through - in addition to a potential spinoff, which filmmaker Chad Stahelski has strongly hinted is set up in Chapter 3. You might wonder if this would be the final chapter in the series, if this would be a true trilogy. This weekend marked the arrival of the third entry, John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. The Marvel films similarly seem impossible to stop themselves even after Avengers: Endgame.īut even smaller-scale franchises likely won’t end after three titles. Even the Star Wars films, mostly composed of different trilogies, keep going because there’s an appetite for new entries.
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The days of a film series being a trilogy only are long gone. We live in the era of seemingly never-ending franchises and intellectual property.