10 Things That Make No Sense About John Wick Chapter 3 – Parabellum
10 Things That Make No Sense About John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum
The John Wick franchise revels in its ridiculousness—which is what we love about it—but with that comes a lot of stuff that makes no sense at all.
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The John Wick saga has come a long way since Wick returned to the world of assassination after retirement. The emotional connection with dogs has been traded in for dense lore of the hitman hotel— The Continental— and the series has become a bi-annual globe trotting affair.
But with all of its fascinating world building and seemingly ad-hoc storytelling, holes in the narrative have become abundantly clear, and that is no more true than in John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. In between the knife throwing, using horses as weapons, snapping a giant’s neck with a book, and two of Hollywood’s most badass dogs, there are some concerning moments that just don’t add up.
10 Everybody’s An Assassin
As hinted at at the end of John Wick: Chapter 2 after a hit has been put on Wick’s head for $14 million, there are a lot of assassins in New York. Not only are there a lot, but it seems like anybody with a cellphone is pretty good at wielding a knife, as almost everybody on-screen gets the message from the high table about Wick being excommunicado.
However, one of these John Wick fan theories makes total sense of the fact that almost one in two civilians are assassins, but whether it’s true or not remains to be seen.
9 Running To Times Square
Not only is Wick one of Hollywood’s best contract killers, but he has seemingly turned into an athlete that could outrun Mo Farah. Strapped for time, Wick runs from Central Park to Times Square within about 30 minutes, and if that wasn’t already ridiculous enough, he then gets a taxi instead of running the extra ten minutes it’d take to get to his destination: the New York Public Library. And when he does get a taxi, it’s in the middle of rush hour, which would have taken much longer.
8 The Knife Shop/Museum
When Wick is being chased down by a group of assassins, he runs through a strange store that sells chandeliers, and as he runs in to the back and up the stairs, he finds himself in a room full of knives and swords encased behind glass. This place raises so many questions, such as how did Wick of all people just randomly stumble in to the place, why was this place unguarded with the door unlocked and completely empty, and why is it above a chandelier store.
The whole scene is bizarre, and just to add more strangeness, the place looks more like a museum than a store. Though it doesn’t make a bit of sense, it is still one of the best scenes in the John Wick franchise.
7 No Guns
With every assassin in the world rearing their heads out of the woodwork to try and win that $14 million payout, it’d make sense to use the safest precautions to take out Wick, as he is known to be the deadliest assassin in the world. However, whenever Wick doesn’t have access to guns and ammo, his opponents’ weapons of choice are conveniently knives. Even when his enemies have guns, they prefer to use knives, or even straight up hand to hand combat.
6 The Weird Mystical Desert Quest
This strange sequence seems like something pulled straight out of a Fast & Furious movie, as Wick gets stranded in the desert of Casablanca— in his suit no less— and walks for miles up sand dunes only to be found be a rogue man on a camel. And, of course, the man turns out to be a member of the high table.
After doing that to prove his worth, and then getting his finger sliced off to also prove his worth, Wick is still demanded to carry out the assassination of Winston, to…again, prove his worth. The whole sequence is completely senseless, but there are some fun hidden details about their costumes in Casablanca.
5 The Grand Central Station Stabbings
John Wick and a bunch of stab-happy assassins aren’t remotely subtle about their almost competitive stab-off, and this is in the public eye, as commuters are casually going about their day literally inches from where people are murdering each other. Whether or not they are actively turning a blind eye or just don’t have any peripheral vision, the civilians’ ignorance is so strange, as at one point they are almost literally stepping over dead bodies.
4 Assassins Constantly Find Wick
As Wick is on the run for the whole movie, there is rarely a moment when he’s sitting or standing still. The movie is such a kinetic thrill ride, as there is always someone chasing him. But that begs the question, how does Wick keep getting tracked down?
New York is such a giant place and the hitman doesn’t have any kind of tracker on him, so he could literally just rent a studio apartment anywhere and stay put. He is even found by an assassin in the quietist room of the library.
3 The Bulletproof Glass
In one of the final fights in the movie, on the top floor of The Continental with all of its so-called bullet proof glass walls, Wick gets launched through them not once, not twice, but eight times. With glass that can supposedly withstand hundreds of bullets, how is it that a human body can make it not just crack, but completely shatter?
And though it was one of the greatest moments of the movie, after being thrown through them, there’s no way any human being wouldn’t have suffered a major concussion— but Wick just gets up and brushes the glass off him.
2 So Many Favors
Markers in John Wick are used as a handy piece of deus ex machina when the situation calls for it, a niffy little prop that will get Wick out of trouble. But in Parabellum, the markers are used so often that it calls in to question how many of these markers John actually has, and as the markers weren’t part of what he hid in the floor in the first John Wick, then where did he even get them from?
1 That Final Scene
With two hours of insane, exciting, hilarious, and outright nonsensical sequences, how else would the movie be expected to end other than to double down on it all? In an all or nothing situation, Winston shoots Wick three times in the chest, and then Wick falls about 150 feet from the top of The Continental in to the back alley, slamming his head on the concrete.
And against all odds but completely unsurprising at this point, Wick survives, only to vow his revenge on the High Table. Nobody on earth could have ever survived a fall like that, only John Wick, of course.
Link Source : https://screenrant.com/john-wick-chapter-3-parabellum-things-that-make-no-sense/
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