I’ve seen and liked all the Wick movies, although the first was my fav, of course. This one wants to leave us with a bang, and the ending left me rather bitter for a moment… until I thought of John Wick and then I could see that this was the only freedom he could get, the only way he can be free and at peace. And he won. Which matters.
John wants his ring, his freedom. The Marquis has received by the 12 members of the Table full power to close Winston’s hotel. Meaning, the hotel is evacuated, then blown up. The Marquis says Winston has failed so he’s now excommunicated. And he kills his concierge Charon right in front of him.
All this after John went to kill the Elder. Now John goes to the Osaka Continental because the Director is a friend. Koji and his daugter Akira run it. He puts friendship and his rules above the Table, and his hotel is excommunicated as well. He fights them, but a lot more of them arrive. All the hotel staff joins the fight, including Akira and John. They’re looking for him.
There’s also Caine, a blind assassin who tried to refuse but he has a daughter, Mia, so e accepts to protect her. He was friends with John once, but now they have to fight.
John escapes but Caine kills Koji. Now Mr Nobody and his dog are hired as well to kill John. Winston tells John about the Marquis and John wants to kill him, but Winston says the right way is to challenge him officially and force him to free him. To be able to challenge him, he needs to be a part of a family again. Pyotr waas killed too because of what John did, so now John has to kill the man that killed Pyotr first. This big man is very hard to kill but once it’s done he’s again part of his Belarus family.
As his second, Winston delivers the challenge to the Marquis. John and the Marquis meet to talk about it, about the rules. At dawn, with duel guns, to the death.
The Marquis names Caine to fight for him, threatening his daughter quite clearly. He also raises the reward for John’shead to 26 millions, if they kill him before dawn.
So, before dawn, he gets run over something like 4 times, he crashes his car, he’s hit and he jumps off a window, he’s shot at… and of course he kills quite a lot of them.
Mr Nobody raises his price to 40 millions, and so does the reward.
Whey they get inside a building it starts looking like a videogame, clear one room then the next… and I was waiting for one scene and I got it. He fought Mr Nobody and was about to kill him but he saw that the Marquis’ man was about to kill the dog (Nobody’s dog), so instead John shot the man to save the dog and went away. Leaving Mr Nobody there with wide eyes.
The last two minutes, Caine helps him, and Mr Nobody too, briefly. At dawn, all three are there. John and Caine shoot twice, injuring each other, then the third shot. Caine shoots, John doesn’t, but he falls down. Badly hurt but alive, so the Marquis wants to finish him off. John has yet to shoot though, so he shoots the Marquis in the head. The Member of the Table that is present states that John is now free, that both Caine and his daughter are free, and Winston is good again and will have his hotel back.
John tellls Caine “you owe me one” and then he asks Winston “will you take me home?”.
He’s really too badly hurt this time. After a few steps, he stops, sits, thinks of his wife and falls down.
The next scene, Winston is in front of his grave, the Bowery King is there with his dog (John’s dog).
“Never thtought I’d see the day” he says.
John is buried next to his wife, with the words “loving husband” that he himself had chosen and told them both so.
John Wick is Keanu Reeves
the Bowerey King is Laurence Fishburne
Charon is Lance Reddick
Winston is Ian McShane
The Marquis is Bill Skarsgard
Caine is Donnie Yen
After the credits, Caine is finally going to his daughter, who he’s now finally free to approach, but Akira is walking towards him to kill him, since John didn’t.
We don’t know how it goes… (but seeing things like this, she’ll kill him and walk away)
It also says: “in memory of Lance Reddick
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