John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

If you've read my reviews of the first two John Wick movies, then you know what I'm gonna say here. The second one had a LITTLE more character development than the first, but not much. This one has a LITTLE more than that, and does expand the world some more, givng characters like Winston and The Concierge (does he have a name?) a little more to do. That's really the key with JW3: "a little more". None of the Wick movies are transformative from one to another; they're very much iterative. They find new and different ways to keep the action sequences different enough (the horse stable, the fight with him and Halle Berry and the dogs) to keep the individual movies feel fresh. But there's nothing groundbreaking about JW3. It refines, it gives you new locations, and it continues the story, but in the end, it's more of the John Wick movies. For some, I could see it getting long in the tooth. For me, there's just enough that's fresh for me to buy in on a John Wick 4 ... but I need to see some more growth, or the law of diminishing returns might be rearing its ugly head.